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SALTEnglishLitTest2
Preparation for English Lit Test 2
Question | Answer |
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What was the surname of the monarchs during this time? | Tudor |
Who produced the first printed version of the New Testament and began working on the Old Testament? | Tyndale |
Who put William Tyndale to death in 1536? | Henry VIII |
Who published the first printed version of the entire English Bible in 1535? | Coverdale |
Was Henry VIII Catholic or Protestant? | Protestant |
Who claimed himself the supreme head of the church? | Henry VIII |
Who became king when he was 9? | Edward |
Which king died at age 15? | Edward |
Which monarch tried to re-establish the Catholic Church? | Mary |
Which monarch persecuted many Protestant Christians? | Mary |
Which monarch established Protestantism? | Elizabeth |
Which monarch died in 1603? | Elizabeth |
Which monarch agreed with the Puritans? | King James I |
Which version of the Bible was published in 1611? | King James Version |
What is a "speech by a lone character on the stage"? | soliloquy |
What is "two rhyming lines which express a complete thought"? | couplet |
What are the two types of dramas? | tragedy and comedy |
What is a 14-lined poem? | sonnet |
Who was the founder of Italian sonnets? | Petrarch |
Which type of sonnet is made up of 3 quatrains and a couplet? | English |
For which type of poetry does this rhyme scheme apply: abab/cdcd/efef/gg | English sonnet |
Who wrote The Faerie Queene? | Edmund Spenser |
What literary term refers to symbolic meaning? | allegory |
Which character in The Faerie Queene represented Queen Elizabeth? | Gloriana |
In The Faerie Queene, who was represented by the Red Cross Knight? | King Arthur |
How many books did Edmund Spenser intend to write? | twelve |
What is the name of the villain in The Faerie Queene? | Error |
Who wrote Utopia? | Thomas More |
Who had 9 lines to every stanza of his poetry? | Edmund Spenser |
Definition: "the regular recurrence of sounds" | rhyme |
Definition: "the correspondence of sounds" | rhythm |
Who wrote The Book of Martyrs? | John Foxe |
Definition: "unrhymed iambic pentameter" | blank verse |
Which book contains the wedding vows that are often used in today's wedding ceremonies? | The Book of Common Prayer |
Who brought Doctor Faustus fire to warm his blood? | Mephistophilis |
Which character/speaker corresponds with the quote: "I have preached to you God's Word and truth, and am come this day to seal it with my blood" | Dr. Rowland Taylor |
Who was England's first essayist? | Francis Bacon |
Who was a personal advisor to Henry VIII, but beheaded because he could not be convinced that Henry's divorce should be approved? | Thomas More |
"No Place" | Utopia |
How many feet are in iambic pentameter? | five |
What does Renaissance mean? | Rebirth |
Which character/speaker corresponds with the quote: "I have preached to you God's Word and truth, and am come this day to seal it with my blood" | Dr. Rowland Taylor |
What type of writing combines qualities of medieval romance (knights) with allegory (ex. The Faerie Queene)? | Romantic Allegory |
Which author was a spy for the English government? | Christopher Marlowe |
Who wrote Doctor Faustus? | Christopher Marlowe |
Which character/speaker corresponds with the quote: "Come not, Lucifer - /I'll burn my books." | Doctor Faustus |
Which author corresponds with the quote: "Drink to me only with thine eyes,/And I will pledge with mine" | Ben Jonson |
Which author corresponds with the quote: "Upon a great adventure he was bond/That greatest Gloriana to him gave," | Edmund Spenser |
In which poetic foot are two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable? | anapest |
Name the special nine-line stanza. | Spenserian stanza |
Which author corresponds with the quote: "Come not, Lucifer-/I'll burn my books." | Christopher Marlowe |
Which work corresponds with the quote: "Drink to me only with thine eyes,/And I will pledge with mine" | "Song to Celia" |
Which work corresponds with the quote: "Upon a great adventure he was bond/That greatest Gloriana to him gave" | The Faerie Queene |
In which poetic foot is one unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable? | iamb |
Definition: "the arrangement of events" | plot |
Definition: "classic love song dealing with shepherds and rustic life" | pastoral |
Definition: "the speeches or conversations in a play" | dialogue |
Which character ultimately goes to hell? | Doctor Faustus |
Which ruler was said to be shrewd and just? | Elizabeth |
Who sells his soul for 24 years of earthly glory and pleasure? | Doctor Faustus |
Who exhibits great fortitude through his martyrdom? | Dr. Rowland Taylor |
Which work stresses a planned society? | Utopia |
Who was England's first poet laureate? | Ben Jonson |
Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey gave England what poetic form? | sonnet |
King James I was the first ___ monarch. | Stuart |
What does the speaker of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 compare his love to? | a summer's day |
Who wrote the first piece of English literary criticism, the Apology for Poetry? | Sir Philip Sidney |
Who wrote a poem in which the phrase "Cherry ripe!" occurs? | Thomas Campion |
What is the title of a poem in which roses are sent to a beautiful lady to keep them from withering? | Song to Celia |
Who wrote "The Burning Babe?" | Robert Southwell |
According to one of Shakespeare's sons, who "keels" the pot? | greasy Joan |
According to Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, ___ is "an ever-fixed mark/That looks on tempests" and a "star to every wandering bark." | love |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? SHAKESPEARE | Elizabethan |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? THE PEARL POET | Medieval |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? BEOWULF | Anglo-Saxon |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? CHAUCER | Medieval |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? WYRD | Anglo-Saxon |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? IAMBIC PENTAMETER | Elizabethan |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? KING ALFRED | Anglo-Saxon |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? BUBONIC PLAGUE | Medieval |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? BEN JONSON | Elizabethan |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? KNIGHTS & CHIVALRY | Medieval |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS | Elizabethan |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? BARBARIANISM | Anglo-Saxon |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? THE FAERIE QUEENE | Elizabethan |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? POETRY WAS SUNG | Anglo-Saxon |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? DARK AGES | Medieval |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? SPENSERIAN STANZA | Elizabethan |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? DRAMAS BASED ON BIBLICAL HISTORY | Medieval |
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, or Elizabethan? SEAFARER | Anglo-Saxon |
Which poet funded the first exploration to the New World (Roanoke Island in North Carolina's Outer Banks) | Sir Walter Raleigh |
Which poet wrote a response to Christopher Marlowe's pastoral poem? | Sir Walter Raleigh |
In The Faerie Queene, which character represented the Roman Catholic Church? | Error |
Name one of the four new types of English literature begun in the Elizabethan period: | literary criticism/romantic allegory/sonnet/essay |
Who is the greatest dramatist and sonnet writer in English literature? | Shakespeare |
Which literary genre reached its zenith during the Elizabethan period? | drama |
Under which monarch did England develop into a world power? | Elizabeth I |
Who was the first of the Tudor kings? | Henry VII |
Middle English transitioned during this period, in the pronunciation of long vowels and the final "e" being dropped in pronunciation and spelling and became: | Modern English |
Which major figure developed the Book of Common Prayer? | Thomas Cranmer |
Definition: "the measured rhythm of poetry" | meter |
Bible translator responsible for the "Great Bible." | Miles Coverdale |
What was a favorite type of six-part song popular in Elizabethan times? | madrigal |
Which Catholic queen martyred Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Rowland Taylor? | Bloody Mary |
Definition: "a work of moderate length in which the writer tries to develop his/her own thoughts on some subject. The word means attempt." | essay |
Definition: "the repetition of the accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines of poetry" | end rhyme |
Definition: "the pattern in a line of poetry, consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables" | foot |
In which poetic foot is an accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones? | dactyl |
In which poetic foot are there two accented syllables? | spondee |
Which poetic form is made up of two parts, an octave and a sestet, which represent a division in thought? | Italian sonnet |
Definition: "a group of four lines or a four-line stanza pattern used in poetry" | quatrain |
Definition: "an eight-line poem or stanza; often used to emphasize the first eight lines of an Italian sonnet" | octave |
Definition: "a six-line poem or the second stanza of an Italian sonnet which follows an eight-line division to clarify the preceding octave" | sestet |