Beginning to Elizabethan Flashcards
(75 cards)
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What is Epic Poetry?
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It is a long narrative poem
It is written in elevated style
It uses supernatural elements
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“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.”
It is an example of?
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End Rhyme
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Pryrhic metre which syllables?
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Unstressed + Unstressed
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Villanelle originated in?
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France
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Which is the earliest known poem?
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Caedmon
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Owl and the Nightingale was written in?
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1189
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Chaucer was born in?
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London
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Who among these is the only devout churchman in The Canterbury Tales?
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The Parson
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Piers the Plowman was written in?
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Alliterative Verse
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Confessio Amantis by Gower has 15,000 —————— English couplets
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Octasyllabic
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How many poem does the Tottel’s Miscellany have?
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271
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Which Poem was inspired from Virgil’s Aeneid, the 15th-century Italian Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, and, later, Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1581).
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Faerie Queene
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Which Book in the Faerie Queene is centred on the virtue of holiness as embodied in the Redcrosse Knight who travelled with his lady and he fights the monster Errour
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Book 1
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Dragon in Faerie Queene symbolizes?
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Catholic Church
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It is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman?
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The Rape of Lucrece
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Shakespeare’s sonnets have?
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154
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Who was the young youth according to Oscar Wilde in Shakespeare’s Sonnets?
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William Hughes
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Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman’s nay doth stand for naught?
It is a line from?
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Venus and Adonis
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Ballad of Scottyssche Kynge is a play by?
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John Skelton
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John Skeleton was the tutor of?
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Henry VIII
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Astrophil and Stella has how many sonnets?
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108 sonnets and 11 songs
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Thomas Wyatt was born in?
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1503 Allington Castle in Kent
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What was the rhyme scheme of Wyatt’s sonnets?
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Abba abba eddc ee
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Who executed Earl of Surrey?
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Henry VIII
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Who translated Aeneid to English?
Surrey in 1557 as Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aegeis
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A view of the present state of Ireland was published in?
1633
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Who said about Spenser, ‘He writ no langage’
Ben Jonson
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Who said these about Spenser:
| Sage and serious Spenser
Milton,
England’s first epic poet, Keats,
Sweet Spenser- Wordsworth
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Noble and virtuous gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and chivalry.”-
Who was Shepherdes Calander dedicated to?
Sir Philp Sydney
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How many stanzas and lines in Epithalamion?
24 and 365
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The Faerie Queene Book I to III were published in
1590 (He gave it to Elizabeth in 1589)
| Republished with IV, VI, VII and two cantos named two cantos of Mutability
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What was the rhyme scheme of The Faerie Queene?
Ababbcbcc
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Book 2 to 6 of Faerie Queene is centred on?
virtue of Temperance as embodied in Sir Guyon, who is tempted by the fleeing Archimago into nearly attacking the Redcrosse Knight.
Book III is centred on the virtue of Chastity as embodied in Britomart, a lady knight. Britomart rescues the Redcrosse Knight and reveals to the Redcrosse Knight that she is pursuing Sir Artegall because she is destined to marry him.
Book IV, despite its title "The Legend of Cambell and Telamond or Of Friendship", Cambell's companion in
Book IV is actually named Triamond, and the plot does not center on their friendship; the two men appear only briefly in the story.
Book V is centred on the virtue of Justice as embodied in Sir Artegall.
Book VI is centred on the virtue of Courtesy as embodied in Sir Calidore.
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Venus and Adonis has rhyme scheme?
ABABCC iambic Pentameter
199 stanzas and 1194 lines
Published by? Richard Fort
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Rape of Lucrece rhyme scheme?
ABABBCC – Rhyme Royal
| 1855 lines, 265 stanzas
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Rhyme scheme of Sonnets by Shakespeare?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Sonnets 99, 126 and 145 have 15 lines
126 has six couplets and two blank lines with Italian Brackets
145 is in iambic tetrametre
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Sonnets on Dark lady were written in?
1591-95
Fair Youth 1597-1603
urging the young man to marry and father children (sonnets 1–17).
poet’s loving admiration, which at times is homoerotic in nature.
f betrayals by the young man,
seduced by the Dark Lady,
(sonnets 133, 134 & 144),
poet’s own act of betrayal, resulting in his independence from the fair youth (sonnet 152).
Henry Wriothesley, the 3rd Earl of Southampton.
Oscar Wilde proposed that the Fair Youth was William Hughes,
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Which one of these is a subcategory of Lyric Poetry
Elegy
Ode
The Sonnet
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A kind of poetry that teaches something?
Didactic
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A natural pause that occurs in the middle of a line is called?
Caesura
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A rhyme royal has -------- stanzas
Seven
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In Canterbury tales, the pilgrims were going to the shrine of
Thomas Becket
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The story of Beowulf is set in?
Scandinavia
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an --------------- story
Welsh
Irish
English
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Canterbury Tales has ---------- stories
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Vox Clamantis was written by?
John Gower
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The name of this poem was derived from Greek word for star and lover and latin word which means star?
Astrophil and Stella
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A View of the Present State of Ireland was written by?
Edmund Spenser
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……………………was Published in 1596 it is a marriage song composed that year on the occasion of the twin marriage of the daughters of the Earl of Worcester, Elizabeth Somerset and Katherine Somerset. FITB
Prothalmion
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Who personifies true church in The Faerie Queene?
Una
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This poems tells the story of the Goddess of Love and her attempts to seduce an extremely handsome man?
Venus and Adonis
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Rape of Lucrece is dedicated to?
Earl of Southampton
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Sonnet sequence 133 and 144 are about?
Liaison with Dark Lady
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Ben Jonson’s Epigram was published in?
1616
It explores various attitudes, satire on the time, against women , courtiers and spies, ex poems on Camden, and Lucy Harrington
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“To Penhurst”, “To Celia”(also in Volpone) Come Celia, Let us Prose
“Underworld”(1640)
Poems –“A Celebration of Chorus- lovepoetry, Sonnet on Mary Wroth
Are poems by?
Ben Jonson
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Who died as dean of Saint Paul?
John Donne
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Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to aery thinness beat.
Lines from?
Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
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Who wrote Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculation?
George Herbert 1633
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Temple is about?
1st section: the individual’s need of right conduct before God. In the second section,
2nd deepen the Christian’s life by reviewing the spiritual virtues.
3rd history of the “Church Militant.”
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I struck the board and cried/ No More…”- rebellion against God’s discipline but ends with lines- But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild/ Methought I heard one calling, Child, And I replied, My Lord
These are lines from
The Collar by George Herbert
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Steps to the temple is a poem by
Richard Crashaw (1646)
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Saint Mary Magdalene or the Weeper is a poem by?
Richard Crashaw – It is about bleeding heart with face of a weeping woman
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Hymn to the name and honour of admirable Saint Teresa. Is a poem by?
Richard Crashaw
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Silex Scintillans (1655) is a poem by?
HenryVaughan.
It is about relationship with God. Veil separates Man from God, Time from eternity
World of nature is not Christian story but world with creatures and objects
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The Retreat is a poem by?
Henry Vaughan
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What does retreat mean?
It has a double meaning of retreat? Place of refuge and the act of withdrawal
Mortal life is second race. We enjoyed heavenly existence enjoyed before the birth. Christ is his first love
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To his Coy Mistress is a?
Dramatic Monologue
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Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song: then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust:
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
These are lines from?
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To His Coy Mistress
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The Mistress- Collection 1647
No poems of seduction
Horatian. “Davideis”- unfinished religious epic in heroic couplet, Virgil
These are poems by?
Abraham Cowley
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Carpe diem is a slogan of?
Cavalier Poets
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Hesperides -1648 with Noble Numbers
“The Argument of his book”- The Hock cast or Harvest Home
Country life- Harvest festival, seasons
“Oberon’s Feast”- English Folklore
These are poems by?
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Robert Herrick
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Which are the poems by Thomas Carew
“To a Lady that I desired I would Love her”
“A Rapture”- Sexual encounter using euphemism, Psychological curiosity
“An Elegy upon the death of Deans of Pauls, Dr. John Donne.
“Celia”- His lover, urgency of courtship, carpe diem
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Poems by John Suckling?
Oh, for some house lover’s ghost”
He invented card game Cribbage
“Ballad upon a Wedding”
“A Session of the Poets”- 54 lines- competing for Laurel, ultimately given to Apollo
“Loved not the muses so well as his sports” Suckling
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Richard Lovelace wrote?
"To Generall Goring", a poem of Bacchanalian celebration rather than a glorification of military action.
"To Lucasta, Going to the Warres", written in 1640, concerned his first political action.
"To Althea, From Prison" was written during his first imprisonment in 1642. A Petrarchan Sonnet.
Later that year, during his travels to Holland with General Goring, he wrote The Rose, followed by The Scrutiny.
He also wrote poems on animal life: The Ant, The Grasse-hopper( Headless grasshopper, a celebration of friendship”
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Other Cavalier poets
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Sidney Godolphin(1610-43)- inspired from Jonson and Donne
Richard Corbet (1582-1635)
Minor lyrist of the period, famous poem, “A Proper New Ballad, intituled the Faries’ Farewell, or God, a mercy Will”
William Davenant- Heroic poem Gondibert, “A lark now leaves his wat’ry nest”
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