Renaissance

Question 1

When did the British Renaissance era start and end?

Answer 1

1485-1660

Question 2

Which languages return during the renaissance?

Answer 2

Greek and Latin

Question 3

Who were patrons of artists and the sciences?

Answer 3

Popes

Question 4

What were three Renaissance ideas?

Answer 4

1. Humans are capable perfection
2. Humans have free will.
3. Humans face potential degradation if not careful.

Question 5

Who wrote the Praise of Folly, taught Greek at Cambridge, and the speculative treatise, Utopia?

Answer 5

Erasmus

Question 6

During the Renaissance Reformation, government moved away from “_______” and toward _______.

Answer 6

divine right of kings; democracy

Question 7

What is the word for religious but were fed up with the Catholic church? (eg. Puritans, Baptists, Presbyterians)

Answer 7

Dissenters

Question 8

Who created the royal navy?

Answer 8

Henry VIII

Question 9

What did the Royal Navy do?

Answer 9

• Stop invasions of England

- Spread English language and literature around the globe

Question 10

What did Elizabeth I do for the church?

Answer 10

• Denounced the pope

- re-established the church of England

Question 11

Who came against Elizabeth I in the Spanish Armada?

Answer 11

Mary Stuart (her Catholic cousin) and King Philip of Spain

Question 12

When Elizabeth became a symbol of prosperity and peace, what names was she represented as in literature? (5 different titles)

Answer 12

Gloriana, Diana, Cynthia, the Faerie Queene, the Virgin Queene

Question 13

What form of writing was inspired by Petrarch and influenced Spenser and Shakespeare?

Answer 13

Sonnets

Question 14

Who brought sonnets to England?

Answer 14

Wyatt and Surrey

Question 15

Which type of writing portrayed the leisure classes as simple country dwellers and elevated nature and country pleasures?

Answer 15

Pastorals

Question 16

What is an example of a pastoral?

Answer 16

“A passionate shepherd to his love” by

Question 17

What is epiTHALAMIA?

Answer 17

wedding poems

Question 18

epiGRAMS

Answer 18

poems either praising or making fun of real or fictitious people

Question 19

epiTAPHS

Answer 19

poems about dead people

Question 20

What are the two types of songs?

Answer 20

• airs (solos)

- Madrigals (part songs for group singing)

Question 21

What are poems that tell a story?

Answer 21

narrative

Question 22

Long narrative poems with national heroes, supernatural beings, and concern with good vs. evil

Answer 22

epic poems

Question 23

an elaborate, unusual, extended metaphor

- ex: describing heaven as a cage

Answer 23

conceits

Question 24

plays based on the bible and lives of the saints used to encourage religious devotion

Answer 24

miracle and mystery plays

Question 25

Playwrights who were university educated

Answer 25

Marlowe, Green, Lyly

Question 26

Renaissance dramatists with no university education

Answer 26

Shakespeare, Jonson, Kyd

Question 27

stories to encourage moral behavior and advise on how to live and die

Answer 27

morality plays

Question 28

One act plays between longer, more somber plays. (Some moral, some rowdy and farcical)

Answer 28

interludes

Question 29

argumentative works about religious controversies, travel, exploration and discovery

Answer 29

Renaissance prose

Question 30

Who's rule started the decline of the Renaissance?

Answer 30

James VI of Scotland (Elizabeth's cousin) who becomes James I of England

Question 31

Who takes over at James I's death and is beheaded shortly after he starts ruling?

Answer 31

Charles I

Question 32

What kind of ruler was James I of England?

Answer 32

Benevolent, peaceful ruler who overspent and didn't negotiate troubles between constituents well