A) 154 B) 160 C) 200 D) 126
A) Much Ado About Nothing B) Romeo and Juliet C) Love's Labour's Lost D) Henry V
A) William Hughes, a young actor B) A fictional character with no historical basis C) Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton D) An unnamed young man addressed by the poet
A) ABBA ABBA CDE CDE B) AABB CCDD EEFF GG C) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG D) ABC ABC DEF DEF GG
A) The Rival Poet B) The Fair Youth C) The narrator D) The Dark Lady
A) 154 sonnets B) Three quatrains and a final couplet C) 47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal D) An epic poem
A) Ben Jonson B) Francis Davison C) John Davies of Hereford D) A composite of several poets
A) Infidelity and betrayal B) Admiration for the youth's beauty and a plea to marry and have children C) Rejection and independence D) Lust and homoeroticism
A) Shakespeare's Sonnets B) Leaves of Grass C) Paradise Lost D) The Canterbury Tales
A) A repetition of ideas B) A turn or shift in thought or mood C) The end of the poem D) The beginning of the poem
A) Romeo and Juliet B) Henry V C) Love's Labour's Lost D) Much Ado About Nothing
A) It is a subject of speculation regarding his identity B) It identifies him as the Fair Youth C) It confirms Mr. W.H. as the author D) It reveals him to be the Dark Lady
A) Spenserian sonnet B) Free verse C) Petrarchan sonnet D) English or Shakespearean sonnet
A) The beauty of nature B) The triumphs of love C) The adventures of a knight D) The misery of a woman victimized by male desire
A) Romeo and Juliet B) Henry V C) Love's Labour's Lost D) Much Ado About Nothing
A) They are written in rhyme royal B) They follow the Shakespearean sonnet form C) They are free verse D) They consist of three quatrains and a couplet
A) Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton B) William Hughes C) Ben Jonson D) Edward Alleyn
A) Overt sexuality and a defiant departure from traditional themes B) Praise for her beauty C) Rejection of her advances D) Admiration for her intelligence
A) Iambic pentameter B) Dactylic hexameter C) Trochaic tetrameter D) Anapestic trimeter
A) Henry V B) Much Ado About Nothing C) Romeo and Juliet D) All’s Well that Ends Well
A) George Eld B) William Shakespeare C) Edward Alleyn D) Thomas Thorpe
A) A Lover's Complaint B) The Rape of Lucrece C) Venus and Adonis D) The Phoenix and the Turtle
A) 14 B) 40 C) 126 D) 28
A) Thomas Thorpe B) John Wright C) George Eld D) William Aspley
A) ABBAABBACDCDCD B) ABABBCBCCDCDDC C) AABBCCDDEEFFGG D) ABABCDCDEFEFGG
A) Thirteen B) Eight C) Five D) Twenty
A) Thomas Thorpe B) The Earl of Southampton C) Mr. W.H. D) William Shakespeare
A) The Alchemist B) Volpone C) Every Man in His Humour D) Epigrammes (1616)
A) Thomas Kyd B) Ben Jonson C) Christopher Marlowe D) William Haughton
A) Richard Burbage B) William Hart C) Edward Alleyn D) Hamnet Shakespeare
A) Climax B) Denouement C) Volta D) Resolution
A) Edmund Malone B) Samuel Johnson C) Oscar Wilde D) Thomas Tyrwhitt
A) Female roles B) Villainous roles C) Comedic roles D) Male lead roles
A) 30 B) 15 C) 20 D) 26
A) 1616 B) 1592 C) 1588 D) 1609
A) 1598 B) 1612 C) 1597 D) 1609
A) Francis Meres B) Thomas Heywood C) Edmond Malone D) William Jaggard
A) Shakespeare's Sonnets B) The Passionate Pilgrime C) Palladis Tamia D) Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare Gent
A) Shakespeare B) Francis Meres C) Edmond Malone D) John Benson
A) Scornfully B) Indifferently C) With great respect D) Admiringly
A) Literary ambition. B) Linguistic structure. C) Biographical aspects. D) Cultural context.
A) Historical criticism. B) New Criticism. C) Cultural criticism. D) Biographical criticism.
A) Dealing with perplexity on their own. B) Focusing only on concrete meanings. C) Having experts simplify double meanings. D) Ignoring abstract meanings.
A) Relatively low. B) Widely celebrated. C) Unknown. D) Highly esteemed.
A) William Shakespeare. B) John Milton. C) Sir Philip Sidney. D) Edmund Spenser.
A) Many times. B) Never. C) Twice. D) Only once.
A) King of Navarre B) Lord Berowne C) Dumaine D) Lord Longaville
A) One B) Four C) Two D) Three
A) Love's Labour's Lost B) Romeo and Juliet C) Much Ado About Nothing D) Henry V
A) 1596 B) 1601 C) 1588 D) 1612
A) "budding of this purple bud" B) "my love is as a fever longing still" C) "that time of year thou mayst in me behold" D) "scarlet ornaments" |