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