A) John Milton B) William Shakespeare C) Christopher Marlowe D) Ben Jonson
A) 100 B) 200 C) 154 D) 120
A) A rival poet B) A fair youth C) The Queen of England D) Shakespeare's wife
A) Political power B) Love and beauty C) The passing of time D) Nature's beauty
A) As birds in flight B) As leaves falling from trees C) As stars in the night sky D) Like waves on a pebbled shore
A) Petrarchan sonnet B) Spenserian sonnet C) Shakespearean sonnet D) Villanelle
A) Four B) Three C) Two D) Five
A) abba abba cdc dcd B) aabb ccdd eeff gg C) abc abc abc abc D) abab cdcd efef gg
A) Iambic pentameter B) Trochaic tetrameter C) Anapestic trimeter D) Dactylic hexameter
A) It is fleeting and temporary B) It is irrelevant to time C) It will make the beloved's beauty immortal D) It cannot capture true beauty
A) A modernist free verse B) An irregular sonnet form C) A classic Petrarchan sonnet D) A perfect example of the 4-4-4-2 Shakespearean sonnet form
A) Monosyllables and polysyllables B) Dactyls and anapests C) Trochees and spondees D) Dimeters and trimeters
A) The battle against time B) The power of love C) The beauty of nature D) The joy of youth
A) Death and destruction B) Rebirth and renewal C) Romantic relationships D) Political themes
A) As having different models interacting with each other B) As a linear progression C) As a constant and unchanging force D) As irrelevant to human life
A) The 1600s B) The 1500s C) The 1590s D) The 1700s
A) French Revolution B) Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 C) Fall of the Roman Empire D) American Revolution
A) Natural cycles B) Political power C) Mechanical time D) Spiritual enlightenment
A) Sonnet 73 and Sonnet 116 B) Sonnet 12 and Sonnet 60 C) Sonnet 29 and Sonnet 55 D) Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130
A) Time became highly measured and integrated into social order B) People stopped measuring time altogether C) Time was no longer important to society D) Timekeeping became less accurate
A) Ovid's Metamorphoses B) Dante's Divine Comedy C) Homer's Iliad D) Virgil's Aeneid
A) The adventures of gods B) Time as a cyclical, natural process C) The heroism of warriors D) The exploration of new worlds
A) They believed passionately that the present could learn from the past B) They ignored historical texts C) They focused only on future innovations D) They considered history irrelevant
A) Between ancient and modern views of time B) Between different poetic styles C) Between personal experiences D) Between various historical events
A) The passage of time B) His verse C) Nature D) The youth's own actions
A) Lopez B) Helen Vendler C) John Milton D) Stephen Booth
A) None B) Love and beauty C) Wisdom and knowledge D) Wealth and power
A) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare B) The Oxford Shakespeare C) The Riverside Shakespeare D) "Shakespeare's Sonnets"
A) The Dark Lady B) a young man C) Shakespeare's wife D) Queen Elizabeth I
A) Book X B) Book VIII C) Book XV D) Book I
A) Hours B) Days C) Minutes D) Years |