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