Elizabethan Prose and Poetry

 Elizabethan Prose and Poetry

1) The sonnet was first brought to England by

     Sir Thomas Wyatt

2) The first blank verse in English is written by

     Earl of Surry

3) How many lines does the sonnet contain?

    ANS.   14

4) What is the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet?

    ANS.   ababcdcdefefgg

5) What is Marlowe’s “Mighty Line”?

    ANS.  Blank Verse

5) Who made blank verse the regular metre of epic?

 Milton

6) Songs and Sonnets is written by

Tottle

7) “Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part” is written by

Drayton

8) The sonnets of Shakespeare were printed in

1609

9) The sonnets of Shakespeare may be addressed to

William Herbert (Mr.W.H.)

10) Who wrote the following lines?

“But were some child of yours alive that time

You should live twice – in it, and in my rhyme”

Shakespeare

11) Spenser wrote The Shepherd’s Calendar in the year

1579

12) The Faerie Queene is written by

Edmund Spenser

13) The Faerie Queene is written in

6 books

14) The rhyme plan of a Spenserian stanza is

ababbcbcc

15) In 1594, Spenser married

Elizabeth Boyle

16) Which one of the following is a marriage song?

 Epithalamion

17) The line “Sweet Thames run softly till I end my song.” appears in

Prothalamion

18) The title of Spenser’s collection of sonnets is

Amoretti

19) The Elizabethan Age was especially congenial for

Lyric

20) Sir Philip Sidney was killed in the battle of

Zutphen

21) The title of Sidney’s book of sonnets is

Astrophel and Stella

22) Who was the soldier, sailor, explorer, courtier and writer of the Elizabethan

Age?

Sir Walter Raleigh

23) Identify the source of the following line

“O mistress mine, where are you roaming?”

Twelfth Night

24) The longer poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece are written by

William Shakespeare

25) The lyric Passionate Shepherd to his Love is written by

Marlowe

26) Identify the writer of the following lines

“Come live with me and be my love

And we will all the pleasures prove”

Marlowe

27) John Donne is the greatest

Metaphysical Poet

28) The poem Go and Catch the Falling Star is written by

 John Donne

29) John Donne was

 Lawyer and Priest

30) Who wrote The Songs and Sonnets?

 Donne

31) To Celia is written by

 Ben Jonson

32) Identify the author of the following lines

“Drink to me only with thine eyes,

And I will pledge with mine;

Or leave a kiss but in the cup,

And I’ll not look for wine”

 Ben Jonson

33) Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans was translated by

 Sir Thomas North

34) Who used Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans as a storehouse of

learning?

William Shakespeare

35) Identify the author of The Principle Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries

of the English Nations

Richard Hakluyt

36) The Principle Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nations

were published in

1589

37) Purchas his Pilgrims was published in

 1625

38) The history book Chronicles (1577) is written by

Holinshed

39) Who used Chronicles as a source book for writing his/their history plays?

a) Shakespeare b) Marlowe

40) Euphues is written by

John Lyly

41) “They are commonly soonest believed that are best beloved, and they liked

best whom we have known longest.” This example of the style of speaking is

known as    Euphuism

42) Who is the author of Pandosto?

  Robert Greene

43) Pandosto is used by Shakespeare as a source for the plot of his play

  The Winter’s Tale

44) The picaresque novel The life of Jack Wilton is written by

 Thomas Nah

45) Picaresque novels were first written in

 Spain

46) Bacon’s Essays first appeared in the year

 1597

47) “Some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not

curiously; and some few to be read wholly.” Comes from Bacon’s essay

 Of Studies