British Literature Benchmark 2 Review

This type of poetry is often named after Shakespeare, Spenser, or Petrarch.

This term refers to the rhythmic pause that divides a line of poetry into two balanced parts.

This group of words generalizes the English worldview during the Renaissance.

This person is NOT a key figure of the Renaissance.

This Renaissance poetry with irregular meter and abstract metaphor is often considered complex.

This one is NOT a sound device. 

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" was pastoral because it----

This leader was NOT from the Renaissance.

This is what women seek according to the Wife of Bath.

Some subgroups of poets during this time were the metaphysical poets and the cavalier poets.

This is what Grendel could not touch in Herot.

This was Beowulf's final antagonist.

During this time, Elizabeth I supported the theater.

This was NOT one of the three key social forces of The Medieval Period.

The British literary time period starting roughly 1066 and ending in 1485 was popularly called-

This is what we call the shift in thought that occurs in the second half of a sonnet.

The Renaissance included spiritual writing like this text about man's fall from grace.

This war ended the Middle Ages.

This is a contradictory statement that reveals a type of truth.

The Canterbury Tales is an example.