AS Poetry Anthology Context and Form Quiz

Question 1

What type of poet was George Herbert?

Accepted Answer

A Metaphysical poet

Question 2

What is one of the differences between a Petrachan sonnet and a Shakespearean sonnet?

Accepted Answer

Shakespearean sonnets have a rhyming couplet to end

Question 3

What was Anne Bradstreet's religion?

Accepted Answer

Puritan

Question 4

What did the English Civil War lead to?

Accepted Answer

Some great Horrible History songs, The execution of Charles I and Cromwell became ruler of the country

Question 5

What are the assessment objectives for Unit 1 Section A?

Accepted Answer

AO1 - 15, AO2 - 15, AO3 - 15, AO4 - 15

Question 6

What was Milton's most famous work?

Accepted Answer

Paradise Lost

Question 7

What was controversial about Christopher Marlowe?

Accepted Answer

He was accused of being a drunk, an atheist and a spy

Question 8

What is Wordsworth's poetry usually characterised by?

Accepted Answer

Power of nature

Question 9

What was the name of William Blake's collection of poems?

Accepted Answer

Songs of Innocence and Experience

Question 10

Who wrote the Schoolboy?

Accepted Answer

Blake

Question 11

What was Emily Bronte's most famous literary work?

Accepted Answer

Wuthering Heights

Question 12

What was an achievement that Elizabeth Barrett Browning nearly claimed?

Accepted Answer

First female poet laureate

Question 13

What form is Darkling Thrush?

Accepted Answer

A ballad

Question 14

What theme is explored in God's Grandeur?

Accepted Answer

Destruction of nature by man

Question 15

What was Christopher Marlowe's most famous work?

Accepted Answer

Doctor Faustus

Question 16

Thomas Campion was famous for what?

Accepted Answer

His music (as well as his poetry)

Question 17

Who was the quotation about: 'he is mad, bad and dangerous to know'?

Accepted Answer

Byron

Question 18

Who did Shakespeare dedicate his series of sonnets to?

Accepted Answer

The 'Dark Lady'

Question 19

What theme is explored in Hardy's poem?

Accepted Answer

Loss of faith

Question 20

What was William Blake's main profession?

Accepted Answer

artist

Question 21

Who was 'She Walks in Beauty' about?

Accepted Answer

Byron's cousin's wife

Question 22

What was Doctor Faustus about?

Accepted Answer

A man who sold his soul to the devil

Question 23

What contributes towards AO3?

Accepted Answer

Context

Question 24

What type of poet is Wordsworth best known as?

Accepted Answer

Romantic

Question 25

Where did Anne Bradstreet emigrate?

Accepted Answer

America

Question 26

How old was Keats when he die? How and where did he die?

Accepted Answer

25, tuberculosis, Italy

Question 27

What are George Herbert's poems characterised by?

Accepted Answer

A deep religious devotion

Question 28

What type of poem is 'Passionate Shepherd'?

Accepted Answer

pastoral lyric

Question 29

What form is Milton's poem 'On his Blindness'?

Accepted Answer

A Petrachan sonnet

Question 30

What form is popularly associated with Keats?

Accepted Answer

Odes

Question 31

What was Gerard Manley Hopkins' vocation?

Accepted Answer

Jesuit Priest

Question 32

What is the turning point in a poem called?

Accepted Answer

volta

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