Unit 2 - Historical Background + Minor Texts REVIEW

Who attempted to avenge Mary Queen of Scot's death with his terrifying Armada?

What is a sacred song or lyric poem? 

An octave has ____ lines; a sestet has ____ lines.

Which U.S. state was named for Queen Elizabeth? 

In Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," the speaker believes what age is best?

Who convinced Parliament to depose a king and establish an autocratic commonwealth? 

If immortal, Marvell's speaker would spend how long admiring his lover's eyes and forehead? 

In Utopia, Sir Thomas More compares a king to a . . . 

Who took the throne after Henry VIII? 

Utopia is Greek for:

Prodigal means . . . 

According to Bacon, which is NOT one of the purposes for studying? 

What occurs in the 3rd quatrain or final couplet of a Shakespearean sonnet? 

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Instead of Queen Elizabeth I, who did the Catholics want on the throne? 

What is a short story that is meant to teach a lesson or illustrate a moral truth? 

_____ Spenser (buried near Geoffrey Chaucer in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey!)

A group of radical Protestants wanted to "purify" the church of its Roman practices.

How did Henry VIII end up married to Catherine of Aragon? 

How many quatrains are in a Shakespearean sonnet? 

Who did Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot conspirators attempt to kill? 

A type of extended metaphor comparing very dissimilar things

In "To His Coy Mistress," Marvell warns that what may try his lover's virginity after death? 

In 1600, Shakespeare's theater was the most successful. What was its name? 

Milton: "They also serve who only _____ and _____." 

Who was Henry VIII's first wife? 

Miltonic tattoo: "Better to _____ in Hell than to _____ in Heaven"

To justify the ways of God to man

Solomon expresses in Ecclesiastes that although life is complicated, it is also _____.

Whom did Parliament invite to return from exile, ushering in the English Restoration? 

"My love is like to _____, and I to ______" (Spenser's Sonnet 30)

Which work is credited for molding the English prose style? 

This poet's lifespan was 1304-1374. (70 years!)

What is a brief and memorable statement called? 

In "On My First Son," Ben Jonson calls his deceased son . . . 

In "The Parable of the Prodigal Son," what does the elder brother have trouble understanding? 

What type of poetry idealizes shepherds and rustic life? 

Who commissioned a new translation of the Bible to appease the Puritans? 

Humanism concerns ALL but which one of the following?

This poet's lifespan was 1552-1599. (47 years!)

Who said before his execution, "The King's good servant, but God's first"? 

King David metaphorically compares his relationship with the Lord as a . . . 

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Paradise Lost can be classified best as a/an . . .

_____ Petrarch

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After dismissing Parliament for 11 years, who plunged England into a civil war? 

"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the _____" (Shakespeare's Sonnet 130) 

John Donne's speaker in "Holy Sonnet 10" warns "Death, be not _____." 

Miltonian disability 

Who wrote "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"? 

Which English writer was NOT put to death? 

"Shall I compare thee to a ______?" (Shakespeare's Sonnet 18)

"And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with _____ compare." (S #130)

This poet's lifespan was 1564-1616. (52 years!)

Henry the VIII did have a son, Edward VI, who died at 15. Who was his mother? 

"If this be error and upon me proved, / I never _, nor no man ever _." (Shakespeare Sonnet 116)

Mary I brought back . . . 

Why did Henry VIII want an annulment from Catherine of Aragon? 

Who wrote "Be not afraid of greatness"?

Where and when did sonnets originate? 

Two vices that kings better avoid, or his people will despise and/or hate him: 

John Donne's speaker in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" compares his relationship to a/an:

According to Donne's "Meditation 17," for whom does the bell toll? 

Who wrote "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"? 

Lovelace's "To Althea, from Prison" underscores the how "[s]tone walls do not a _____ make." 

John Milton's Paradise Lost can be best classified as a/an . . . 

"I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the ___ and ___ of a king"

How many lines in a sonnet? 

"[L]ove is not love / Which alters when it _____ finds" (Shakespeare's Sonnet 116)

Which Tudor King took the throne in 1485, ushering in the Tudor dynasty? 

After Elizabeth I's death, Mary Queen of Scots' son ruled at the end of the Shakespearean era. 

How many plays did Shakespeare allegedly write? 

In 1649, who closed all the London playhouses, ending the golden age of drama?