Renaissance Poetry Review

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Renaissance Poetry Review

• for all classes

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Description of test

• 50 scantron questions (including information from
  the notes quiz, matching authors/titles, and
  multiple choice questions about the poems
• 5 short discussion questions for everyone you
  will be given a quote from a poem, and you must
  identify the poetic device in the quote and
  explain it
• 1 longer discussion question for AP only

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• Please note that the questions in this review are
  similar (not necessarily identical) to the types
  of questions that will be on the test.

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• To what does the pronoun his refer in the
  following lines Loves not Times fool, though
  rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickles
  compass come.
• Answer Time

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• What literary device is used to describe despair
  in the following line With shield of proof
  shield me from out the prease of those fierce
  darts Despair at me doth throw?
• Answer personification

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• What literary device is used in the following
  line not yet a breach, but an expansion, like
  gold to airy thinness beat
• Answer simile

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• What device is used in the following line the
  indifferent judge between the high and low?
• Answer personification

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• In A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, what
  does dull sublunary lovers love refer to?
• Answer love based on physical attraction or
  physical presence

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• What literary device is used in this line a
  chamber deaf to noise and blind to light
• Answer personification

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• What Renaissance literary device is used in the
  last 3 stanzas of A Valediction Forbidding
  Mourning ?
• Answer metaphysical conceit

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• What type of poem is sonnet 39 or, what literary
  device is the whole poem an example of?
• Answer apostrophe

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• What does the simile in the first two verses of
  A Valediction compare?
• Answer the dying of a virtuous man to the
  parting of two loversthe farewell will be quiet
  and calm.

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• In sonnet 39, what do high and low refer to
  in the line, the indifferent judge between the
  high and low ?
• Answer high means the upper class low means
  the lower or working classthe line generally
  refers to the idea that the high will often be
  privileged by a judge, though not by one who is
  indifferent.

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• This was published in 1611
• King James Bible

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• What does rosy lips and cheeks stand for in the
  following lines Loves not Times fool, though
  rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickles
  compass come.
• Answer physical beauty, which is destroyed by
  time

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• What literary device is present in the following
  lines I, like an usurped town, to another due,
  labor to admit you, but oh, to no end.
• Answer simile

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• What does usurped mean in the following lines
  I, like an usurped town, to another due, labor
  to admit you, but oh, to no end.
• Answer seized or taken over unlawfully

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• The English navy defeated _______ in 1588.
• Spanish Armada

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• In sonnet 75, the line, but came the tide, and
  made my pains his prey, the pronoun his refers
  to
• Answer the tide

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• In sonnet 75 the line, but came the tide, and
  made my pains his prey, my pains refers to
• Answer the authors writing of the womans name
  in the sand

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• This man brought the printing press to England
• William Caxton

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• True or false Renaissance writers believed
  poetry should fit expected forms and patterns.
• true

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• In this poem, the Christian belief in the souls
  afterlife is a supporting idea but is not
  discussed in detail.
• Answer sonnet 10, Death be not Proud

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• The Passionate Shepherd to his Love is this
  type of poem
• Answer pastoral

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• What literary device is contained in the
  following line Nor ever chaste, except you
  ravish me.
• Answer paradox

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• Who brought the sonnet to England?
• Thomas Wyatt

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• What literary device is contained in the
  following lines Yet dearly I love you, and
  would be loved fain, but am betrothed unto your
  enemy. Divorce me, untie, or break that knot
  again,
• Answer metaphor

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• Name the poetic device contained in the following
  lines and then my state, like to the lark at
  break of day arising from sullen earth, sings
  hymns at heavens gate
• Answer simile

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• Writer who first wrote sonnets in the 1300s
• Petrarch

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• From sonnet 75, the line, My verse your virtues
  rare shall eternize, means that
• Answer the writers poetry will make the womans
  goodness and beauty (virtues) last forever

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• In The Passionate Shepherd to his Love, the
  lines by whose falls/ melodious birds sing
  madrigals is an example of what poetic device?
• Answer hyperbole (exaggeration)

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• Type of sonnet which has three quatrains and a
  couplet, and it has a new rhyme scheme for each
  quatrain
• Shakespearean

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• This poem contains a simile in which the speaker
  compares the woman he loves to ice.
• Answer Spensers sonnet 30, My love is like to
  ice

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• What literary device is contained in the
  following line Thou art slave to fate, chance,
  kings, and desperate men
• Answer personification

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• Type of sonnet which has three quatrains and a
  couplet, and has an interlocking rhyme scheme
• Spenserian

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• What literary device is used in the following
  line from sonnet 116?
• It is the star to every wandering bark
• Answer metaphor

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• This poetic device is a direct comparison between
  two unlike things.
• Metaphor

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• Type of sonnet which has an octave and a sestet
• Italian sonnet

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• Four lines of poetry which make up a section of a
  sonnet
• quatrain

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• The speaker of this poem compares himself to
  fire.
• Answer Spensers sonnet 30, My love is like to
  ice

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• What two things are compared in the following
  lines and then my state, like to the lark at
  break of day arising from sullen earth, sings
  hymns at heavens gate
• Answer the speakers state of mind is compared
  to a lark singing beautiful songs to heaven

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• The poetic form that portrays an idealized rural
  setting
• pastoral

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• This poem contains a paradox describing unusual
  interactions of fire and ice.
• Answer Spensers sonnet 30, My love is like to
  ice

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• In Shakespeares sonnet 130 the speaker is making
  fun of other Renaissance poetry. What aspect of
  those poems does he mock?
• Answer the exaggerated comparisons used in other
  poems to idealize a womans beauty

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• the use of exaggeration to make a point, create
  humor, or express emotion is called
  _____________.
• hyperbole

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• Death be not Proud is an example of which
  literary device, used to address an entity who
  will not answer the speaker?
• Answer apostrophe

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• From Death be not Proud, what does thee refer
  to in this line From rest and sleep, which but
  thy pictures be, much pleasure, then from thee
  much more must flow
• Answer death

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• a statement that seems impossible or
  contradictory, but is true in the context in
  which it is written is a _________.
• paradox

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• John Donne and Andrew Marvell wrote this type of
  poetry
• Metaphysical

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• The concluding couplet of this poem states that
  love is so powerful that it can alter the laws of
  nature.
• Answer Spensers sonnet 30, My love is like to
  ice

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• What two things are compared in the following
  line from sonnet 116 It is the star to every
  wandering bark
• Answer it is love love is compared to a star
  that guides a wandering ship

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• Why was Thomas More executed?
• He opposed Henry VIIIs divorce

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• In which sonnet does the speaker explain that his
  flames are increased manifold by being exposed
  to extreme cold?
• Answer Spensers sonnet 30, My love is like to
  ice

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• One of the first English translations of the
  Bible was written in the 1520s and 1530s by
  ___.
• William Tyndale

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• The Lord Chamberlains Men built ___________ in
  1599.
• The Globe Theatre

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• Give a paraphrase of the following line
• With what I most enjoy contented least
• Answer The things that I usually enjoy now give
  me absolutely no pleasure.

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• What poetic device is contained in the following
  line imprison me, for I, except you enthrall
  me, never shall be free
• Answer paradox

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• Who helped spark the Protestant Reformation in
  1517?
• Martin Luther

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• In The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd, how does
  the speaker describe the gifts offered by the
  shepherd?
• She says they will not last they are full of
  folly.

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• What two things are compared in the following
  line
• It is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests
  and is never shaken.
• Answer love is compared to a landmark that will
  always be fixed in place.

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• This was a movement supporting the idea that
  human beings can achieve greatness on their own
  abilities (as opposed to having everything
  controlled by God)
• Humanism

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• Name the poetic devices in the following line
  But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
• Answer personification and metaphor (tide is
  personified as a predator writing is compared to
  prey)

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• In which sonnet does the speaker describe his
  hatred of his own life and his envy for what
  other men have?
• Answer Shakespeares sonnet 29

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• This was a time when people showed renewed
  interest in science, art, and all learning, and
  it helped England and Europe transition from
  the middle ages into the modern era.
• renaissance

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• Which sonnet contains a conversation between a
  man and a woman?
• Answer sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser, One day I
  wrote her name

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• What important Renaissance idea about poetry is
  expressed in the following line
• my verse your virtues rare shall eternize
• Answer Poetry can immortalize the goodness and
  beauty of a loved one.

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• Which word means rebirth in French?
• Renaissance

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• What literary device is contained in the
  following line
• Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and
  cheeks within his bending sickles compass come.
• Answer personification