Renaissance Poetry

In Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “Whoso List to Hunt,” which of the following images represents the woman the speaker wants to pursue?

• the vain traveler

• diamonds in letters plain

• the deer

• my wearied mine

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Which of the following terms best describes the device Spenser uses when he combines “fire” and “ice” in Sonnet 30?

• metaphor

• meter

• paradox

• allegory

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The image of "ice" in Sonnet 30 refers to

• suitor's passion

• love between two people

• a woman's resistance

• suitor's despair

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Sonnet 30 and 75 describe wonder at the

• transience of human life

• frustration of unreturned love

• ability of love to overpower natural cycles

• importance of remembering experiences

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The mood or focus changes in a Shakespearean Sonnet with the appearance of a

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In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” the shepherd offers the enticement of

• social status

• enduring love

• rustic pleasures

• the likelihood of a long life

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The speaker in "The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd" regards the shepherd's promised pleasures as being

• realistic

• temporary

• inadequate

• unrealistic

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Sir Walter Raleigh’s Nymph suggests that she might be the shepherd’s love if

• youth could last

• he made more money

• she received more roses

• the shepherd was more passionate

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All of the following images in the carpe diem poems support that concept except

• the changing seasons

• fading flowers

• shoes aging

• an embroidered shirt

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In “To the Virgins,” what does the speaker say about old age?

• It is inevitable

• It brings wisdom

• It bring calm

• It strengthens religious belief

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