QUIZ C-101 British Poetry & Drama

Petrarchan sonnet is also known as

• English Sonnet

• Italian Sonnet

• French Sonnet

• Shakespearan sonnet

Edmund Spenser wrote a modified form of ______ sonnets.

• Shakespearean

• love

• Petrarchan

• Elizabethan

Spenser's 'Amoretti' is :

• A collection of his love lyrics

• A collection of his love sonnets

• A collection of his miscellaneous songs

• n elegy on the death of Sydney

The Renaissance was the rebirth of

 

• arts, literature, and science

• Monarchy

• theatre

• Religion

Who is the father of the English sonnet?

• Sir Thomas Wyatt

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• Sir Philip Sidney

• Sir Edmund Spenser

A type of sonnet that consists of three quatrains and a couplet, with an interlocking rhyme scheme of abab bcbc cdcd ee.

• Shakespearean Sonnet

• Italian Sonnet

• English Sonnet

• Spenserian Sonnet

In Spenser’s Sonnet 75, the speaker writes his love’s name in the sand. What is his main message to his love in this poem?

• He will love her forever.

• His poem will make their love immortal

• Their love has survived great suffering.

• The pleasures of love end with death.

In Spenser’s Sonnet 67-Like as a huntsman. The beloved is compared to a-

• lily

• rose

• deer

• warrior

The poem -A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is written by-

• Edmund Spenser

• Christopher Marlow

• William Shakespear

• John donne

Which of these is NOT a theme of Metaphysical Poetry?

• Devotional Themes

• Complexities and Contradictions in life

• War and loyalty to the King

• Psychological and philosophical subjects