John Milton

John Milton was a _______________ writer during the English Renaissance.

• Puritan

• Catholic

• Protestant

• Commonwealth

By the age of 21, Milton declared that he was going to be a ______________.

• carpenter

• great poet

• politician

• minister

For a time, and on behalf of Parliament, Milton wrote _______________ in defense of religious and civil freedoms.

• speeches

• sermons

• poems

• pamphlets

John Milton, in his 40s, lost his ____________.

• sister

• wife

• children

• eyesight

Paradise Lost, Milton's famous epic poem, was written in ____________, or unrhymed iambic pentameter.

• blank verse

• Haiku

• Free verse

• Rhymed couplets

An epic is:

• A type of musical composition that recounts the events of a hero's exploits and adventures and his tragic fall.

• a long narrative poem that recounts, in a serious tone and stately language, heroic exploits and dramatic events.

• A type of painting

• A type of dance

Milton also wrote ________________. In fact he wrote _________.

• Novels, 12

• Poems, 16

• Plays, 8

• Sonnets, 24

To create Paradise Lost he had to _____________ .

Milton wrote How Soon Hath Time on the occasion of his

• three and twentieth year

• twenty-second birthday

• three and twentieth anniversary

• twenty-fourth celebration

Paradise Lost is an epic about ____________.