english exam

Couplets at the ends of shakespeare's sonnets function to

add a statement of great impact and importance

By the end of Sonnet 130 , the reader knows that the speaker's feelinf toward his mistress are

affectionate

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

alliteration

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

an embroidered shirt

contradictory statement that usually reveals a truth

conceit

repetition of vowel sounds

consonance

Sonnet 30 expresses wonder at the

contradictory nature of some great truths

group of two lines

couplet

Pastoral poetry uses ______________ language

courtly

Before the final couplet , the speaker in sonnet 130 seems to be

criticizing his mistress

way a particular group of people or region speaks

dialect

choice of words

diction

The shepherd's overtures might have been accepted by a woman who

did not believe she would ever grow old

The speakers in two poems

disagree strongly

The passage "Love's not time's fool' in sonnet 116 suggests that love

endures the decline of youth

The two poems are similar in `

form , length , and rhythm

The line " In folly ripe , in reason rotten from "the Nymph's Reply to the shepherd" draws a contrast between

good sense and foolishness

repetition

refrain

The tone of " Whose List to Hunt "

resigned

the setting of pastoral poetry is typically

rural , usally as countryside

In " Passionate Shepherds to his Love" the shepherd offers the enticement of

rustic pleasures

What would Herrick most likely agree too

searching for love

voice of poem

speaker

The speaker in A Valediction ; Forbidding Mourning declares that the love between he and his wife is

spiritual

The speaker in " The Nymph's reply to the Shepherd " regards the shepherd's promised pleasures as being

temporary

The speaker in " To the virgins , to Make Much of Time" uses the setting of the sun to emphasize

the brevity of life

In " Whose List to Hunt " what represents the woman the speaker watns to pursue

the deer

why did the invention of printing with movable type have a significant impact?

the wide availabliilty of reading material allowed ideas to spread quickly.

The main reason these poems continue to be read today is

their concerns are still compelling today

author's attitude

tone

From reading shakespeare's sonnets , one can conclude that shakespeare's idea of love involves the premise that

true love is indifferent to wealth , beauty , age, and circumstance

The theme of many of the Renaissance poems is

unrequited love

The image of "ice" refers to the `

woman's indifference

The speaker in "The Nymph's Reply to the shepherd" says tht she would probably change her mind if `

youth and love lasted longer

In the poem , " That age is best which is first" means

youth is the best time of life

" Whose List to Hunt " is a

Petrarchan conceit

What best supports the concept of carpe diem

"Old tine is still a flying"

What lines from "His coy Mistress" best empahsizes the speaker's sense of urgency

"Time's winged chariot"

Mary's persecution of Protestants earned her the name

Bloody Mary

how did the monk luther contribute to the begining of the Reformation?

He developed a personal form of christianity which was not based on interpretation.

Henry was survived by three children:_________________ , daughter of Catherine of Aragon ; ________________ , daughter of Anne Boleyn; and _____________ , son of noblewoman Jane Seymour

Mary , Elizabeth , Edward

___________ was a strict Puritan leader who ordered the destruction of theaters and forbade celebrations such as Easter.

Oliver Cromwell

What describes the device Spencer uses when he combines "fire" and "ice" in Sonnet 30

Paradox

How is Sonnet 30 different from " Whose List to Hunt "

Sonnet 30 has three four-line stanzas and a concluding couple

England's independence from the Catholic countries of the Mediterranean was ensured by

The English Royal Navy's defeat of the spanish Armada in 1588

The Catholic Church was very powerful in fourteenth-century Italy -in a way that most people would find unacceptable today. Why would most modern people in the US object to such power.

The church's political power would interfere with US citizens'

In " To his coy mistress" the speaker says that he would wait patiently for the woman he addresses if

There was no limit to our time on earth

Why were so many people in england dissatisfied with the Church of England in the mid-1500's?

They felt that the church was insufficiently reformed and was merely a copy of catholicism

The mood of a sharkespearean sonnet changes with the appearance of a

Turn

exaggeration

hyperbole

five senses

imagery

The end of the Renaissance was characterized by

increasing interest in secular, rather than religious , values

What best summarizes that idea of carpe diem

living life to the fullest

Both Herrick and Marvel urge young women to

love passionately without waiting any longer

What characterizes the intellectual environment of the renaissance

most of the Europeans were highly sensitive to the achievements of people from other cultures, particualaryly people of the Orient

witty comparisons

paradox