English Renaissance Literature: But is it the English Renaissance? Identifying Quotes Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around English Renaissance Literature? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. "That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,/Woods, or steepy mountain yields." Plops us smack dab in the middle of:
an elegy.
the pastoral.
an apostrophe.
a conceit.
Q. Despite the pastoral feel and a bit of hope at the end, "And now the sun had stretched out all the hills,/And now was dropped into the western bay./At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue:/Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new." are lines that end what type of poem?
Aubade
Sonnet
Elegy
Ode
Q. "Flying between the cold moon and the earth/Cupid, all arm'd" is using what literary convention?
ComiCon
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Conceit
Q. What themes are expressed by this quote "had I such venture forth,/The better part of my affections would/Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still/Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind"?
Love and Death
Nature vs. Technology
Exploration and Merchants Rising
Illusion vs. Reality
Q. Besides being an aside, "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! [...] What would he do,/Had he the motive and the cue for passion/That I have?" are lines from what type of dramatic technique?
Dialogue
Livery
Parsimony
Soliloquy