Elizabethan literature - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Villanelle - Answer-An intricate French poetic form with 19 lines divided into 5 3-lined stanzas (called tercets), and one final quatrain. It has only 2 rhyming sounds, so it is difficult to write one in English. Petrarchan sonnet - Answer-Italian sonnet with the rhyme scheme of abba abba. It divides into 2 parts, the first part being an octet and the second being a sestet. Elizabethan or Shakespearean Sonnet - Answer-Written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and a fin...

In what English city was William Shakespeare born? - ANSWER-Stratford-upon-Avon What is Shakespeare's birthdate - ANSWER-April 23, 1564 Why don't we know his exact birthday? - ANSWER-many kids had the plague, so they did not know if he would live or not. What is the highest level of education Shakespeare completed? - ANSWER-middle school Why was Shakespeare able to attend school? - ANSWER-Had a wealthy family name of Shakespeare's wife - ANSWER-Anne Hathaway unusual about th...

Literary Criticism UIL Exam Study Guide 2024 antagonist - CORRECT ANSWER-the character directly opposed to the chief character of a literary work the Great Awakening - CORRECT ANSWER-the revival of emotional religion during the first half of the eighteenth century in America Harlem Renaissane - CORRECT ANSWER-originated in the New York City area immediately after the First World War, the first major, self-conscious literary movement of African American writers is known as theme - CO...

Literary Criticism UIL Exam Study Guide 2024 antagonist - CORRECT ANSWER-the character directly opposed to the chief character of a literary work the Great Awakening - CORRECT ANSWER-the revival of emotional religion during the first half of the eighteenth century in America Harlem Renaissane - CORRECT ANSWER-originated in the New York City area immediately after the First World War, the first major, self-conscious literary movement of African American writers is known as theme - CO...

English Literature CLEP Final Exam Q & A 2024. heroic couple - correct answer a rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines, first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit, esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: "In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend") terza rima -(tert′sə rē′mə) - correct answer a verse form of Italian origin, made up of tercets, the second line of each tercet rhyming with the fir...

English Literature CLEP Latest 2023 Graded A heroic couple a rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines, first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit, esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: "In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend") terza rima -(tert′sə rē′mə) a verse form of Italian origin, made up of tercets, the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba,...

CLEP English Literature QUESTIONS AND PASSED GUARANTEED ANSWERS 2023/2024 Beowulf Characters - correct answer king hrothgar, beowulf, grendel old english geoffrey chaucer - correct answer canterbury tales: 20 pilgrim stories and wife of bath middle english william langland - correct answer Piers the Plowman (sorrows of being poor) Allegory poem is simple and colloquial middle english shakespeare - correct answer merchant of venice, hamlet, macbeth, romeo and juliet,...

GACE Study Guide 2023 Solution Update Neoclassical Period - ANS-Literature written between 1660 and 1798. This time period is broken down into three parts: the Restoration period, the Augustan period, and the Age of Johnson. They imitated the style of Romans and Greeks & presented mankind as flawed. Romantic Period - ANS-From the late 18th through the mid 19th century. This period saw a shift from faith in reason to faith in the senses, feelings, and imagination; from urban to rura...

CSET English Subtest 1 Questions and Answers 2023 Villanelle An intricate French poetic form with 19 lines divided into 5 3-lined stanzas (called tercets), and one final quatrain. It has only 2 rhyming sounds, so it is difficult to write one in English. Petrarchan sonnet Italian sonnet with the rhyme scheme of abba abba. It divides into 2 parts, the first part being an octet and the second being a sestet. Elizabethan or Shakespearean Sonnet Written in iambic pentameter and cons...

Notes from a range of sources that helped me to get an A* at A Level Includes notes on: Elizabeth I: character and aims; consolidation of power, including the Act of Settlement and relations with foreign powers The impact of economic, social and religious developments in the early years of Elizabeth's rule Elizabethan government: court, ministers and parliament; factional rivalries Foreign affairs: issues of succession; Mary, Queen of Scots; relations with Spain Society: continuity an...