Angela

Question 1

What is Rossetti’s father’s name?

Answer 1

Gabriel Rossetti

Question 2

What was Rossetti’s mother’s name?

Answer 2

Frances Mary Polidori (Rossetti after she married Gabriel in 1826).

Question 3

When was Christina Rossetti born?

Answer 3

5 December 1830

Question 4

What language did Gabriel Rossetti always speak to his children in?

Answer 4

Italian

Question 5

What happened to Rossetti at age 14?

Answer 5

She had a nervous breakdown and was diagnosed with religious mania.

Question 6

Anagram

Answer 6

A word made from a rearrangement of letters from another word.

Question 7

Couplet

Answer 7

A couplet is a pair of successive rhyming lines that are usually the same length. A couplet can be described as closed when the lines together form a full, grammatical sentence.

Question 8

Enjambment

Answer 8

Enjambment is when a sentence or phrase runs over to the next line in the poem, without terminal punctuation.

Question 9

Free verse

Answer 9

Free verse is best described as non-metrical and non-rhyming lines, whereby the poet does not adhere to any metrical rules in the composition.

Question 10

Hyperbole

Answer 10

A hyperbole is like an inflated exaggeration of the truth.

Question 11

Iamb

Answer 11

Iamb is a metrical foot made up of x /.

Question 12

Imagery

Answer 12

Imagery is highlighted in a poem when the poet uses any of the five senses to create a mental image, often with the use of vivid or figurative language.

Question 13

Meter

Answer 13

Meter is the rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse.

Question 14

Oxymoron

Answer 14

An oxymoron is yet another figure of speech that describes the bringing together of contradicting words, such as ‘deafening silence’.

Question 15

Personification

Answer 15

Personification is a when the poet describes an object as if it were a person.

Question 16

Pun

Answer 16

A pun is a term that describes wordplay that uses two different words that are spelled identically to deliver multiple meanings at once.

Question 17

Stanza

Answer 17

A stanza is a group of lines that are separated from others in a poem. In prose writing, you would describe this as a paragraph marking a shift in time or mood.

Question 18

Tone

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Tone, or mood, refers to the poet’s attitude and is interpreted by the reader. A combination of things can affect tone such as vocabulary, syntax, language, rhyme and metric regularity or irregularity.

Question 19

Refrain

Answer 19

In a poem or song, a refrain is a line or group of lines that regularly repeat, usually at the end of a stanza in a poem or at the end of a verse in a song.

Question 20

What did Rossetti believe about the Bible?

Answer 20

It was written by humans at the inspiration of God.

Question 21

What sect of Christianity did Rossetti follow?

Answer 21

Tractarianism

Question 22

What does Tractarianism emphasise?

Answer 22

Ritual and worship to be closer to God.

Question 23

Who is Rossetti’s sister and what did she do in 1873?

Answer 23

Maria; joined the convent of All Saints and became a nun.

Question 24

What do nuns consider themselves to be?

Answer 24

Brides of Christ.

Question 25

What do cypress trees represent?

Answer 25

Mourning because they were carried at funerals.

Question 26

What did Nightingales symbolise in Romantic poetry?

Answer 26

Joy, nature, immortality.

Question 27

In 'Song: When I am Dead, My Dearest', where does the line 'And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise or set' come from?

Answer 27

The Book of Revelations, where God's light is described as shining so brightly the sun is not needed.

Question 28

What is a dramatic monologue?

Answer 28

A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events.

Question 29

What is a ballad?

Answer 29

A popular narrative song passed down orally.

Question 30

What is a sonnet?

Answer 30

Traditionally, sonnets are made up of 14 lines and are iambic pentameter, and usually deal with love.

Question 31

What is a lyric poem?

Answer 31

Lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.

Question 32

Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 32

Perfected by the Italian poet Petrarch, divides the 14 lines into two sections: an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.

Question 33

What is an elegy?

Answer 33

An elegy doesn’t have rules like some of the other forms of poetry but it does have a set subject: death. Although they can sound sad, elegies often end on a hopeful note.

Question 34

What is a tercet?

Answer 34

A three-line stanza.

Question 35

What is a quatrain?

Answer 35

A four-line stanza.

Question 36

What is a Cinquain?

Answer 36

Five-line stanza.

Question 37

What is a sestet?

Answer 37

A six-line stanza.

Question 38

What is a septet?

Answer 38

Seven-line stanza.

Question 39

What is an octet?

Answer 39

Eight-line stanza.

Question 40

Monometer

Answer 40

Line with one foot.

Question 41

Dimeter

Answer 41

Line with two feet.

Question 42

Trimeter

Answer 42

Line of three feet.

Question 43

Tetrameter

Answer 43

Line with four feet.

Question 44

Pentameter

Answer 44

Line of five feet.

Question 45

Hexameter

Answer 45

Line of six feet.

Question 46

Heptameter

Answer 46

Line of seven feet.

Question 47

Octameter

Answer 47

Line of eight feet.

Question 48

What is an iamb?

Answer 48

A metrical foot of x-/

Question 49

What is a trochee?

Answer 49

A metrical foot of /-x

Question 50

What is a spondee?

Answer 50

A foot with /-/

Question 51

What is a pyrrhic?

Answer 51

A foot of x-x

Question 52

What is an anapest?

Answer 52

x-x-/

Question 53

What is a dactyl?

Answer 53

/-x-x

Question 54

Last two line of Song (When I am Dead).

Answer 54

'Haply I may remember, | And haply may forget.'

Question 55

Hyperbaton

Answer 55

An inversion of the normal order of words (think Yoda).

Question 56

What type of poem is Song (When I am Dead)?

Answer 56

Lyric

Question 57

When did Rossetti compose 'Remember'?

Answer 57

1849, one year after 'Song (When I am Dead)'.

Question 58

What type of poem is 'Remember' and why?

Answer 58

Sonnet; it has 14 lines and is about love.

Question 59

Volta

Answer 59

A change in tone or meaning.

Question 60

What did Mary Sandars say death was to Rossetti?

Answer 60

“A beautiful angel”

Question 61

Who was the first to propose to Rossetti?

Answer 61

James Collinson

Question 62

Why did Rossetti refuse Collinson’s proposal?

Answer 62

He was part of the Roman Catholic Church.

Question 63

In response to Rossetti refusing his proposal, what did James Collinson do?

Answer 63

Converted back to the Protestant Church of England.

Question 64

After Collinson had reverted back to Protestantism, what did Rossetti do?

Answer 64

Agree to marry him.

Question 65

What year did Rossetti get engaged to James Collinson?

Answer 65

1848

Question 66

last two lines of 'Remember'.

Answer 66

'Better by far you should forget and smile | Than that you should remember and be sad.'

Question 67

What did Rossetti die of?

Answer 67

Breast cancer

Question 68

What disease did Rossetti have?

Answer 68

Graves disease.