Blank Verse

Question 1

It is an ? With ? And ?
It is ?
It is traditionally associated with ?

Answer 1

Iambic line / ten stresses /five beats
Unrhymed
Dramatic speech and epic poetry

Question 2

The lack of rhyme makes what more possible and effective

Answer 2

Enjambment

Question 3

It is often identified as the poetic form

Answer 3

Closest to human speech

Question 4

Boni verse cane into English poetry from ?

The Italians called blank verse ?

Answer 4

Italian literature

Verse sciolti da rima: verse free from rhyme

Question 5

There was intense interest at the time in finding an ?

Answer 5

Unrhymed line that would match the heft and weight of the classical epic

Question 6

This was after all the ? When ? Was still priority for poets

Answer 6

Reinassnce

Imitation of the classical epic its scope and purpose

Question 7

Italian poets such as ? We’re already ?
But there blank verse was composed with ?
There was still a need to ? In ?

Answer 7

Luigi alamanni and trissino were already using blank verse for plays in early part of 16th century

11/10/9 syllables

Naturalize the whole project of blank verse in English language

Question 8

Inventor of blank verse in England
Powerful influence in poetry they do not?
Born in ? The son of a man who would become
He would die at age of ? Executed for ? By? Except that ?

Answer 8

Henry Howard earl of surrey 
Do not completely master 
1517 
Duke of Norfolk 
30/Henry VIII
Advised his sister to become the kings mistress and for some other minor offenses

Question 9

Two major innovations in English poetry ?

Answer 9

Helped Thomas Wyatt bring sonnet to England

Translated the Aeneid into this strain he meter of blank verse

Question 10

His intention was to produce a ?

Answer 10

Strict ten syllable line

Question 11

The establishment of blank verse as a convention that could be used in English poetry had an?
Without ? There was suddenly ?

Answer 11

Immediate effect

Rhyme/ far more handed of natural and unforced speech

Question 12

With whom did blank verse come into its own ?
Born ?
Electrified London theatre with his production of (when published and performed)

Answer 12

Christopher Marlowe
1564
Tamburlaine the great
1590

Question 13

Here for the first time blank verse was revealed to be a ?

Where ? Could be ?

Answer 13

Natural vehicle for rhythmic and sustained speech
Complex argument and emotion sustained without
Being drowned out by rhyme

Question 14

Shakespeare chose ? Although usually made it a near neighbor of
Who took it farther again
Arguing his ?
That this measure was preferable to ? And that it provided ?

Answer 14

Blank verse for most of his plays
Rhyme and song
John Milton : arguing his prose at the beginning of paradise lost
The jingling sound of like endings
Music and example of the sense variously drawn out from one verse to another