Literature Unit 3 Flashcards
When was the elizbethan period?
1485 - 1625
What two rebirths were happening in the Elizabethan period at the same time?
English Renaissance, English Reformation
What is this period also called?
Tudor Age
What Italian piece of literature was introduced by Wyatt and Surrey?
The sonnet
First piece of literature in the Elizabethan period.
Utopia by Sir Thomas More.
The faerie queene was what and written by who?
Romantic allegory written by Edmund Spenser.
Who wrote the first price of literary criticism? Who was it fathered by?
Sir Philip Sidney, fathered by Francis Bacon.
What literary genre reached its zenith during the Elizabethan Period?
Drama.
Who was Renaissance drama epitomized by?
William Shakespeare
Who helped translate the Bible for the English people?
William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
Who was the book of martyrs written by?
John Foxe.
Who was the martyr in The Book of Martyrs?
Doctor Rowland Taylor.
What is the pattern in a line of poetry consisting of one accented dimmable and one or two unaccented syllables?
A foot.
What is rhyme?
The correspondence of sounds.
What is rhythm?
The regular recurrence of sounds.
What is end rhyme?
The repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds which come at the end of lines in poetry.
What is a blank verse?
Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What was the faerie queene’s name?
Gloriana.
What does the Red Cross Knight depict?
The virtue of holiness.
What does the Virgin Una depict?
Truth.
What monster does the Red Cross Knight encounter and defeats?
Error.
