English Literature MCQs

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Who introduced the Italian sonnet to the British Isles during the reign of King Henry VIII ?


aThomas Wyatt


bHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey


cJohn Donne


dBoth A and B


View Answer Both A and B

What genres of plays did William Shakespeare write ?


aTragedies


bComedies


cRomances


dAll of the above


View Answer All of the above

What author speaks of the exemplary story as a fundamental narrative unit in which it is important to follow chronological order ?


aJohn Foxe


bJohn Lyly


cSir Thomas More


dSir Walter Raleigh


View Answer John Foxe

Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence. All of the following are Shakespearean plays EXCEPT?


a“Two Gentlemen of Verona”


b“The Winter’s Tale”


c“The Tempest”


d“Faustus”


View Answer “The Tempest”

Fill in the blank. Prior to the rise of the famed tragedians of the late 1580s,_____________ were the great headliners of the Elizabethan stage?


aClowns


bWomen


cPoliticians


dPantomimes


View Answer Clowns

John Lyly’s work significantly shaped the writing of which famous writer ?


aWilliam Blake


bWilliam Wordsworth


cSamuel Taylor Coleridge


dWilliam Shakespeare


View Answer William Shakespeare

Fill in the blank. The greatest insurrection of the______________ age in England was over religion?


aHanover


bProtestant


cTudor


dNone of these


View Answer Tudor

The Petrarchan sonnet is typically composed in what form of meter ?


aTrochaic trimeter


bTerza rima


cIambic pentameter


dAnapestic pentameter


View Answer Iambic pentameter

Romance, classical structure, and festive elements had already begun to come together in drama when what author began writing ?


aChaucer


bLangland


cHomer


dShakespeare


View Answer Shakespeare

Fill in the blank. A ____________ was a spectacle performed at court or at the manor of a member of the nobility and was staged to glorify the court or the particular aristocrat?


aMasque


bSatire


cTragedy


dComedy


View Answer Masque

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