Renaissance Part I Formative
A formative assessment over part of Renaissance literature
- 1.The literature of the English Renaissance was mostly written in what language(s)?
- A.
Old English
- B.
Middle Engllish
- C.
Modern English
- D.
Latin
- 2.The genres that were written during the Renaissance included the following:
- A.
Epic poetry
- B.
Romances
- C.
Pastorals
- D.
Limericks
- E.
Sonnets
- 3.Which of the following statements about sonnets are true?
- A.
The sestet states the question or problem and the octet states the solution.
- B.
The English sonnet sometimes varies in the number of lines it has.
- C.
The English sonnet usually consists of 2 quatrains and a couplet.
- D.
A rhyme scheme of ABBA ABBA CDE CDE would belong in an Italian sonnet.
- E.
The words "but," and "yet," could be used as "turns."
- 4.Bacon's essays would have been easier to understand if there had been
- A.
More parallelism
- B.
More paragraphs
- C.
More punctuation
- 5.Which of the following statements are true?
- A.
It is possible there was a parody of the Mona Lisa before DaVinci ever painted it.
- B.
A parable is a type of allegory.
- C.
Blank verse and iambic pentameter have their meters in common.
- D.
An essay is a type of poetry that was produced during the Renaissance.
- E.
Couplet is another word for quatrain.
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