English Renaissance Period

What makes Renaissance literature different from Medieval and Old English literature?

• It revolved around Christianity and chivalry.

• It focused on the progress of arts and sciences.

• It reflected war, conquest, and bravery.

• It was meant to teach values reformation.

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What is Shakespeare's definition of tragedy?

• the stories of marriages between the unmarried characters

• the tales of suffering and calamity conducting to death

• the biographies of English kings

• the stories of talking animals and inanimate objects

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What is Shakespeare's definition of comedy?

• the stories of marriages between the unmarried characters

• the tales of suffering and calamity conducting to death

• the biographies of English kings

• the stories of talking animals and inanimate objects

What is Shakespeare's definition of history?

• the stories of marriages between the unmarried characters

• the tales of suffering and calamity conducting to death

• the biographies of English kings

• the stories of talking animals and inanimate objects

How many plays were written by William Shakespeare?

• 24

• 37

• 35

• 120

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It is the theater where many of the great plays of William Shakespeare were first performed.

• The Smart

• The Globe

• The TNT

• The PLDT

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How makes Shakespeare's plays appealing to all social classes? (Choose two answers)

• The use of crude jokes

• The themes are life, death, and love.

• The use of Latin and French languages

• The themes are medieval mystery and morality.

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Which literary work was known in the Renaissance Period?

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What is a sonnet?

• a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes

• a poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five

• a poem that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm

• a poem with strict meter and rhyme scheme

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What is stress in poetry?

• the feeling of being overwhelmed

• the rise and fall of the voice

• the emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others

• the writer's attitude toward the subject matter

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