Name: ____________________ Date: __________ Block #: _____

Renaissance Poetry Pre-Assessment

Vocabulary Matching:
1. Meter _____ a. stanza consisting of four lines
2. Sonnet _____ b. smallest unit of rhythm in a poem consisting
3. Pastoral poetry _____ of two or more syllables
4. Carpe diem_____ c. stanza consisting of two rhymed lines
5. Metaphysical poetry _____ d. the arrangement of words to form patterns of
6. Conceit _____ stressed and unstressed syllables
7. Hyperbole _____ e. overstatement used to emphasize a point or
8. Allusion _____ create humor
9. Octave _____ f. 14-line lyric poem with a complicated rhyme
10. Sestet _____ scheme and a defined structure
11. Quatrain _____ g. stanza consisting of eight lines
12. Couplet _____ h. poetry that presents shepherds in idealized
13. Foot _____ rural settings
14. Renaissance _____ i. stanza consisting of six lines
j. brief reference to a fictional or historical
person, place, or event, or to another literary
work or passage
k. poetry that is primarily devotional and often
mystical in content, even when dealing with
subjects such as physical love and
relationships
l. extended metaphor comparing very
dissimilar things
m. “seize the day”; Cavalier poets often
discussed and advocated for this philosophy
n. 1485-1660; “rebirth” period in European
civilization immediately following the
Middle Ages
Sonnet Type Identification:
“Sonnet 90” 15. What type of sonnet is “Sonnet 90”?
She used to let her golden hair fly free. a. Italian/Petrarchan
For the wind to toy and tangle and molest;
b. English/Shakespearean
Her eyes were brighter than the radiant west.
(Seldom they shine so now.) I used to see
Pity look out of those deep eyes on me.
("It was false pity," you would now protest.)
I had love's tinder heaped within my breast;
What wonder that the flame burnt furiously?

She did not walk in any mortal way,

But with angelic progress; when she spoke,
Unearthly voices sang in unison.
She seemed divine among the dreary folk
Of earth. You say she is not so today?
Well, though the bow's unbent, the wound
bleeds on.

“Sonnet 18” 16. What type of sonnet is “Sonnet 18”?

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? a. Italian/Petrarchan
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
b. English/Shakespearean
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course
untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his
shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Multiple Choice Questions:
17. What major event sparked the era of the Renaissance from the Middle Ages?
a. The invention of the printing press
b. The black plague
c. The publishing of Dante’s Inferno
d. Labor laws

18. Which of the following characteristics does not describe the Renaissance period?
a. an interest in humanism
b. the rediscovery of ancient knowledge
c. an interest in indulging in pleasure
d. affirmation in Christianity

19. Who popularized and developed the English sonnet?

a. Francis Petrarch
b. John Donne
c. William Shakespeare
d. John Bunyan

20. What is the correct rhyme scheme for an English sonnet?

a. aabb ccdd eeff aa
b. abab cdcd efef gg
c. abba abba cdecde
d. aaab aaab cccddd

21. What is the correct rhyme scheme for an Italian sonnet?

a. abba abba cdecde
b. abab cdcd efef gg
c. aabb ccdd eeff aa
d. aaab aaab cccddd

22. Which literary work is an example of an allegory?

a. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
b. “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
c. Utopia
d. The Pilgrim’s Progress