In Paradise Lost, Satan says: “We may with more successful hope resolve / To wage by force or guile eternal war, / Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.” What is the “eternal war” Satan and his followers w
A. To plant a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden
B. To turn into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life
C. To remove God from his throne
D. To corrupt God’s creation of man and woman
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L’Allegro and II Penseroso respectively celebrate and()
A. Mirth and Sadness
B. Mirth and Melancholy
C. Sadness and Melancholy
D. Melancholy and Mirth
Paradise Lost also follows the tradition of invocation by appealing to _____()
A. the heavenly Muses
B. Holy Spirit
C. Apollo
D. the Ideal
Blank verse is a poetic form in which each line is written in _____()
A. rhymed,iambic pentameter
B. unrhymed, iambic pentameter
C. unrhymed, iambic tetrameter
D. rhymed, trochaic pentameter
The rhyme scheme of Spenserian sonnet is abab bcbc cdcd ee, which is very distinctive from that of Shakespearean sonnet()
A. abab cdcd efef gg
B. abba abba cdcd cd
C. abba abba cde cde
D. abab cdcd efef aa