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  • 1. 
    Which is the earliest known English play in blank verse?

  • The Faerie Queene
  • Gorboduc
  • All for Love
  • Doctor Faustus

  • 2. 
    Which writer is noted for publishing a dictionary in 1755 and a book called The Lives of the Poets?

  • Giorgio Vasari
  • Denis Diderot
  • Ambrose Bierce
  • Samuel Johnson

  • 3. 
    What term is used for a word that has been taken into a language from another language?

  • pidgin
  • synonym
  • loanword
  • neologism

  • 4. 
    What is the name given to a pair of rhyming lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning?

  • iambic pentameter
  • quatrain
  • couplet
  • sonnet

  • 5. 
    What term refers to the structure of interrelated actions, consciously selected and arranged by the author?

  • plot
  • denouement
  • theme
  • climax

  • 6. 
    What is the name given to a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically five-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme?

  • stanza
  • tanka
  • ballad
  • sonnet
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