A. Thomas Wyatt
B. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
C. Sir Thomas more
D. None of the above
Submitted by: Lubna shahzadi
The first to use blank verse was Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
Related Mcqs:
- Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry ?
A. Sir Thomas Wyatt
B. William Shakespeare
C. Earl of Surrey
D. Milton - Blank verse refers to which of the following ?
A. Prose
B. Unrhymed iambic pentameter
C. Rhyming verse
D. Rhyming couplets - What is blank verse ?
A. iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets
B. the verse form of the Shakespearean sonnet
C. free verse, without rhyme or regular meter
D. unrhymed iambic pentameter - What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?
A. L’Allegro
B. Lycidas
C. Paradise Lost
D. The Divine Comedy - What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?
A. having no rhyming end
B. having no rhythmic flow
C. having no significance
D. having no blanks in the verse - A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as ?
A. Spenserian Stanza
B. Ballad
C. Ottava Rima
D. Rhyme Royal - In verse, “meter” refers to which of the following ?
A. The length of a written line
B. The measured pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
C. The height of the stage
D. The number of words in a line - What form of verse is usually sung and details a dramatic or exciting episode ?
A. An ode
B. An elegy
C. An epitaph
D. A ballad - Which of the following best defines alliterative verse ?
A. A traditional form with repeated consonant sounds
B. An Anglo-Saxon form written in iambic pentameter with traditional rhymes
C. A popular form in the 9th and 10th centuries
D. A form brought to England in the years during the Norman invasion - What is the verse form of Marie de France’s Lanval ?
A. Dactylic pentameter
B. Octosyllabic couplets
C. Heroic couplets
D. Clerihew
4 Comments
First use of Blank verse in English. Henry Howard.
option B is correct
Blank verse is unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter, commonly used in English literature.
Blank verse first appeared in sixteenth-century Italy during the Renaissance, an adaptation of unrhymed poetry from ancient Greece and Rome. It was later introduced to England in the 1550s by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey with his translation of Virgil’s The Aeneid.