6th - SS Chapter 24 Key Terms

Question 1

Related to commerce or trade.

Answer 1

Mercantile

Question 2

French for “rebirth”; refers to the period of cultural revival in Europe from the 1300s to the 1500s.

Answer 2

Renaissance

Question 3

Someone who gives money or other support to a person or group

Answer 3

Patron

Question 4

A cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works.

Answer 4

Humanism

Question 5

The view that religion need not be the center of human affairs.

Answer 5

Secularism

Question 6

Everyday spoken language.

Answer 6

Vernacular

Question 7

The belief in the importance of the individual opposed to the larger community.

Answer 7

Individualism

Question 8

An imaginary, ideal place.

Answer 8

Utopia

Question 9

Work of literature that makes fun of its subject, often mocking vice or folly.

Answer 9

Satire

Question 10

An art form in which an artist etches a design on a metal plate with a needle and acid.

Answer 10

Engraving

Question 11

To ban dangerous or offensive ideas, or remove material from published works or prevent its publication.

Answer 11

Censor

Question 12

Using balanced or symmetric elements to form a pleasing design.

Answer 12

Proportion

Question 13

A mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface.

Answer 13

Linear perspective

Question 14

A poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyming pattern.

Answer 14

Sonnet

Question 15

A series of comic episodes usually involving a mischievous character.

Answer 15

Picaresque