english Flashcards
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faith
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Experience of the divine or holy presence, sometimes involving intellectual belied and sometimes emphasizing personal touch
Dante
- being a christian is very important
- “carrot and stick” approach
- dante’s pragmatic version made more sense to the people on earth and popular ideas
- the church overlooked the fact that it was unorthodox
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Renaissance Humanism
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- cultural zeigtgeist evidenced by poetic self assertion and a revived classical conviction that man is the measure of all things
- extolled the potential capacity of humans, reason, and the value of a good classical (philosophical) education
- Value the humanities and the liveral arts
- cultural shifts followed by the theocentric medieval period
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rationalism
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- enlightenment
- the scientific method
- logic and empirical evidence
- gathered data with the senses and followed process of observation, experimentation, and conclusion
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romanticism
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- gothic period
- american transcendentalism
- emotion over reason
- medieval over classical
- nature and supernatural over industrialization and urbanization
- self over community or society
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Realism
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- victorian period
- reality over fantasy
- here and now over universal morality
- urbanization
- practical egalitarianism
- post colonialism
- rise of literacy
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Post modernism
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- late 20th century
- movement in the arts, architecture, criticism
- skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture, fiction, literary criticism
7
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Symbol
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- while holding literal meaning, also stands for something else
- bald eagle freedom
Dante
- trio of walking symbols
- the she wolf, lepeord, lion that are very much not in italy
8
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metaphor
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- comparison of two seemingly dissimilar ideas/ objects via an often unstated common attribute
- no like or as
- you are my sunshine
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allegory
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- multiple interpretations beyond the literal level but one that operates at multiple symbolic levels simultaneously
- extended metaphor relying on a set of symbols suggest a secondary or tertiary way of understanding of the narrative
- name (Sin, everyman, una) who acts as personifications of abstract concepts rather than rounded entities
Dante - the allegory of the pilgrimage of the reader on the journey starting from a low place and getting higher
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Evangelism
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- preaching the gospel to convert others to be christian
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Didacticism
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- work created with the intention of teaching a lesson of some sort
Dante - save bad chrisitains from getting lost
12
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contrapasso
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- the punishment fits the crime
- form of poetic justice
13
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Poetic justice
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- good are rewarded, bad are punished
- immediately satisfying because it follows the law
Sherlock - grimseby roylott was poisioned by the same swamp adder he used to kill his step daughter
14
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Exile
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Dante
- political exile because he lost his election
15
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classism
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- systemic individual prejudice against people based on their wealth and education
