English unit 3 questions Flashcards
What were humanist still interested in during the renaissance?
Theology and religious questions.
Who were two famous humanist?
Sir Thomas More and Erasmus
What was the main focus of humanist interest?
Earthly matters
During the renaissance educated people began to embrace what?
an intellectual movement known as humanism
Why are historical periods in exact and generally unknown to the people who live during them?
They are named later by historians to describe general trends rather than precise beginnings and endings
The intellectual movement known as humanism-
Joined the wisdom of the classics with that of the Bible, emphasizing ideals of wisdom and virtue
Why did the invention of the printing with movable type have a great impact?
The wide availability of reading material allowed ideas to spread quickly
How did the monk Martin Luther contribute to the beginning of the Reformation
By developing a personal form of Christianity not based on papal decrees
In the mid-1500s, many people in England were dissatisfied with the Church of England because they-
feld that the church was in sufficiently reformed, merely a copy of Catholicism
King Henry VIII of England could be considered a “Renaissance man” because he-
Was literary, musical, athletic, and scholarly
England’s independence from the Catholic countries of the Mediterranean was ensured by-
The English navy’s defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588
What caused an eleven-year gap in the line of English monarchs between 1649 an 1660?
England was ruled by Parliament and by the Puritan dictator Oliver Cromwell
What did humanist look to for wisdom and knowledge?
The Bible, Latin and Greek classics
What did humanist combine in order to teach people how to live and rule?
They combined classical ideals with traditional Christian thought in order to teach people how to live and rule
What did the invention of the printing press help?
And what happened?
- It helped spread this new emphasis on the humanities
- as more books became available to more people than ever before
What did Henry VIII do in 1534?
he broke away from the church because the pope refused to grant him an annulment with his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and declared himself head of the Church of England.
What marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in England?
Henry breaking away from the Roman Catholic Church
What did the English wish during the reformation?
To put an end to the widespread corruption among the clergy and to the politic power that Rome and its ally Spain wielded over English affairs
What was the Spanish Armada?
The most decisive event in England’s emergence as a naval power and independent political force in Northern Europe was the defeat of the great armada of Spanish ships by the Royal Navy in 1588.
What is an armada?
Is a fleet of warships
What questions did humanists ask when they went to the old Latin and Greek classics?
“What is a human being?”
“What is a good life?”
“How do I lead a good life?”
What did most scholars forget during the long period of the Middle Ages? What did they use?
- The forgot the Greek language
- they used a form of Latin that was very different from the Latin of Ancient Rome
What did people discover during the Renaissance?
They discovered the marvels of old Greek and Latin classics-books that had been tucked away on the cobweb-covered shelves of monasteries for hundreds of years
What could people during the renaissance now do?
Learn to read Greek, and reform the Latin they read, wrote, and spoke
What was the renewal of the human spirit?
A renewal of curiosity and creativity
Why was there a renewal of the human spirit?
Because people became more curious about themselves and their world than people in the Middle Ages
What is a Renaissance person?
And emerge tube and productive human being who is interested in science, literature, history, art, and other subjects. EXAMPLE: Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence
Where did the new energy and creativity start? Why?
In Italy because it was where considerable wealth had been generated from banking and trade with the East.
When did the Renaissance begin and end?
It started in the 14th century and lasted into the 16th century.
True or False?
The Roman Catholic Church was very rich, powerful in political affairs, in ways we would probably object object today during this time
True
Many of the popes were what?
Were lavish patrons of artists, architects, and scholar. EXAMPLE: Pope Julius II
What did humanist seek to harmonize?
The Bible and the classics, to strengthen, not discredit, Christianity
What was humanist goal?
To recover ancient writings, share the findings, become teacher to report them,
What did Johanns Gutenberg print?
Latin Bible, at Mainz,Germany
Who also made a printing press that help spread in England?
William Caxton
Perhaps the bet known of all the Renaissance humanist
Desiderius Erasmus
He traveled most of Europe, wrote Latin, could address his many writings to all the educated people of Western Europe, taught Greek at Cambridge, and became friends with Thomas More
Desiderius Erasmus
These two men loved life, laughter, and classical learning, and they were both dedicated to the Church, though they were impatient with some of the Church’s corrupt practices at that time
Sir Thomas More, Erasmus of Rotterdam
More’s treatise on human society
Utopia, became immediately popular, and it has been repeatedly translated into English and many other languages. It is useful adjective for describing impractical social schemes: utopian
He found a new kind of Christianity, based on not what the pope said but on a personal understanding of the Bible.
Martin Luther
Henry wanted her as her second wife
Anne Boleyn
What did Henry do after Catherine refused to accept the annulment?
He closed all of England’s monasteries and sold the rich buildings and lands to his subjects.
He was loyal to Henry, now lord chancellor of England, then was beheaded
Sir Thomas more
True or false?
people believed at first that Protestant church at first was not reformed enough that is was a copy of Catholicism
True
He used Mary’s execution as an excuse to invade England
King Philip of Spain,
What did king Philip do?
Assemble a vat fleet of warship for the purpose: the famous Spanish Armada
What did England’s Royal Navy do?
Assisted greatly by nasty weather in the Irish Sea, destroyed the Spanish Armada
What did the sinking of the Spanish Armada assure?
England’s and all northern Europe’s independence from the powerful Catholic countries of the Mediterranean
What did Elizabeth become after the defeat if the Armada?
A symbol of peace, security, and prosperity to her subjects and provided inspiration to scores of English authors
The main subject of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets is-
Love
The form of a Shakespearean sonnet is
Three quatrains followed by a couplet
The turn after the first two quatrains of a Shakespearean sonnet usually signifies a-
Summation of the poem theme
What is a quatrain?
A group or stanza of four lines
In a Shakespearean sonnet, how’s my different sounds do the ends of lines contain?
Seven
What is a poems tone?
The attitude an author or speaker take toward the material in a poem
How can the sounds of a poem affect its tone?
By imagining the poem spoken by a human voice, the reader can get a sense of the poem’s tone
Which were all mysteries about Shakespeare’s sonnets
- Who is the dark lady
- Who is the beloved friend
- Could the sonnets be rearranged to tell a story
All the couplet at the end of the sonnets
Add a statement of impact and importance
According to the speaker in sonnet 130, music, roses, and perfume-
Are false comparisons to make with the charms of true love
In lines 10-12, the speaker compares a bird at day break to his-
Mood
What kind of sorrow does the speaker think about in line 3 of Sonnet 30 when he says, “I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought”?
Sorrow over things he wanted but never got
The metaphor in Sonnet 30 come mostly from the fields of-
Law and finance
