Exam 2 Flashcards

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Comedy

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Hero falls but redeems himself

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2
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“Lost” Tabula Rasa

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Locke

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3
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Cogito ergo sum

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I think, therefore I am

Descarte

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4
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Natural Law of Science

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Newton

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5
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Natural Law in Politics

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John Locke

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6
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Dynamic

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A character who undergoes a change in personality or attitude

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7
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Catholic stop-gap meetings

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Counsel of Trent

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8
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“Luke, I am your father”- Aristotle term

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Recognition

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9
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Fear and Pity

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May be aroused by spectacular means

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10
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Age of Reason

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Enlightenment

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“O brave new world that has such people in’t!”- Spoken by

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Miranda

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12
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“Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.”

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Rousseau

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13
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Indulgence

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Catholic principle rejected by Martin Luther

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14
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Hume

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All knowledge comes from experience but experience is personal

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15
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Round

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A fully developed character, one whom readers feel might exist in real life

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16
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Laissez faire

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Beatles album and song from 1969; “Let it be”; Adam Smith

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17
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Tragic flaw of Macbeth

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Ambition

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18
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Descartes

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All measurable elements are either tangible or intangible

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19
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NOT the word on the street

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King James Bible

20
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Most important of Aristotle’s Six Elements of theater

21
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“A little water clears us of this deed”-“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”

22
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Hermione Granger and Luna Lovegood

23
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Handel

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Composer for English absolutists

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Duke of Milan

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Adam Smith
Natural law in economics, laissez faire, Wealth of Nations (1776)
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Jean-Jacque Rousseau
Natural law in education, proposes "back to nature", all men are born good, but learns evil, trust your heart not man's mind
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John Locke
Natural law in education; "Tabula Rasa", the blank slate, people will become whatever is written on the blank slate
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1687
Newton's Mathematical Principles published, world is orderly and knowable, society can become such if we apply laws
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1688
Glorious revolution in England, end of Absolutism
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Aristotle's 6 elements of tragedy
Plot, character, thought, diction, song, spectacle
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Reversal
A change by which the action veers around to its opposite
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Recognition
A change by which from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune
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The Scene of Suffering
A destructive or painful action, such as death on stage, bodily agony, or wounds
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The characters of tragedy
Good, propriety, true to life, consistency
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Pity
Aroused by unmerited misfortune
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Fear
Aroused by the misfortune of a man like | ourselves
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Static
Character who stays the same throughout a work
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Protagonist
central character in the text, the one with whom readers usually sympathize
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Antagonist
a person or force (the enemy) that opposes the protagonist
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Flat
Character who is not fully developed but sketched out through one or two distinguishing or recognizable traits
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Third-person objective
the facts of a narrative are reported by a seemingly neutral, impersonal observer or recorder
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Third-person Omniscient
An all-knowing narrator not only reports the facts but may also interpret events and relate the thoughts and feelings of any character
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Third-person limited
a narrator reports the facts and interprets events from the perspective of a single character
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Martin Luther
initiates the Protestant Reformation by posting his 95 theses on the door of Wittenberg Castle Church
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Copernicus
theorizes that the sun, not the earth, is at the center of the solar system
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Council of Trent
25 sessions; Catholics decide NOT to give in to the Protestants, instead they reaffirm all their traditional doctrines