exam Flashcards
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Highly developed religion and mythology
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Celtic
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Druids
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Celtic
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Origin of King Arthur
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Anglo Saxon
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Male dominated literature
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Anglo Saxon
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Hero’s revered for courage, loyalty, and strength
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Anglo Saxon
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Stories of adventure
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Celtic
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Fairy’s are common
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Celtic
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Seafarer
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Anglo Saxon
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Beowulf
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Anglo Saxon
10
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Doomsday Book
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Middle Ages
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Most literature was written in Latin
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Middle Ages
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The four literary forms are Epics, Romances, Allegories, and Ballads
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Middle Ages
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Lord Randall
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Middle Ages
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Middle Ages
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Christopher Harlowe
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Elizabethan
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Edmin Spencer
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Elizabethan
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Drama reached its height
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Elizabethan
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Great outburst of criticism
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Elizabethan
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King James I
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Jacobean
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Francis Bacon
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Jacobean
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Cavalier Poets
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Caroline
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Robert Herrick
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Caroline
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Poetry flourishes
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Caroline
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John Milton
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Commonwealth
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Thomas Hobbs
Commonwealth
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Andrew Marble
Commonwealth
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Considered a literary epoch obsessed with the Catholic church
Commonwealth
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Theatres were banned
Commonwealth
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Dark themes
Jacobean
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Preoccupied with Evil
Jacobean
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Who is the father of English poetry?
Jeffrey Chaucer
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Who was the first to write in English?
Jeffrey Chaucer
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Who commissioned the Domesday book?
William the Conqueror
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Wrote Mort de Author.
Thomas Marllory
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Was a real life knight?
Thomas Mallory
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Had a pet pig
Spencer
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Wrote the Faerie Queene
Spencer
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Wrote to the virgins
Herrick
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Was poisoned by political folk
Marville
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Married Anne Hathaway
Shakespere
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a pause or break within a line of poetry, usually indicated by the natural rhythm of the language. Used beginning of english poetry (today most commonly iambic)
Caesura
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repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another
Alliteration
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a part used to express the whole, or vice versa. Example: 50 Sails=50 boats
Synecdoche
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special poetic renaming of things. Most often two words for one. Example: to the whale’s home instead of saying to the sea
Kenning
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the naming of a person, or human characteristic by some object or attribute with which is closely associated. Example: Crown, Majesty= ruler
Metonymy
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a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
Elegy
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a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
Allegory
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a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture
Folk Ballad
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a narrative poem created by a poet in imitation of the old anonymous folk ballad
Literary Ballad
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a metrical tale, typically a bawdily humorous one, of a type found chiefly in early French poetry
Fabliaux
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a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes
Quatrain
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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
Couplet
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a received form that has 14 lines and a slightly flexible rhyme scheme
Petrarchan Sonnet
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poems that William Shakespeare wrote on a variety of themes
Shakespearean Sonnet
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highly intellectualized poetry marked by bold and ingenious conceits, incongruous imagery, complexity and subtlety of thought, frequent use of paradox, and often by deliberate harshness or rigidity of expression
Metaphysical Poetry
