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1
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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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3
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Origin of King Arthur

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Anglo Saxon

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4
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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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6
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Stories of adventure

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Celtic

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7
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Fairy’s are common

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Celtic

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8
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Seafarer

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Anglo Saxon

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9
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Beowulf

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Anglo Saxon

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10
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Doomsday Book

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Middle Ages

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11
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Most literature was written in Latin

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Middle Ages

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12
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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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14
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Middle Ages

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15
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Christopher Harlowe

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Elizabethan

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16
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Edmin Spencer

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Elizabethan

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17
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Drama reached its height

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Elizabethan

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18
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Great outburst of criticism

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Elizabethan

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19
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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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21
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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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23
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Poetry flourishes

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Caroline

24
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John Milton

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Commonwealth

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Thomas Hobbs

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Commonwealth

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Andrew Marble

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Commonwealth

27
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Considered a literary epoch obsessed with the Catholic church

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Commonwealth

28
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Theatres were banned

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Commonwealth

29
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Dark themes

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Jacobean

30
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Preoccupied with Evil

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Jacobean

31
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Who is the father of English poetry?

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Jeffrey Chaucer

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Who was the first to write in English?

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Jeffrey Chaucer

33
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Who commissioned the Domesday book?

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William the Conqueror

34
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Wrote Mort de Author.

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Thomas Marllory

35
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Was a real life knight?

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Thomas Mallory

36
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Had a pet pig

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Spencer

37
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Wrote the Faerie Queene

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Spencer

38
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Wrote to the virgins

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Herrick

39
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Was poisoned by political folk

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Marville

40
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Married Anne Hathaway

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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)

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Caesura

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repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another

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Alliteration

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a part used to express the whole, or vice versa. Example: 50 Sails=50 boats

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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

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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

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Metonymy

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a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

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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

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Allegory

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a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture

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Folk Ballad

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a narrative poem created by a poet in imitation of the old anonymous folk ballad

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Literary Ballad

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a metrical tale, typically a bawdily humorous one, of a type found chiefly in early French poetry

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Fabliaux

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a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes

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Quatrain

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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

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Couplet

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a received form that has 14 lines and a slightly flexible rhyme scheme

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Petrarchan Sonnet

54
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poems that William Shakespeare wrote on a variety of themes

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Shakespearean Sonnet

55
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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

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Metaphysical Poetry

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