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Beowulf era

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medieval

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canterbury tales era

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medieval

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confessions era

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medieval

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inferno era

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medieval

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kebra negast era

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medieval

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koran era

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medieval

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sir gawain era

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medieval

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Aeneid era

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ancient

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chuang tzu (zhuangzi) era

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ancient

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gilgamsh era

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ancient

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jataka era

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ancient

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medea era

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ancient

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odyssey era

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ancient

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Hamlet era

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renaissance

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paradise lost era

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renaissance

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petrarch era

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renaissance

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chuang tzu (zhuangzi) author

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chuang chou

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chuang tzu (zhuangzi) language

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chinese

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aeneid author

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virgil

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aeneid language

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latin

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gilgamesh author

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sin-leqi-unninni

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gilgamesh language

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babylonian

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the jataka author

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unknown

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the jataka language

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pali

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Medea author

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euripides

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medea language

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greek

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the odyssey author

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homer

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the odyssey language

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greek

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canterbury tales author

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chaucer

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canterbury tales language

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middle english

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beowulf author

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unknown

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beowulf language

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old english

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confessions author

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St. Augustine

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confessions language

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latin

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the inferno author

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dante

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the inferno language

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italian

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kebra nagast language

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Ge’ez

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kebra nagast author

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unknown

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Koran author

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muhammad

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Koran language

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arabic

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight author

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unknown

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sir gawain and the green knight language

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middle english

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letter, and rime sparse author

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petrarch

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letters, and rime sparse language

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italian

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letters, and rime sparse date

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14 century AD

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a French word meaning Rebirth.

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renaissance

47
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the middle ages, then are in the ____ of the Classical western world and modern western world

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middle

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The modern western world began with the

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renaissance

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The Renaissance began in _____ and spread throughout the rest of Europe.

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Italy

50
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an Italian renaissance thinker, first coined the term Dark Ages to refer to the backward thinking which he believed characterized Europe before the Renaissance

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Petrarch

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Middle Ages have since become synonymous with

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Dark Ages

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Petrarch discovered some lost manuscripts of ____ an ancient Roman orator

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cicero

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Among the manuscripts was Cicero’s ______, which inspired Petrarch to write his own series of Letters.

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Letters to Atticus

54
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The title refers to how scattered and out of control he feels as a result of his love for a woman named

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laura

55
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________ is made up of 366 sonnets (corresponding to the number of days on a calendar)

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scattered rhymes

56
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All sonnets have ____ lines

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14

57
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Petrarchan sonnets divide the ____ lines into an _____ and ____

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14, octet, sestet

58
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Shakespearean sonnet divide the 14 lines into _____ and ____

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quatrain and couplet

59
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paradise lost author

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john milton

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paradise lost date

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1667 AD

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Paradise lost language

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early modern english

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paradise lost is an ___ modeled on classical epics such as ____ and ____

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epic, the odyssey and the aeneid

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milton’s meter is

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heroic verse

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in English, heroic verse is in

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Iambic Pentameter

65
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basic unit of measurement in a line of poetry

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foot

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a specific type of foot made of foot made of two syllables (unstressed, stressed)

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Iamb

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each line of a poem written in pentameter contains five feet, so a poem in iambic pentameter contains five iambs

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pentameter

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in the classical languages heroic verse is in

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dactylic hexameter

69
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What is satan’s chief sin

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pride

70
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Adam’s natural gift is

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wisdom and strength (authority

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Eve’s natural gift

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beauty

72
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the angel that guards the entrance to the gate of paradise

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gabriel

73
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the entrance is on the ____ end of paradise

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eastern

74
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the angel that is humanity’s confidant

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raphael

75
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who advises adam

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raphael

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____ shows adam visions of the future redemption of humanity to encourage him and eve during their exile from paradise

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michael

77
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who escorts adam and eve from paradise

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michael

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Hamlet author

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shakespeare

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hamlet date

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1601 AD

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Hamlet language

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early modern english

81
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Hamlet is how old

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30 yr

82
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hamlet is the prince of

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denmark

83
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who is the mother of hamlet

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gertrude

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hamlet’s uncle and reigning king of denmark

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claudius

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who married gertrude after murdering his brother, hamlet’s father

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claudius

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chamberlain and counselor of the king his is a fool

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polonius

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brother of Ophelia and son of Polonius

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Laertes

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daughter of polonius, sister of Laertes

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Ophelia

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Hamlet’s girlfriend

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ophelia

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hamlet’s best friend

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horatio

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prince of Norway

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Fortinbras

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Hamlet’s to be or not to be speech is about

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suicide

93
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the recurring theme in hamlet

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mortality

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who is Yorick

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the jester

95
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who remains to tell the story in its entirety

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horatio

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since all of the ruling family are dead, ____ takes up the kingship of Denmark

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Fortinbras

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the election lights on fortinbras: he has my dying voice

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hamlet

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