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Love Through The Ages Flashcards

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1
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Name 4 themes in Thomas Wyatt’s ‘Who so list to hount I knowe where is a hynde’

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  • Unattainable Love
  • Lust
  • Time
  • Rules and Order
Others:
• Ideal Marriage
• Wyatt's frustration 
• Death
• Time
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Who is the Goddess in Mythology linked to Thomas Wyatt’s ‘Who so list to hount I knowe where is a hynde’

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The Goddess Diana of hunting and virginity

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Name 5 features of Metaphysical Poetry

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  • Witty humour
  • Evokes shocking response
  • Conceits
  • Hyperbolic
  • Love/Death/Religious Themes

Others:
• Elaborate Style
• Colloquial Idiom

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4
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What is syllogism?

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I haven’t done this card yet sorry xoxox

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5
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Who wrote Sonnet 116

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William Shakespeare

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Who wrote The Flea

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John Donne

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What is a cavalier poet ? Give one example

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  • Express joy and gratification of celebratory things
  • Promote the crown (Charles l)
  • Generally Carpe Diem
  • English poet in 17th Century

Example: Richard Lovelace

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Name 3 features of cavalier poetry

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  • Opposite to metaphysical: more conduct, manners and relations between people
  • Direct and colloquial language
  • Avoids religion as a subject
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What does ‘Carpe Diem’ mean

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Seize the day

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10
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Who wrote The Scrutiny

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Richard Lovelace

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Who wrote A Song(Absent from thee)

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John Wilmot

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Which poets criticised Charles II and was banned from the court

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John Wilmots

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13
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Name 2 techniques regarding Form

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  • Type of poem

* The narrative voice

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Name 3 techniques regarding Structure

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  • Layout of poem
  • Changes
  • Rhyme Scheme

Others:
• Caesura, Enjambment, End Stopping
• Repetition
• Revelation of info

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Name 3 techniques regarding Language

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  • Figurative
  • Imagery & symbolism
  • Personal pronouns
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16
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Who wrote To His Coy Mistress

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Andrew Marvell

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17
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Who wrote Ae Fond Kiss And Then We Sever

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Robert Burns

18
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Who wrote Remember

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Christina Rossetti

19
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What was the Pre-Raphaelite movement

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A movement in the 1800s that aimed to return English art to a more natural and realistic style

20
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What movement influenced Christina Rossetti

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The Pre-Raphaelite

21
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What influenced Thomas Hardy

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Romanticism and the fact he was a Victorian realist

22
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Who wrote The Ruined Maid

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Thomas Hardy

23
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Name 3 features of Victorian society

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  • Strict and placed emphasis on morals
  • Sex outside of marriage wasn’t allowed
  • Queen Victoria promoted religious family with clearly defined gender rules
24
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Explain the term ‘The Fallen Woman’

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A woman who had lost her innocence and had fallen from the grace of God. The belief was that women’s sexual experiences should be under the control of a man.

25
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Name 3 features of 1800s Romanticism

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  • Focus on individualism and emotion
  • Glorification of nature and the past
  • It was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment
26
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In Elizabethan slang what does die mean

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Orgasm

27
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Name the themes in Sonnet 116

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Marriage
Death
Time

28
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What form is The Flea by John Donne

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A dramatic monologue

29
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Name 3 types of love shown in The Scrutiny by Richard Lovelace

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Narcissistic love
Physical love
Logical love

30
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Name 3 types of love shown in A Song (Absent from thee) by John Wilmot

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Emotive love
Courtly love
Reciprocal love

31
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Name the type of love shown in The Garden Of Love by William Blake

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Restricted love

32
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Name the 3 types of love shown in Song (Ae fond kiss) by Robert Burns

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True love from his perspective

Separated love

33
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What is a synecdoche

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When you use a part of a person to represent that as a whole

34
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Name the 3 types of love presented in Remember in Christina Rossetti

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Selfless/Painful love
Separation
Mutual love

35
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Name the form of Remember by Christina Rossetti

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A Petrarchan sonnet

36
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What is the difference between a Petrarchan sonnet and Shakespearean sonnet

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Petrarchan - 2 parts, an octave and sestet, ABBA rhyme scheme,

Shakespearean - 3 quatrains, one rhyming couplet at the end

37
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Name the 4 types of love presented in The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy

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Materialistic love
Sexual (not really love more like a service)
Admirational
Lack of

38
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Name the 4 types of love presented in At an Inn by Thomas Hardy

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Potential love
Lost love
Regretted love
Unrequited love

39
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Name the 4 types of love presented in La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats

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Destructive love
Obsession
Unrequited love
Transformative love

40
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Name the 4 types of love presented in Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson

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Destructive love
Unfulfilled love
Loss of love
Faithful love

41
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Define rhetoric

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Language of argument

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