Quiz 2 Flashcards
glittering; sparkling
glistering
three-fold; moral, religious, and personal
allegory for The Faerie Queene
conquered; defeated
vanquished
a destructive force
bale
a romantic epic
The Faerie Queene
with artful subtelty; deceptively
cunningly
an elongated part that trails along
train
inspiring; arousing
kindling
romantic epic
the genre of The Faerie Queene
filled with shock
aghast
expresses a harmony, sweetness, and color never dreamed of in the English language
The Faerie Queene’s versification
the jaws or mouth of a voracious animal
maw
nine total: eight in iambic pentameter, one in iambic hexameter
Spenserian Stanza
great power; might
puissance
disheartened; intimidated
daunted
small serpents and little deformed monsters, “unkindly Impes of heaven”
Monster’s offspring
The Queen of Faerie land; symbolizes Queen Elizabeth
Gloriana
black poison full of books and paper, frogs and toads
Monster vomit
“They cannot finde that path, which first was showne, / But wander too and from in wayes unknown”
the crisis in stanza 10 of The Faerie Queene
“A monster vile, whom God and man does hate”
in the Errours den
what the monster most fears
the light
bears a bloody cross on his breastplate and shield in rememberance of Christ and his crucifixion; faithfully true in word and deed
Redcrosse Knight
Lady Una’s metaphorical warning
Fire is often without smoke.
“Making her death their life, and eke her hurt their good”
antitheses
guides Redcross Knight on the mission:
- “As one tha tinly mournd: so was she sad,*
- And heavie sat upon her palfrey slow:*
- Seemed in heart some hidden care she had”*
the fair Lady Una
what the Monster and/or Wood of Error symbolizes
the bondage of Roman authority
analogy of little monsters swarming the legs of Redcrosse
a shepherd getting attacked by a cloud of gnats
“most lothsom, filthie, foule, and full of vile disdaine”
describes the Monster
- “Who see your vanquisht foes before you lye:*
- Well worthy be you of that Armorie,*
- Wherein ye have great glory wonned this day”*
can be compared to Ephesians 6:13
“Where plaine none might her see, nor she see any plaine”
antimetabole
