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Memoria Press The British Tradition II: Poetry & Prose from the Elizabethan to the Neoclassical Age (1485-1784 A.D.) > Quiz 2 > Flashcards

Quiz 2 Flashcards

1
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glittering; sparkling

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glistering

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2
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three-fold; moral, religious, and personal

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allegory for The Faerie Queene

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3
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conquered; defeated

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vanquished

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4
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a destructive force

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bale

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5
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a romantic epic

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The Faerie Queen​e

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6
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with artful subtelty; deceptively

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cunningly

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7
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an elongated part that trails along

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train

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8
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inspiring; arousing

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kindling

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9
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romantic epic

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the genre of The Faerie Queene

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10
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filled with shock

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aghast

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11
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expresses a harmony, sweetness, and color never dreamed of in the English language

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The Faerie Queene’s versification

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12
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the jaws or mouth of a voracious animal

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maw

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13
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nine total: eight in iambic pentameter, one in iambic hexameter

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Spenserian Stanza

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14
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great power; might

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puissance

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15
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disheartened; intimidated

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daunted

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16
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small serpents and little deformed monsters, “unkindly Impes of heaven”

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Monster’s offspring

17
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The Queen of Faerie land; symbolizes Queen Elizabeth

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Gloriana

18
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black poison full of books and paper, frogs and toads

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Monster vomit

19
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“They cannot finde that path, which first was showne, / But wander too and from in wayes unknown”

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the crisis in stanza 10 of The Faerie Queene

20
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“A monster vile, whom God and man does hate”

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in the Errours den

21
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what the monster most fears

A

the light

22
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bears a bloody cross on his breastplate and shield in rememberance of Christ and his crucifixion; faithfully true in word and deed

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Redcrosse Knight

23
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Lady Una’s metaphorical warning

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Fire is often without smoke.

24
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“Making her death their life, and eke her hurt their good”

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antitheses

25
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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”*
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the fair Lady Una

26
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what the Monster and/or Wood of Error symbolizes

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the bondage of Roman authority

27
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analogy of little monsters swarming the legs of Redcrosse

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a shepherd getting attacked by a cloud of gnats

28
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“most lothsom, filthie, foule, and full of vile disdaine”

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describes the Monster

29
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  • “Who see your vanquisht foes before you lye:*
  • Well worthy be you of that Armorie,*
  • Wherein ye have great glory wonned this day”*
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can be compared to Ephesians 6:13

30
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“Where plaine none might her see, nor she see any plaine”

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antimetabole

Memoria Press The British Tradition II: Poetry & Prose from the Elizabethan to the Neoclassical Age (1485-1784 A.D.) (17 decks)

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