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Semester Flashcards

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Property, military, social

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Feudalism

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2
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Established basis for constitutional law

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Meagan Carta

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3
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Attempt to free Jerusalem from from Turkish control. They failed but they were exposed to middle easts sophisticated civilization

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Crusades

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War waged by England against France. After the war English was represented by the yeomen and their arrows

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The Hundred Years’ War

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Reflect some of: supernatural events, sensational, sorrow, or tragic subject matter, refrain, omission of detail

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Ballads

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6
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Everyday language spoken in London and East Midlands

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Vernacular used by Chaucer

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Father of English poetry

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Chaucer

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Story that in less any number of different narratives

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Frame story used by Chaucer

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Narrative set in a world of pure wish fulfillment, where idealized and superhuman heroes fight and almost always conquer the forces of evil

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Romance

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10
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Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines

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Refrain

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Near perfect hero
An evil enemy
Quest
Test of the hero
Supernatural elements
Good vs evil
Female figures
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Elements of romance

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Larger than life figure who usually has mysterious origins and in the course of his life performs extraordinary deeds with the aid of magic forces

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Romance hero (Aurthur)

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13
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Uh sound

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Schwa (e)

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14
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Wrote poem for wife telling her not to fret when de died bc they wouldn’t be separated. Used metaphysical conceits

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A valediction: forbidding mourning

John Donne

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Do the ends justify the means?
Questionable ethics
Total control and power

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Niccoló Machavialli
Prince

Machiavellian

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Ninety-five theses
Many religious practices arose
New theology
Reformation reflected in literature

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Martin Luther

17
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Allusion to Hemingway
The word and universe are affected. Birth and death are an entrance to a different community
God is are only security

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Meditation 17 John Donne

18
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Apostrophe- refers to Death an abstract being.

He says we don’t need to fear death, it is death who dies. There is no such thing as death bc of afterlife

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Death be not proud

John Donne

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The house of Tudor brought peace to the land and introduced???

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Reformation and Renaissance to England

20
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Birth of Modern English

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The Great Vowel Shift

21
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Deus Es machina

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God from the machine. An artificial devise arbitrarily used to resolve plot

22
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Plays before Renaissance

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Miracle and mystery: taught ppl stories from bible
Morality: taught ppl how to live and die
Interlude: one act plays

23
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9 Greek Goddesses of inspiration

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Muse

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