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1
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what was the rennasance time period

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1500-1650

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key innovations of rennacance

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sonnet and blank verse

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what is the blank verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter

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what is the sonnet made of/ like

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about love, abab}x3, gg, 14 lines 4 stanzas

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wrote wrote La Divina Commedia (the divine comedy; 3 parts Inferno-hell, purgatario- purgatory, paradisio-heaven) *all in Italian- important because the regular Italian person could understand- more people began to read,

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dante

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wrote Decameron

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Baccaccio

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printed the first book on a printing press in England. Among the first books printed was Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

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WIlliam Caxton

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8
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the father of English literature

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Chaucer

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9
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Wrote the Defense of Poesie

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Sidney

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10
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wrote Paradise Lost

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John Milton

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what was the neoclassicm time period

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1650-1800

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12
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innovations of neoclassism

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ode, satire, heroic couplet

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13
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what did neoclassism value

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order and reason

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what is a heroic copuplet

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a rhymed iambic pentameter couplet that is end-stopped

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15
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who wrote Rape of the Lock

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Pope

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who wrote “A Modest Proposal”

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Swift

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17
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some consider him the first novelist when he wrote Robision Cusoe

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Daniel Deore

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18
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wrote A Dictionary of the English Langue

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Samuel Johnson

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what was the vicotorian time period

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1837-1901

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what is serialization

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Publishing novels in sections

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21
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how did the victorians veiw nature

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scientific veiw on nature

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wrote
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility

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Jane Austen

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wrote
David Copperfiled
Oliver Twist
Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol
Great Expectations

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Charles DIckens

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wrote Vanity Fair

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WIlliam Makepeace Thackery

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worte Wuthering Heights

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emily bronte

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wrote Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Bronte

27
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wrote Idylls of the King

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

28
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wrote
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass

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Lewis Carroll

29
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romantic time period

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1800-1830

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values in romantisism

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individualism, importance of nature, childhood/imagination, negative capability

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what is negative capability

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Ability to become one with something outside yourself

32
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wrote Songs of Innocence, songs of Experience, was insane

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william blake

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father of romanticism

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william wordsworth

34
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wrote Lyrical Ballads, “My Heart Leaps Up”

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wiliam wordsworth

35
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“Kubla Khan”, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”opium addiction

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Samuel Taylor Colridge

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Invented the “Byronic hero” or Poet Hero
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
“She Walks in Beauty”

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George Gordon, Lord Byron

37
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what was the time period of realism/naturalism

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1880-1930

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aspects of realism/naturalism

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harsh truth, Verisimilitude,dariwin ideals,

39
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what is Verisimilitude

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writing things down just as they are

40
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The Portrait of a Lady, The American, The Europeans, Daisy Miller

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Henry James

41
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“Story of an Hour”
“Desiree’s Baby”
The Awakening
feminsit

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kate chopin

42
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Red Badge of Courage

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Stephe Crane

43
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The call of the Wild (1903), Sea - Wo;d (1904), White fang (1906) , “To Build a fire”

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Jack London

44
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what was the time period of modernism

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1900-1945

45
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what was the fruedian subconcious

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Human sexuality

46
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what did moderism value

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imagination, new things, strange, symbolism, free verse, stream of consiousness

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father of imaginism

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ezra pound

48
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fomous imaginsits

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ezra pund, ee cummings, william carlos, rober frost, james joyce

49
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wrote Ulysses
Portrait of an artist
imstipred stream of conciousness

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james joyce

50
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who inspired stram of conciousness

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james joyce

51
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what type of art forms were formed

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Cubism, dadasim, srrelaism

52
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what words summed up modernism

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“make it new”

53
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what did postmodernism value

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nothing is special, life is meaningless

54
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what are aspects of postmodernism

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technology, mixing of fiction and nonfiction, multi-culutralism

55
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what is the postmoderinsm time period

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1946-now

56
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what is esoteric

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Esoteric means hard to understand (only a few can understand)

57
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who worte Great railway bazaar

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Paul theroux

58
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who wrote
The names

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N scott Momadayf

59
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who wrote Ragtime

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E.L. Doctorow

60
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who wrote The waking poems

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Theodore Roethke

61
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who wrote Garbage

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AR ammons

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