terms

Question 1

early modernity

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the recognizable beginning of a modern age, with rise of globalization, capitalism, humanism, increasing separation of arts and sciences from each other, empowerment of a middle class, etc.

Question 2

cultural capital

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symbolic elements such as a material belonging, skills, tastes, posture, clothing, mannerisms, credentials, etc. that one acquires from being a part of a social class

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Medievalism

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post-medieval culture’s recreation of the European middle ages

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Didactic

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intending to teach, especially moral insurrection

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Allegory

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narrative strategy that makes use of a literal level of signification and at the same time one or more metaphorical levels. abstract entities, like love or reason, may be personified

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idolatry

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the fetishtic worship of a physical object as a God

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Iconoclasm

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the description of idolatrous objects

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Tragic hero

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a high born man who is neither a paragon of virtue and justice nor undergoes the change to misfortune through any real badness or wickedness but because of some mistake

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hamartia

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mistake

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Virago

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a domineering, violent or bad-tempered woman (lady macbeth)

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providence

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the belief that nothing happens that God hasn’t planned, excludes anything like fortune or chance

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epic

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long verse narrative on a serious subject in a formal style, centered around a heroic figure whose actions determine fate of a tribe, nation or human race

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invocation

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address to a supernatural being to assist the poet in composition of the epic

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epic hero

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a heroic, quasi- divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of worlds tribe, nation

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conceit

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an extended metaphor

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Casuistry

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ethical reasoning that looks for a just/moral response to circumstances in each particular case (milton in PL)

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Soliloquy

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when an actor shares their inner thoughts, differ from a monologue because there is no one on stage with them, it is just one actor facing the audience (lady macbeth reading the letter)

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Doctrine of predestination

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idea that god plans everything, free will doesn’t exist

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Apostrophe

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direct adress (PL book 4, line 32, milton’s speech to satan)

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Monism

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belief that everything is one substance, there’s no duality in life

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Catabasis

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decent to the underworld (in the FQ when Dusses brings RC to the underworld to heal him after he was wounded)

Question 22

Invocation

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blessing, typically at the start of a canto that is calling upon muses or gods to bless the poet and the works

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Carpe diem

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“seize the day,” the speaker notes that life is short to urge beloved to make the most of the present moment

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Trope

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the nobel savage

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Associative thinking

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using other words/phrases from things that they know to depict something that someone doesn’t understand

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Semper Eadam

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always the same

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Prome

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preface and poem

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Alexandrine

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Iambic hexameter, six beats instead of five

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Orgololia

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pride

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Saracen

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any follower of Islam, almost labeled as an object or thing because they were supposedly careless for other people and gods

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Personification

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an idea or thing given human attributes

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Archaism

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mixture of old fashion words

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Epic catalogue

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giving reference to something that already existed

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Absolutist Monarchy

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a king believes that he is way above God, and no one can tell him to say or do anything

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Cunning folk

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absorbed wisdom about old folk terms

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Enjambment

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when there is a verse that continues to extend past the line of poetry

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Caesura

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Stop or cut in the midst of a line