Test 1 (Definition first) Flashcards
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what is a philosophy of life, its a foundation for viewing life and making desicions
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worldview
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earliest of people
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celts
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reintroduced paganism
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Anglo-Saxon (Germanic tribe)
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created the 1st phase of English
code of comitatus
wyrd
heroism
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Anglo-Saxons
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four world views of Anglo-Saxon
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weregild
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loyalty of warriors
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code of comitatus
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mixture of pagan and Christian
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wyrd (fate)
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bravery, courage, superhuman strength (personal glory)
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heroism
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man price
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weregild
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greatest Saxon poem
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Beowulf
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oldest surviving poem
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Beowulf
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four qualities of a epic
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a long narrative poem, great national hero, lofty language, and struggle of good and evil
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metaphors from compound nouns
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Kenning
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major poetic device rather than rhyme
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alliterations
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understatements
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litotes
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the first Danish King
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Scyld
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current king (built Heorot)
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Hrothgar
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King of the Geats
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Hygelac
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brother to king Hygelac, Beowulf’s father
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Ecgtheow
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starts the medieval period Norman invasion
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battle of hastings
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what language dominated this era?
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French
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ends the medival period and starts the English renaissance
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Civil war
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rise of the roman catholic church
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5th century
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crusades to repel Muslims
14th century black death 1/3-1/2 died
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Medieval Period
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Invented the printing press
William Caxton
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when was the religion of the catholic church dominated all aspects of life
medieval era
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end in the civil war (war of roses)
literary period
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land for service; 2 clauses
feudalism (lord/vassal)
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code of conduct (strength, courage, loyalty, aid, women) applied to the knights
ornateness
light hearted and merry
sentiment: romantic love and elevation of women
courtliness: chivalrous knights
chivalry
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medieval characteristic:
religious
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framed story: story within a story
Canterbury tales
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Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?
chaucer
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father of English literature
Chaucer
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made vernacular English acceptable in middle English
chaucer
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first was vernacular English, second change was?
French
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32 pilgrims traveling to a shrine of who?
Thomas a becket
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the satire of the Canterbury Tales
estates satire
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satire which exposes corruption at all levels of society
estates satire
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the nobility, meek as a maid,
knight
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a lover and lusty backeler, lockes of crulle
squire
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known for a knight and a member of parliament
Sir Thomas Malory
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Author of Le Morte d'Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory
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threw Excalibur back into the water to the Lady of the Lake when Arthur was wounded
Bedivere
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death be not proud
Holy sonnet 10
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one short sleep past, we wake eternally and death shall be no more
Holy Sonnet 10
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batter my heart
Holy Sonnet 14
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Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
| Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.”
Holy Sonnet 14
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gather ye rosebuds, while ye may....tomorrow will be dying....
To the virgins, to make must of time
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let him be rich and weary not yet weariness.....if goodness lead him not yet weariness may toss him to my breast
The pulley
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subtle thief of youth....toward which time leads me and the will of heaven
How soon hath time
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ere half my days, in this dark world and wide.....they also serve who only stand and wait
When I consider how my light is spent
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I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet
The Author to her Book
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period of rebirth
English Renaissance Period
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began with the civil war
English Renaissance Period
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language of the English Renaissance
3rd phrase of the early modern English
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broke away from the Catholic Church because of divorce
Henry VIII
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the language is very patriotic
English Renaissance Period
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The Catholic queen known for her protestants
mary I
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gold age for British literature
Victorian era
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which Era is known for tragedies, sonnets, and comedies
English Renaissance Period
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accepted the authority of Christian worldview of moral absolutes
British Renaissance Period
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means rebirth
Renaissance
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scholar studied the ancients in light of God's word
humanism
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Renaissance characteristics
ornate, flower language artificial, experimental in form, patriotism
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greatest English writer
universal themes/issues
deep reaching emotions
William Shakespeare
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why is Shakepeare the greatest English writer?
memorable writng: words and phrases
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known as the Scottish play
macbeth
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who and when was Macbeth written for
James I in 1606
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genre of Macbeth
Tradegy
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what are the flaws of macbeth
pride and ambition
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two major themes of Macbeth
ambition and guilt
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power corrupts
ambition
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emptiness of seared conscious
guilt
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a universal idea or lesson
minor themes
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fair is foul, foul is fair
Macbeth
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Macbeths uses
paradoxes
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Which apparition says "Beware Macduff"?
first apparition
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Which apparition says "None of woman born shall harm Macbeth"?
second apparition
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Which apparition says "Birnan wood will come to Duns inane"?
Third Apparition
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oliver Cromwell (lord protector)
Puritan Era
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language was used for instruction and learning
Didacticism
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spirit of criticism: scientific discovery, deep spiritual/introspective truth explored through unique symbolism
characteristics of puritan
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author of pilgrim's progress
John Bunyan
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Author of Paradise Lost
John Milton
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greatest allegory in English
pilgrim's progress
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a direct comparison between two unlike things. Metaphors may take several forms
metaphor
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the greatest English epic
paradise lost
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school of Donne
Metaphysical poets
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style: unconventional tones ,paradoxes, metaphysical
metaphysical poets
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a comparison using like as of than as a connective device
simile
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an extended or far fetched metaphor inmost cases comparing things that apparently hav almost nothing in coomon
conceit
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an overstatement a comparison using conscious exaggeration
hyperbole
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a metaphor making a dierct comparison to be a historical or literary even or cahracter, a myth, a biblical reference and so forth
allusion
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the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
personification
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a variety of personificaiton in which a nonhuman thing abstraction or person not physically present is derectly addressed as if it could respond
apostrophe
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an apparent contrdition or illogical statement
paradox
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a narrative that exists on at least two level simultaneously
allegory
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any concrete thing or may action in a poem that implies a meaning beyond its literal sense
symbol
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one that has acquired certain meaings froma single peot's repteaed use of it
private symbol
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things that are not usually considered symbolic ut may be particular to a poem
incidental symbols
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spring fall, seasons symbols that hold roughly the same meanings or members of a given society
traditional symbols
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master of the metaphysical conceit
john donne
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the best example of a metaphysical conceit
compass
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author of Holy Sonnet 10
John Donne
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what figurative language does Holy sonnet 10 use?
apostrophe
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theme: surrendering to God completely control of your heart
Holy Sonnet 14
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metaphysical poet know for devotional lyrics
George Herbert
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which of george herbert's poems' theme: restlessness is what brings man to God
The pulley
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what is the conclusion of the pulley
lack of rest
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tribe of ben Ben johnson was the leader of this group
cavalier poets
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royalist supporters of king charles I
cavalier poets
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what did the cavlier poets avoid?
sonnets
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author to the virgins, to make must of time?
Rober Herrick
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the theme: o the virgins to make mus of time
make use of time and youth
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uses urgency and sun as symbols
to the virgins, to make must of time
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known for carpe diem poem
To the virgins, to make must of time
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Milton's two petrarchan sonnets
how soon hath time and "when I consider how my light is spent"
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theme: waiting for God's time
how soon hath Time
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in "how soon hath time" was is time?
thief
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theme: God's use for us despite our weaknesses
when I consider how my light is spent
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figurative language for "when i sondier how my light is spent?"
pun, illision
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american puritian Era is also known as
colonial era
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rejection of materialism
| God's judgment of sin
american puritan Era
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first women to publishd her foo
Anne Bradstreet
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the author to Her book uses which figurative langauage
extended metaphor
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the author to her book theme:
how writers feel about their work q
