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Test 1 (Term first) Flashcards

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worldview

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what is a philosophy of life, its a foundation for viewing life and making desicions

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celts

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earliest of people

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Anglo-Saxon (Germanic tribe)

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reintroduced paganism

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Anglo-Saxons

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created the 1st phase of English code of comitatus wyrd heroism

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weregild

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four world views of Anglo-Saxon

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code of comitatus

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loyalty of warriors

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wyrd (fate)

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mixture of pagan and Christian

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heroism

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bravery, courage, superhuman strength (personal glory)

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weregild

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man price

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Beowulf

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greatest Saxon poem

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Beowulf

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oldest surviving poem

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a long narrative poem, great national hero, lofty language, and struggle of good and evil

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four qualities of a epic

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Kenning

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metaphors from compound nouns

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alliterations

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major poetic device rather than rhyme

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litotes

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understatements

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Scyld

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the first Danish King

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Hrothgar

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current king (built Heorot)

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Hygelac

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King of the Geats

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Ecgtheow

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brother to king Hygelac, Beowulf’s father

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battle of hastings

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starts the medieval period Norman invasion

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French

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what language dominated this era?

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Civil war

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ends the medival period and starts the English renaissance

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5th century

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rise of the roman catholic church

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Medieval Period

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crusades to repel Muslims 14th century black death 1/3-1/2 died

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William Caxton

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Invented the printing press

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medieval era

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when was the religion of the catholic church dominated all aspects of life

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literary period

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end in the civil war (war of roses)

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feudalism (lord/vassal)

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land for service; 2 clauses

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chivalry

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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

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religious

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medieval characteristic:

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31
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Canterbury tales

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framed story: story within a story

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chaucer

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Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

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Chaucer

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father of English literature

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chaucer

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made vernacular English acceptable in middle English

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French

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first was vernacular English, second change was?

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36
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Thomas a becket

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32 pilgrims traveling to a shrine of who?

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37
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estates satire

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the satire of the Canterbury Tales

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estates satire

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satire which exposes corruption at all levels of society

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39
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knight

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the nobility, meek as a maid,

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squire

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a lover and lusty backeler, lockes of crulle

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Sir Thomas Malory

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known for a knight and a member of parliament

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Sir Thomas Malory

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Author of Le Morte d’Arthur

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43
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Book 21 chapter 5

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what book and chapter is it of Le Morte D’ Arthur

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44
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Bedivere

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threw Excalibur back into the water to the Lady of the Lake when Arthur was wounded

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45
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Holy sonnet 10

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death be not proud

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Holy Sonnet 10

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one short sleep past, we wake eternally and death shall be no more

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Holy Sonnet 14

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batter my heart

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Holy Sonnet 14

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Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.”

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To the virgins, to make must of time

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gather ye rosebuds, while ye may….tomorrow will be dying….

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The pulley

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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

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How soon hath time

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subtle thief of youth….toward which time leads me and the will of heaven

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When I consider how my light is spent

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ere half my days, in this dark world and wide…..they also serve who only stand and wait

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The Author to her Book

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I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet

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English Renaissance Period

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period of rebirth

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English Renaissance Period

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began with the civil war

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3rd phrase of the early modern English

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language of the English Renaissance

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Henry VIII

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broke away from the Catholic Church because of divorce

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English Renaissance Period

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the language is very patriotic

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mary I

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The Catholic queen known for her protestants

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Victorian era

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gold age for British literature

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English Renaissance Period

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which Era is known for tragedies, sonnets, and comedies

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British Renaissance Period

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accepted the authority of Christian worldview of moral absolutes

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Renaissance

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means rebirth

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humanism

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scholar studied the ancients in light of God’s word

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ornate, flower language artificial, experimental in form, patriotism

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Renaissance characteristics

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William Shakespeare

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greatest English writer universal themes/issues deep reaching emotions

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memorable writng: words and phrases

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why is Shakepeare the greatest English writer?

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macbeth

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known as the Scottish play

69
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James I in 1606

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who and when was Macbeth written for

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Tradegy

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genre of Macbeth

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pride and ambition

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what are the flaws of macbeth

72
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ambition and guilt

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two major themes of Macbeth

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ambition

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power corrupts

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guilt

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emptiness of seared conscious

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minor themes

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a universal idea or lesson

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Macbeth

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fair is foul, foul is fair

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paradoxes

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Macbeths uses

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first apparition

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Which apparition says “Beware Macduff”?

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second apparition

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Which apparition says “None of woman born shall harm Macbeth”?

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Third Apparition

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Which apparition says “Birnan wood will come to Duns inane”?

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Puritan Era

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oliver Cromwell (lord protector)

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Didacticism

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language was used for instruction and learning

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characteristics of puritan

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spirit of criticism: scientific discovery, deep spiritual/introspective truth explored through unique symbolism

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John Bunyan

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author of pilgrim’s progress

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John Milton

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Author of Paradise Lost

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pilgrim’s progress

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greatest allegory in English

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metaphor

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a direct comparison between two unlike things. Metaphors may take several forms

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paradise lost

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the greatest English epic

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Metaphysical poets

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school of Donne

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metaphysical poets

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style: unconventional tones ,paradoxes, metaphysical

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simile

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a comparison using like as of than as a connective device

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conceit

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an extended or far fetched metaphor inmost cases comparing things that apparently hav almost nothing in coomon

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hyperbole

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an overstatement a comparison using conscious exaggeration

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allusion

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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

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personification

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the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

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apostrophe

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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

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paradox

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an apparent contrdition or illogical statement

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allegory

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a narrative that exists on at least two level simultaneously

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symbol

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any concrete thing or may action in a poem that implies a meaning beyond its literal sense

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Pilgrim’s progress

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what the est allegory

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private symbol

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one that has acquired certain meaings froma single peot’s repteaed use of it

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incidental symbols

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things that are not usually considered symbolic ut may be particular to a poem

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traditional symbols

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spring fall, seasons symbols that hold roughly the same meanings or members of a given society

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sonnet

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in a sonnet there is a moment where it changes volta adn turn

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john donne

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master of the metaphysical conceit

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compass

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the best example of a metaphysical conceit

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John Donne

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author of Holy Sonnet 10

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apostrophe

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what figurative language does Holy sonnet 10 use?

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Holy Sonnet 14

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theme: surrendering to God completely control of your heart

110
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George Herbert

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metaphysical poet know for devotional lyrics

111
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The pulley

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which of george herbert’s poems’ theme: restlessness is what brings man to God

112
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lack of rest

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what is the conclusion of the pulley

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cavalier poets

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tribe of ben Ben johnson was the leader of this group

114
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cavalier poets

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royalist supporters of king charles I

115
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sonnets

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what did the cavlier poets avoid?

116
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Rober Herrick

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author to the virgins, to make must of time?

117
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make use of time and youth

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the theme: o the virgins to make mus of time

118
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to the virgins, to make must of time

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uses urgency and sun as symbols

119
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To the virgins, to make must of time

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known for carpe diem poem

120
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how soon hath time and “when I consider how my light is spent”

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Milton’s two petrarchan sonnets

121
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how soon hath Time

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theme: waiting for God’s time

122
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thief

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in “how soon hath time” was is time?

123
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when I consider how my light is spent

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theme: God’s use for us despite our weaknesses

124
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pun, illision

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figurative language for “when i sondier how my light is spent?”

125
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colonial era

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american puritian Era is also known as

126
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american puritan Era

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rejection of materialism God’s judgment of sin

127
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Anne Bradstreet

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first women to publishd her foo

128
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extended metaphor

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the author to Her book uses which figurative langauage

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how writers feel about their work q

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the author to her book theme:

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