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
Invented the printing press
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medieval era
when was the religion of the catholic church dominated all aspects of life
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literary period
end in the civil war (war of roses)
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feudalism (lord/vassal)
land for service; 2 clauses
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chivalry
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
medieval characteristic:
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Canterbury tales
framed story: story within a story
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chaucer
Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?
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Chaucer
father of English literature
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chaucer
made vernacular English acceptable in middle English
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French
first was vernacular English, second change was?
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Thomas a becket
32 pilgrims traveling to a shrine of who?
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estates satire
the satire of the Canterbury Tales
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estates satire
satire which exposes corruption at all levels of society
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knight
the nobility, meek as a maid,
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squire
a lover and lusty backeler, lockes of crulle
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Sir Thomas Malory
known for a knight and a member of parliament
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Sir Thomas Malory
Author of Le Morte d'Arthur
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Book 21 chapter 5
what book and chapter is it of Le Morte D' Arthur
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Bedivere
threw Excalibur back into the water to the Lady of the Lake when Arthur was wounded
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Holy sonnet 10
death be not proud
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Holy Sonnet 10
one short sleep past, we wake eternally and death shall be no more
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Holy Sonnet 14
batter my heart
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Holy Sonnet 14
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
gather ye rosebuds, while ye may....tomorrow will be dying....
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The pulley
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
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
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
I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet
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English Renaissance Period
period of rebirth
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English Renaissance Period
began with the civil war
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3rd phrase of the early modern English
language of the English Renaissance
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Henry VIII
broke away from the Catholic Church because of divorce
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English Renaissance Period
the language is very patriotic
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mary I
The Catholic queen known for her protestants
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Victorian era
gold age for British literature
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English Renaissance Period
which Era is known for tragedies, sonnets, and comedies
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British Renaissance Period
accepted the authority of Christian worldview of moral absolutes
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Renaissance
means rebirth
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humanism
scholar studied the ancients in light of God's word
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ornate, flower language artificial, experimental in form, patriotism
Renaissance characteristics
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William Shakespeare
greatest English writer universal themes/issues deep reaching emotions
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memorable writng: words and phrases
why is Shakepeare the greatest English writer?
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macbeth
known as the Scottish play
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James I in 1606
who and when was Macbeth written for
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Tradegy
genre of Macbeth
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pride and ambition
what are the flaws of macbeth
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ambition and guilt
two major themes of Macbeth
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ambition
power corrupts
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guilt
emptiness of seared conscious
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minor themes
a universal idea or lesson
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Macbeth
fair is foul, foul is fair
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paradoxes
Macbeths uses
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first apparition
Which apparition says "Beware Macduff"?
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second apparition
Which apparition says "None of woman born shall harm Macbeth"?
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Third Apparition
Which apparition says "Birnan wood will come to Duns inane"?
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Puritan Era
oliver Cromwell (lord protector)
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Didacticism
language was used for instruction and learning
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characteristics of puritan
spirit of criticism: scientific discovery, deep spiritual/introspective truth explored through unique symbolism
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John Bunyan
author of pilgrim's progress
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John Milton
Author of Paradise Lost
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pilgrim's progress
greatest allegory in English
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metaphor
a direct comparison between two unlike things. Metaphors may take several forms
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paradise lost
the greatest English epic
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Metaphysical poets
school of Donne
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metaphysical poets
style: unconventional tones ,paradoxes, metaphysical
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simile
a comparison using like as of than as a connective device
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conceit
an extended or far fetched metaphor inmost cases comparing things that apparently hav almost nothing in coomon
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hyperbole
an overstatement a comparison using conscious exaggeration
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allusion
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
the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
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apostrophe
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
an apparent contrdition or illogical statement
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allegory
a narrative that exists on at least two level simultaneously
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symbol
any concrete thing or may action in a poem that implies a meaning beyond its literal sense
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Pilgrim's progress
what the est allegory
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private symbol
one that has acquired certain meaings froma single peot's repteaed use of it
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incidental symbols
things that are not usually considered symbolic ut may be particular to a poem
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traditional symbols
spring fall, seasons symbols that hold roughly the same meanings or members of a given society
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sonnet
in a sonnet there is a moment where it changes volta adn turn
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john donne
master of the metaphysical conceit
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compass
the best example of a metaphysical conceit
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John Donne
author of Holy Sonnet 10
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apostrophe
what figurative language does Holy sonnet 10 use?
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Holy Sonnet 14
theme: surrendering to God completely control of your heart
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George Herbert
metaphysical poet know for devotional lyrics
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The pulley
which of george herbert's poems' theme: restlessness is what brings man to God
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lack of rest
what is the conclusion of the pulley
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cavalier poets
tribe of ben Ben johnson was the leader of this group
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cavalier poets
royalist supporters of king charles I
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sonnets
what did the cavlier poets avoid?
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Rober Herrick
author to the virgins, to make must of time?
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make use of time and youth
the theme: o the virgins to make mus of time
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to the virgins, to make must of time
uses urgency and sun as symbols
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To the virgins, to make must of time
known for carpe diem poem
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how soon hath time and "when I consider how my light is spent"
Milton's two petrarchan sonnets
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how soon hath Time
theme: waiting for God's time
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thief
in "how soon hath time" was is time?
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when I consider how my light is spent
theme: God's use for us despite our weaknesses
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pun, illision
figurative language for "when i sondier how my light is spent?"
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colonial era
american puritian Era is also known as
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american puritan Era
rejection of materialism God's judgment of sin
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Anne Bradstreet
first women to publishd her foo
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extended metaphor
the author to Her book uses which figurative langauage
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how writers feel about their work q
the author to her book theme:
