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SHORT ANSWER # 1
Name three works or authors of the 1100s who helped popularize stories about King Arthur in England |
Authors:
1) Geoffrey of Monmouth 2) Wace 3) Layamon |
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SHORT ANSWER #2
Name any two authors who wrote sonnets that either were NOT about love |
Donne and Milton
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SHORT ANSWER #3
Who first used the word “metaphysics” |
John Dryden
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SHORT ANSWER #4
Average age of marriage for women and men in the Renaissance |
women: 25-26
Men: 27-28 |
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SHORT ANSWER #5
Either the title or the name of the author of the famous and influential sixteenth-century work that describes the persecution and killing of Protestants |
Foxe, Book of the Martyrs
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SHORT ANSWER #6
The name that goes in the blank in this excerpt from a poem by Pope that was quoted in class... Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, Let _____ be! and all was light |
Newton
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SHORT ANSWER #7
(a) Why called Big-Endians and Little-Endians (what they disagree about)? (b) What real group (of 16th-18th century Europe) do the Big-Endians represent? (c) What real group (of 16th-18th century Europe) doe the Little-Endians represent? |
a) because this is the group that argued you should open an egg at the bigger end; the "Little Endians"- argued you should open an egg at the smaller end.
b) The Catholics c) The Protestants |
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SHORT ANSWER #8
During which literary period are Jane Austen's novels published and what are her attitudes was toward "Romanticism," love and marriage? |
Austen's novels were published during the Romantic period, but she would be classified as a Realist than a Romantic
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SHORT ANWER #9
pecific ways Paradise Lost both resembles and differs from earlier epics |
~The epic hero is unclear- Eve or Adam could be heroic figures especially in their repentance, some people thought Satan was the epic hero b/c he set out to do a task and he completed it, other possible hero is Christ b/c he ultimately save humankind
~largest scope of time of any epic ~battle is the war in heaven but the real battle is a moral/spiritual battle between Satan and humans |
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SHORT ANSWER #10
Renaissance humanism (i.e., the interests or work of Renaissance "humanists"), including both what it is and what it isn’t (that is, how it differs from “humanism” as often understood today). |
-cultural and educational reform
-developed during the fourteenth and turn-of-the fifteenth centuries -humanists sought to create citizens, women as well as men, in many cases, who would be able to speak and write with eloquence and clarity, and thus be capable of participating in the civic life of their communities and to persuade others to virtuous and prudent actions. -Famous early humanist: Petrarch (we read some of his works in class). -Many humanists were churchmen -Modern humanism is the rejection of a higher power |
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SHORT ANSWER #11
hat characterizes the “Renaissance” or “early modern” period in England, including specific events, inventions, discoveries, or developments (historical, political, etc.) other than Petrarchan love and specifically literary developments. |
-Massive artistic flowering in England under the Tudor monarchs
-Discovery of the New World and travel and colonization generally -Introduction of the Printing Press -The Protestant Reformation and other religious developments -The Tudor dynasty and all that came with that -new power of monarch was given on a basis by the notion of the divine right of kings to rule over their subjects. James I was a major proponent of this idea. -Humanism, properly understood. |
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DATES
Old English |
500s-1100
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Middle English |
1100-1500
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Renaissance or Early Modern |
1500-1660
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Restoration and 18th century |
1660-1780
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Romantic |
1780-1830's
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Within Restoration/18th century: |
Dryden: 1660-1700
Pope: 1700-1740 Johnson: 1740-1780 |
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TITLES/AUTHORS
Old English |
The Dream of the Rood
Anonymous |
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TITLES/AUTHORS
Middle English |
Malory: Morte Darthur
Chaucer: General Prologue (to The Canterbury Tales) |
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TITLES/AUTHORS
Renaissance/Early Modern |
Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning; Meditation 17; The Holy Sonnets;
Queen Elizabeth: The “Golden Speech”; Speech to the Troops at Tilbury Herbert: The Collar; Denial; Jordan (2); Love (3);Prayer (1); Herrick: Corinna’s Going A-Maying; To the Virgins to Make Much of Time; Upon Julia’s Clothes; His Prayer to Ben Jonson; To His Book’s End; Ben Jonson: Still To Be Neat Milton: Paradise Lost; On the Late Massacre; When I Consider How My Light Is Spent; How Soon Hath Time; Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint; Sidney: Astrophil and Stella; Spenser: Amoretti; Wroth: Pamphilia to Amphilanthus; Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt; My Galley; Surrey: Drayton: Ode to the Virginian Voyage; Idea; |
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Restoration/18th century |
Dryden 1660-1700
Dryden: Annus Mirabilis; Marvell: To His Coy Mistress; Pope 1700-1740 Swift: A Description of a City Shower; Gulliver’s Travels; Johnson 1740-1780 Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare; James Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson; Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a country Churchyard |
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TITLES/AUTHORS
Romantic |
Tennyson: Idylls of a King;
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TITLES
Epics |
“Paradise Lost”
“Morte Darthur” “Idylls of the King” |
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Romances |
“Wuthering Heights”
"Morte Darthur" "Idylls of the King" |
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Rhyming Couplets |
"Annus Mirabilis"
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Blank Verse |
“Paradise Lost”
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Works involving King Arthur |
“Morte Darthur”
“Idylls of the King” |
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Satires |
“Gulliver’s Travels”
“A Description of a City Shower” |
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Poems exemplifying Carpe Diem |
“To His Coy Mistress”
“To the Virgin, to Make Much of Time” "How Soon hath Time" |
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Poems Describing London |
"Annus Mirabilis"
"A Description of a City Shower" |
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Petrach
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invented Petrarchan/Intalian Sonnet
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Wyatt
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brought Petrarch/Italian Sonnet to England
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Surrey:
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invented English/Shakespearean Sonnet
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Describes poetry--including most of old English poetry--in which the formal principle of versification involves a certain number of stressed syllables
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alliterate accentual
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Old English expression for this world in which portals live
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middangeard
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Old English word for minstrel or bard (someone who recites or sings tales)
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scop
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Race of people who inhabited Britain before it was conquered by Germanic tribes
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Celts
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French-speaking people who conquered England
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Normans
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A knight follower of a lord
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Thane
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Name commonly used for medieval plays based on biblical stories
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mystery plays
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An Old English word meaning "fate"
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wyrd
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a kind of medieval, often religious, in which abstractions appear in personified form
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morality play
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Any of one of the Germanic tribes who invaded and inhabited England in about the 5th century
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Anglos/Saxons
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a literary genre in which stories are told that involve, magic, adventure, idealism, and sometimes love
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romance
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poem with the following rhyme scheme:
ababbcbccdcdee |
spenserian sonnet
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poem with rhyme scheme
abbaabbacddcee |
petrarchian sonnet
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poem with rhyme scheme:
ababcdcdefefgg |
English sonnet
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Poetic technique of cataloguing the parts or attributes
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cavalier poets
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name referring to someone who fought on side of parliament in english civil war
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roundheads
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unrhymed iambic pantameter
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blank verse
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seize the day
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carpe diem
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far fetched figure of speech; often shows wit
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metaphysical conciet
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self contradictory phrase
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oxymoron
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subject of many remaissance poems
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petrarchan love
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kind of poem that conveys a feeling of loss or mourning
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elegy
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The practice of simplifying a complex idea
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reductionism
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orignially meaning mind, merely a clever person
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wit
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elements of similar function or importance are similarly phrased
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parallelism
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one of two important political parties in 18th century, associated with the established church (church of England)
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Tones
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one of two important politcal parties in 18th century, later called liberal, favored religious toleration
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whigs
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a development involving increasing numbers of factories
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industrial revolution
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figure of speech involving opposing or strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences of ideas
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antithesis
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literary work which treats a trivial subject in a grand style
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mock epic
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meant "reality"
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nature
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literary practice/genre using irony
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satire
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a group organized in 1662, for purpose of advancing scientific discovery
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the royal society
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During what period were rhyming couplets (especially rhyming pantamater) dominate poetic form?
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18th century/restoration
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during what period was there a sonnet craze?
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renaissance/early modern
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