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One of Hrothgar's courtiers and his chief spokesman |
Unferth |
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Hrothgar's Queen |
Welthow |
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Generous king, built Herot as a place where he can share his prosperity |
Hrothgar |
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One of Beowulf's kinsmen who helps him fight the dragon |
Wiglaf |
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King of the Geats at the poem's beginning |
Higlac |
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Hrothgar's closest friend and advisor |
Esher |
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Author of Beowulf |
Unknown |
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When was Beowulf written? |
750 A.D. |
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What language was it written in? |
Anglo-Saxon or the local language |
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Scop |
Traveling singer/poet |
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Kenning |
Compound expression in Old English poetry which has metaphorical meaning |
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Wyrd |
Fate |
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Epic Hero |
Brave example of his culture/society who confronts supernatural powers |
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Caesura |
Pause in line of poetry formed by rhythms of natural speech rather than by metrics |
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Sir Thomas Wyatt |
Introduced England to the sonnet |
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Sir Philip Sidney |
Considered a renassaince man |
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Edmund Spencer |
Prince of Poets |
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Sir Walter Raleigh |
Founded colony of VA |
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William Shakespeare |
-Produced most famous sonnets -Wrote Macbeth |
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After feudalism's collapse, it was replaced in the late 1500s by an economy based on |
-Banking -Commerce -Land ownership |
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Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon marked the beginning of the |
Protestant Reformation |
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After England defeated Spain in 1588 what happened? |
England became a major sea power |
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England, Scotland, and Wales were united under who? |
James I |
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The rebirth of interest in science, art, and all learning that fluorished in ancient Greece and Rome is known as what? |
The Renaissance |
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The Reformation typified the ideals of the Renaissance by |
Questioning principles that had not been questioned for centuries |
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Which two literary forms reached their fullest popularity during the Elizabethan Age? |
Sonnet and verse drama |
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What was considered the finest example of prose writing during the Elizabethan Age? |
King James Bible |
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Unlike writers of previous centuries, poets and playwrites of the age... |
Expected financial reward |
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Elizabethan playwrites (aka Shakespeare)... |
Were unable to support themselves by their plays alone |
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Many Elizabethan writers or their families were associated with what? |
Universities and the court |
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Poetry whose chief purpose is to express emotion is called |
Lyric poetry |
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The sonnet originated in what country? |
Italy |
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After Shakespeare and other playwrites died, poetic drama... |
Became rare in English lit |
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Elizabethan playwrites found their inspiration in what? |
Translations of ancient Greek and Roman plays |
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Brief comedies and dialogues that were produced during the Elizabethan Age were called what? |
Interludes |
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The first comedy of the Elizabethan Age |
Ralph Roister Doister |
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A very stylized form of Elizabethan drama involving dancing |
Masque |
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Queen Elizabeth died in what year? |
1603 |
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As a literary term, the Elizabethan Age... |
Continued into the reign of king James I |
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Author of Easter Wings |
George Herbert |
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Author of holy sonnets 4, 10, and 14 |
John Donne |
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Author of Paradise Lost |
John Milton |
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Author of Pilgrim's Progress |
John Bunyan |
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Author of Rape of the Lock |
Alexander Pope |
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Author of A Journal of the Plague Year |
Daniel Defoe |
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Wrote Auld Lang Syne |
Robert Burns |
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Wrote Gulliver's Travels |
Jonathan Swift |
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Author of Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard |
Thomas Gray |
