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28 Cards in this Set
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Who is Hrothgar?
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The king of the Danes. Hrothgar enjoys military success and prosperity until Grendel terrorizes his realm. A wise and aged ruler, Hrothgar represents a different kind of leadership from that exhibited by the youthful warrior Beowulf. He is a father figure to Beowulf and a model for the kind of king that Beowulf becomes.
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Who is Nicholas?
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An Oxford student named Nicholas, who studied astrology and was well acquainted with the art of love.
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Who is Absolon?
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he foppish and fastidious parish clerk, Absalon, who is also attracted to Alison and believes her husband to be away, appears kneeling at the bedchamber's low "shot-wyndowe" (privy vent) and asks Alison for a kiss
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Who is Robin?
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Robin is the Miller
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What is a Cokewold?
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A cokewold is a man who's wife is cheating on him.
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Who wrote Everyman?
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Author is unkown
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Who is Everyman?
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He represents all of mankind
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Who is Good Deeds?
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Good Deeds: The only friend willing to accompany Everyman to the afterlife.
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Who abandon's Everyman?
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Discretion, Strength, Everyman's Five Wits, Beauty
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Who are the seven deadly sins?
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pride
envy gluttony sloth lust avarice wrath |
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Who is Olivia?
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Olivia is a fictional character from William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, believed to have been written around 1600 or 1601. She is at the center of the various plots, both the comedic and the romantic. She has various suitors, but ends the play with Sebastian, the brother of the protagonist, Viola. Olivia is a character who allows her emotions to control her.
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Who is Cesario?
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Cesario is actually Viola, and is the confidant of Orsino
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Who is Duke Orsino?
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Duke of Illyria, in love with Olivia
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What is a pastoral?
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A genre in literature, art or music that depicts such shepherd life, usually in an idealized manner and for urban audiences.
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What is a Morality Play?
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An allegorical play popular in the 15th and 16th centuries; characters personified virtues and vices
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What is skeltonics?
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Skeltonics, short verses of an irregular metre much used by the Tudor poet John Skelton. The verses have two or three stresses arranged sometimes in falling and sometimes in rising rhythm. They rely on such devices as alliteration, parallelism, and multiple rhymes and are related to doggerel. Skelton wrote his verses as works of satire and protest, and thus the form was considered deliberately unconventional and provocative.
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What is metempsychosis?
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The passing of the soul at death into another body either human or anima
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What is Psychomachia?
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The Psychomachia (Battle for Mansoul) by the Late Antique Latin poet Prudentius is probably the first and most influential "pure" medieval allegory, the first in a long tradition of works as diverse as the Romance of the Rose, Everyman, and Piers Plowman.
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Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Who wrote The Tunning of Elynour Rummyng?
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John Skelton
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Who wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?
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Christopher Marlowe
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Who wrote Doctor Faust?
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Christopher Marlowe
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Who wrote Twelfth Night?
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William Shakespeare
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What is Blank Verse?
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Blank verse is the technical name for unrhymed iambic pentameter — i.e., verse of five feet per line, with the stress on the second beat of each foot. It's one of the most common kinds of verse in English: many passages of Shakespeare's plays are in blank verse, as is Milton's Paradise Lost and Wordsworth's Prelude.
Under no circumstances should you confuse blank verse with free verse. |
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What is an Iamb?
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An iamb (the adjective is "iambic") is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Because each foot consists of two syllables, the iambic is known as a duple meter. The other most common duple meter is trochaic. Note that you can distinguish iambic from trochaic meter only by examining the first and last feet in a verse, since they both alternate stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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What is a pentameter?
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A line of verse with five feet is known as pentameter (Greek penta, "five"). The most common verse form in English is iambic pentameter, that is, five feet in each verse, each containing an iamb (the second of two syllables stressed).
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What is the subject of sonnet 18?
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. |
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What is the subject of sonnet 60?
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, Crooked elipses 'gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow: And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. |
