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16 Cards in this Set
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How many sonnets were in Shakespeare's sequence
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154
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who did shakespeare write the sonnets for
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The Earl of Hampton
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Hampton's fiance was also known as
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the dark lady
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Synecdoche
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when a part of something stands for the whole
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Hyperbole
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Literary exaggeration
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What is the Earl of Hampton relation to Shakespeare
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Patron
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Why did the theater's close
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play and mortality
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Why does Shakespeare begin writing poetry
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because the theaters closed and it left him with no job
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Jonne
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the father of and the best metaphysical poet
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metaphysical poetry
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more than the physical words on the page, something greater than what he actually wrote
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Who decided they did not want to be catholic
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John Donne
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Who went to Oxford at twelve and got a law degree at seventeen
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John Donne
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When Jonne Donne was 30 he falls in love with whom
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17 year old Anne More
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What was the problem in John and Anne's marriage? What was his punishment?
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he didn't get her father's permission
before he married her, he was put in jail for coronal knowledge of a juvenile |
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How many kids did they have after he got out off jail
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12
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the two types of sonnets are
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Elizabethan and Shakespearean
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