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23 Cards in this Set
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Wyrd |
Old English word for fate |
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Elegy |
Serious meditative poem Sometimes used for a funeral |
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Vernacular |
The way people speak |
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Mystery plays |
A sequence or "cycle" of plays based on the Bible and produced by the city guilds |
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Guilds |
Organizations representing the various trades and crafts |
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Vernacular literature |
Language of the streets. For people not classically trained in literature |
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Affective piety |
Reverence expressed not through quiet meditation, but through emotion. I.e. crying, sobbing |
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Verisimilitude |
Believable. Identify with |
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Mystical writing |
Can be written about knowable things. Also can be written about unknowable things |
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Apophatic writing |
Unknowable in real life. Revelations of Divine Love is apophatic writing. Subset of mystical writing. Apophatic writing is all things that can't be seen in real life |
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Anchorites |
These Women were seperate from society and lived inside the church and practiced Meditatio Christi |
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Humanism |
New idea from Medieval times. Opposite of neoplatonism. People make their own choices and not just pawns used by the spiritual unseen world |
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Dialogio |
Italian word A debate between 2 characters |
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Neoplatonism |
Everything controlled by the spiritual world. Ones fate was predetermined |
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Regency period |
Late 1700's to early 1800's Pride and Prejudice |
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Primogeniture |
System of which property was held by the aristocracy class |
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Entailment |
Property of non-aristocratic families. Women can't inherit the property. |
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The Aesthetes |
What matters is appearance. If you can't be art, you should wear it |
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Political satire |
Mockery with a purpose. Humor around politics |
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Guardian and Ward |
A guardian has a ward |
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West end accent |
Working class accent |
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Dowry |
A gift that goes along with the women when she is married to her husband |
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Aside |
When a character breaks the 4th wall to communicate with the audience in a play |
