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40 Cards in this Set
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Humanism
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Ethical philosophies prominant in European Renaissance
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Sola Scrptura
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Scripture, not the Church, has authority
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Sola fide
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Only the faith of the individual, not good works or rituals, can effect salvation
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Ministry of all Believers
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All people are equal servants of God
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Sonnet Form
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- 14 lines
- Divided into octave and Sestet - rhyme scheme: abbaabba - Love a common theme |
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Conceit
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Fanciful ingenious expresssion in form of extended metaphor
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Ballet
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native English poetic form used as dance song with short stanzas and refrains
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Sonnet Cycle
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series of sonnets on same subject and or dedicated to the same person
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Paradox
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Stateent that seems self-contradictory but reveals deeper meaning
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English/Shakespearean sonnet
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iombic pantameter w/ 3 quatrains and a couplet's turn or summary in the couplet (ababcdcdefefgg)
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Feminine Rhyme
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rhyme of two or more sylabbles with accent falling on sylable other than the last
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Dramatic unities
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needs to be unified within action, time, and place (all within 24 hour time period)
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Masque
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courtly entertainment with singing, dancing, and elaborate costumes generally in honor of birth or marriage
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter often used by Shakespeare
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enjambed line
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line of petery not stopped, spills onto following line.
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Metapyhsical Conciet
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- surprising metaphor that links unlik images throughout poem
- interchanging vocab of sexual or religious love - use of puns and paradoxes |
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Alba
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A: A gorgeous Actress
B: dawn song; portrays sadness of lovers that have to part in the morning so their spouse wont discover them |
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Interregnum
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English was a commonwealth and protectrate under the Cromwells
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Cavalier poets
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- poetry light and secular
- direct language and suspicous of earnest and intense poetry -embodied life of upperclass before Intergnum |
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Ballad Stanza
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quatrains with alternating four-stress and three-stress lines (abcb) (Herrick)
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Ciceronian Style
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writing characterized by copia, peonasm, and hypotzxis
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Copia
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abundance
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pleonasm
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elegant restatement
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hypotaxis
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complex structure full of subordinate clauses
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Senecan Style
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writing characterized by brevity, broken rhythems, and parataxis
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Parataxis
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clauses of equal importance, with short or loosley organized sentences
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Essay
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short work, usually in prose, that treats a subject from the author's point of view (Bacon)
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Aphorism
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familiar statement expresing observation or principal generally accepted as wise or true (Bacon)
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Rife's Best Quote of the Year
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"He's not comparing her to a brick shit-house or anything"
-- Amber Rife 3/6/2006 |
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Sir Thomas Wyatt (669)
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(1503-1542)
- Whose List to Hunt - They Flee From Me - My Lute Awaken - Blame Not My Lute |
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Sir Philip Sidney (967)
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(1554-1586)
- Astroaphil and Stella |
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William Shakespeare (1222)
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(1564-1586)
- Sonnets - The Tempest |
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John Donne (1647)
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(1572-1631)
- The Good Morrow - Song - The Sun Rising - A Valediction: Of Weeping - Holy Sonnets |
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Ben Johnson (1629)
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(1572-1637)
- To John Donne |
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George Herbert (1685)
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(1593-1633)
- The Altar - Easter - Easter Wings - Jordan (1) & (2) - The Collar - The Pulley - Love (3) |
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Robert Herrick (1647)
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(1591-1647)
- The Argument of his Book - To the Sour Reader - Delight in Disorder - To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time - Upon Julia's Clothes - To his Tomb-Maker |
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Andrew Marvell (1724)
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(1621-1687)
- To his Coy Mistress - The Defenition of Love |
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Francic Bacon (1748)
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(1561-1626)
- Of Truth - Of Marriage and Single Life |
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Thomas Hobbes (1762)
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(1588-1679)
- Liviathan - The Anatomy of Melancholy |
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John Milton (1810)
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(1608-1674)
- When I consider how my light is spent - Paradise Lost |
