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40 Cards in this Set
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courtier of henry VIII
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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helped "change the nature of english poetry"
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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prey (Anne) like Caesar's deer, is claimed by powerful ruler (Henry VIII) is an example of what
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an allusion
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"fair neck"
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chopped off
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fourteen-line lyric poem in iambic pentameter
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sonnet
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presents problem, poses question and expresses idea
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octave
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resolves, answers or drives home
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sestet
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who is known for the faerie queen?
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edmund spenser
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what is edmund spenser known for?
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the faerie queen
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1579
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age of Elizabethan literature began
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using one virtue or quality for each
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allegory
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little love poems
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amoretti
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why could Caesar (Henry) kill her?
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she belonged to him
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paradox
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contradiction
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contradiction
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something that's opposite
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amoretti means what?
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little love poems
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examples of a contradiction?
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fire and ice (fire- desire; ice- cold)
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comparison of two different things
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eternizing conceit
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3 four line stanzas and a couplet
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Spenserian sonnet
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first 8 lines
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problem
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6 lines
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solves
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what does duessa represent
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falsehood
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una represents?
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truth
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referring from another work
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allusion (specifically the bible; revelation)
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three things known about shakespeare's sonnets
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154 sonnets
speaker is male chief subject: love |
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turn
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when it turns from a problem to a solution
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like to the lark is an example of ___
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simile
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what does sonnet 73 talk about
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differences in age of himself and lover (assumes he will die first)
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3 metaphors in sonnet 73
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bare tree in autumn
ruins of church twilight after sunset |
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what do these metaphors suggest
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old age and death
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seasonal images
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age, passing of time
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themes
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love, death, time
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possibly one of the most famous sonnets
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sonnet 116
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part of something represents the whole
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synecdoce
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rosy lips and cheeks
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health, youth (show time)
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grim reaper is an example of a
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allusion
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sonnet 130 ridicules
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fashionable exaggerated metaphors other poets were using to describe women
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makes connection between two dissimilair things
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conceits
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your eyes are suns that set me on fire
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ex of a conceit
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reasons for writing sonnet:
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make fun of conceits
let readers know true love- not idealized love |
