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Who is Pilgrim's Progress by:
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John Bunyan
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what century is PP publised?
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17th century-1678
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What king ruled during the PP?
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King James
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What king was Bunyan born under?
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king charles in 1628
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Did Bunyan ever go to a Baptist chruch?
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yes in 1654
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Was Bunyan jailed for any reason?
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Yes, in 1661 for preaching at an illegal chruch service.
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Did Bunyan publish any books in prision?
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yes three
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allegory
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form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a marrative are equated with meaings that lie outside teh narrative itself.
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Symbolism
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literary representations of objects, persons,or actions emboding abstract concepts refering to them indirectly and are not exhausted by them.
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didatic literature
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literature intended for instruction
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typology
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a Puritan belief that The Old Testament prefigures The New Testament
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Calvinism
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Emphasized predestination
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What does TULIP stand for?
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T: Total Depravity
U: Uncondition election L:Limited Atonment I: Irresistible Grace P: Perserverance of Saints |
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What do Puritans stress?
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autobiographical testimony
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How do Puritans preach?
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they use vivid language that is used in everyday life.
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What is the Protestant Work Ethic?
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everything you do in your life must be done wisely, otherwise you are wasting time adn they refuse to do this
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Why does Bunyan write the Apology?
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Because of the Protestant Work Ethic and he justifies himself for writing Pilgrim's Progress.
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What is Christian's justification for leaving his family?
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he would be destroy if he stayed
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Violent aspects of religion are prevalent in PP. Where?
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All the battles, Esp. with Appoyln and Christian. Also, at the Palace with Charity there is armour.
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Who wrote Petersburg?
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Andrei Bely
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What are some Characteristics of Modernism?
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Solipsism
Alenation Importance of Myth and Primitive Culture Atonomy of Art Elitist |
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Solipsism
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Stuck in yourr own head. The mind breates reality, we create the world in the act of perceiving
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Aleination
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seperation from the rest of society
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Elitist
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Separate from the masses
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Atonomy of Art
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Art is an ideal order that suffices for the chaotic order of the modern world
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Post Modernism Dates
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1945-present
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What are some characteristics of Post Modernism?
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Celebration of surface over depth
Distrust of linear history-they focus on teh moment No true reality underlying our perception Self-Hood as preformance. Artwork is the performance and the artist is the performer populis |
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Populis
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does not seperate anything
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metafiction
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Art=Self-reflexive,it draw attention to tiself as itself
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When was the Czar establised?
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1613
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In 1703 who founded what Russian City?
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Peter the Great, Petersburg
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What is Petersburg also called?
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the most modern city of europe
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what war was going on in 1905?
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The Russo-Japanese War
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What happens in 1905?
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The revolution begins adn it forces Nickolas II to establish a parliment and consistution
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What was establised in 1917
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The USSR, the capital moved to Moscow and the Bolshevick revolution began
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What is Stalin's Great Purge?
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occurred from 1936-1953 and he took people who were not perfect to concentration camps or he just killed them
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What country invades Russia in 1941?
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Germany
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What did Andrei Bely's father do?
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he was a mathmatician. He was interetsed in relgion and mysticism
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Netsche
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birth of tragedy
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Name three quick things about modernism?
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alienation
solipsion complexity |
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Who is Things Fall Apart by?
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chiuna achebe
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Post-Colonial Literature
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Literature produced by writers involved with nations that have gained independece from colonial regimes.
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What are some characteristics of post-colonial literature
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they celebrate indeginous cultural values and practices while denegrating western coloinial attitudes
there is a intense focus on political issues |
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back to postmodern, what is a parody
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imitation of the style of another work
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What is pastiche
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patchwork of several styles
postmodernism |
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Where was slavery abolished by the British in 1832?
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The West Indies
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During 1871-1912 what was at its height?
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global european impearlism
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in 1884-1885 what conference divided Africa up?
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the berlin Conference
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What were the two countries of Africa that remained free?
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Liberia and Ethiopia
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What is Pan-Africanism?
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Celebration of Africa away from Africa. It was a political movement
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What was iniated in 1913 dealing with the native land act?
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Apartiee-institutional segregation
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What country gaines its independence first from British?
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Ghana
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When was Things Fall Apart published?
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1958
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What was happening in the 1960's with African colonies?
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They were gaining their independence from british control.
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