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Final Flashcards

1
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How does Marlowe present Tamburlaine’s character?

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Prideful
Merciless
Arrogant
Power hungry

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How does Tamburlaine treat Bajazeth? How does he treat the innocents?

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Imprisons Bajazeth and his wife in a cage, feeding them scraps until they eventually brain themselves.

He slaughters the innocents and displays their remains across the city.

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How does Tamburlaine Part I end?

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Tamburlaine conquers Africa and Damascus, marrying Zenocrate

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What is a Spenserian Stanza?

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8 lines of iambic pentameter (ten syllables) followed by by 1 line of Alexandrine (12 syllables) in a very specific rhyme scheme

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How many virtues/books did Spenser plan on covering in Faery Queene?

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He wanted 12, but only got to 5. The themes are holiness, temperance, chastity, justice, and courtesy

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Who is the main character of The Faery Queene?

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Redcrosse

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What does Una represent?

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Truth

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Who deceived Redcrosse?

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Archimago

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Who rescues Redcrosse from Duessa and the giant?

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King Arthur

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Who does Redcrosse encounter in the House of Holiness?

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Fidelia, Sperenza, and Charissa (Faith, Hope, and Love)

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What happens in Redcrosse’s fight with the dragon?

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He gets burned, falls into a well of healing, trips and falls under the tree of life, and stabs the dragon through the mouth, killing it

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What happens at the end of the Faery Queene?

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Rejoicing. Redcrosse is now a worthy husband for Una, but he must first serve the Faery Queene for 6 years. Archimago attempts to deceive them, saying that Una is already betrothed to another, but his lies have no effect.

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What is the general plot of the Faery Queene?

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Allegorical story or a rookie knight failing time and again, yet being led by Truth to do noble deeds. This is the Christian life

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What is Metaphysical Poetry?

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Poetry from the 16th and 17th centuries that possess certain qualities

Metaphysical in 2 senses:

Philosophically based
Goes beyond the physical (emphasis on spirit, almost gnostic)

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Who wrote On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia?

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Sir Henry Wotton

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The Flea?

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John Donne

17
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The Canonization?

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Donne

18
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Death Be Not Proud

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Donne

Death is not the end, believers have hope

19
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Hymn to God the Father

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Donne

Wondering if God can really blot out all our sin because there’s so much of it and we continue in it

20
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The Thought?

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Edward, Lord Herbert

21
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The Altar?

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George Herbert

His heart is an altar to the Lord (shaped like an altar)

22
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Easter Wings?

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George Herbert

God grants us redemption from sorrow and decay

23
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The Pearl, Matthew 13?

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George Herbert

Autobiographical

24
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Affliction (IV)?

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George Herbert

Pain and sorrow over sin

God grants us relief, builds is up, and lifts us so that we may reach Him

25
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What meter does Milton employ in Paradise Lost?

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Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter

26
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What is Milton’s purpose in Paradise Lost?

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Asserting eternal providence

Justifying the ways of God before men

27
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How does PL begin?

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Satan and his demons lament what they have become, but soon make plans

28
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Pactum Salutis in PL?

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Book III

Almost a hymn to Christ

Milton praises Him for saving mankind in (400-415)

29
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What angel resists Satan in book V of PL?

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Raphael

30
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What happens in the angelic war in PL book VI?

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Demons use long ranges weapons (cowardly)

The Son drives the demons out of heaven in His chariot

Goodness is strength

31
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Why does Adam fall in PL?

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Adam chooses to fall so that Eve will not be alone; this paints him in an almost noble light

32
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What does Adam do at the end of PL?

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After seeing that the Messiah will come as a result of his sin, he is more than comforted. Him and Eve leave Eden sorrowfully, but with hope

33
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Central argument of Oration?

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Man can either feed the angel or the beast within, flesh or spirit (indeterminate image)

Man can control his own destiny

Aims to join Plato and Aristotle together (though he can’t)

34
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In Praise of Folly

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Satirical work designed to show how much folly we engage in

Targets the papacy

Faith is joined with folly (believing the invisible)

35
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Love or Fear?

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Feared because people are less likely to betray someone they fear than someone they love (?). But respect is even better than that

36
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Should a ruler keep his word?

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Yes, but only in appearance, not in actuality

37
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Great or Appear Great?

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Appear great, for then you can continue being evil while appearing good

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