final Flashcards
(97 cards)
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Beowulf era
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medieval
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canterbury tales era
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medieval
3
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confessions era
A
medieval
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inferno era
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medieval
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kebra negast era
A
medieval
6
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koran era
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medieval
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sir gawain era
A
medieval
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Aeneid era
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ancient
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chuang tzu (zhuangzi) era
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ancient
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gilgamsh era
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ancient
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jataka era
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ancient
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medea era
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ancient
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odyssey era
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ancient
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Hamlet era
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renaissance
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paradise lost era
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renaissance
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petrarch era
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renaissance
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chuang tzu (zhuangzi) author
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chuang chou
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chuang tzu (zhuangzi) language
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chinese
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aeneid author
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virgil
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aeneid language
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latin
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gilgamesh author
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sin-leqi-unninni
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gilgamesh language
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babylonian
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the jataka author
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unknown
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the jataka language
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pali
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Medea author
euripides
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medea language
greek
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the odyssey author
homer
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the odyssey language
greek
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canterbury tales author
chaucer
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canterbury tales language
middle english
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beowulf author
unknown
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beowulf language
old english
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confessions author
St. Augustine
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confessions language
latin
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the inferno author
dante
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the inferno language
italian
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kebra nagast language
Ge'ez
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kebra nagast author
unknown
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Koran author
muhammad
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Koran language
arabic
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight author
unknown
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sir gawain and the green knight language
middle english
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letter, and rime sparse author
petrarch
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letters, and rime sparse language
italian
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letters, and rime sparse date
14 century AD
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a French word meaning Rebirth.
renaissance
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the middle ages, then are in the ____ of the Classical western world and modern western world
middle
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The modern western world began with the
renaissance
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The Renaissance began in _____ and spread throughout the rest of Europe.
Italy
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an Italian renaissance thinker, first coined the term Dark Ages to refer to the backward thinking which he believed characterized Europe before the Renaissance
Petrarch
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Middle Ages have since become synonymous with
Dark Ages
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Petrarch discovered some lost manuscripts of ____ an ancient Roman orator
cicero
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Among the manuscripts was Cicero's ______, which inspired Petrarch to write his own series of Letters.
Letters to Atticus
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The title refers to how scattered and out of control he feels as a result of his love for a woman named
laura
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________ is made up of 366 sonnets (corresponding to the number of days on a calendar)
scattered rhymes
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All sonnets have ____ lines
14
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Petrarchan sonnets divide the ____ lines into an _____ and ____
14, octet, sestet
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Shakespearean sonnet divide the 14 lines into _____ and ____
quatrain and couplet
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paradise lost author
john milton
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paradise lost date
1667 AD
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Paradise lost language
early modern english
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paradise lost is an ___ modeled on classical epics such as ____ and ____
epic, the odyssey and the aeneid
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milton's meter is
heroic verse
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in English, heroic verse is in
Iambic Pentameter
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basic unit of measurement in a line of poetry
foot
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a specific type of foot made of foot made of two syllables (unstressed, stressed)
Iamb
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each line of a poem written in pentameter contains five feet, so a poem in iambic pentameter contains five iambs
pentameter
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in the classical languages heroic verse is in
dactylic hexameter
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What is satan's chief sin
pride
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Adam's natural gift is
wisdom and strength (authority
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Eve's natural gift
beauty
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the angel that guards the entrance to the gate of paradise
gabriel
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the entrance is on the ____ end of paradise
eastern
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the angel that is humanity's confidant
raphael
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who advises adam
raphael
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____ shows adam visions of the future redemption of humanity to encourage him and eve during their exile from paradise
michael
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who escorts adam and eve from paradise
michael
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Hamlet author
shakespeare
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hamlet date
1601 AD
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Hamlet language
early modern english
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Hamlet is how old
30 yr
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hamlet is the prince of
denmark
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who is the mother of hamlet
gertrude
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hamlet's uncle and reigning king of denmark
claudius
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who married gertrude after murdering his brother, hamlet's father
claudius
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chamberlain and counselor of the king his is a fool
polonius
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brother of Ophelia and son of Polonius
Laertes
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daughter of polonius, sister of Laertes
Ophelia
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Hamlet's girlfriend
ophelia
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hamlet's best friend
horatio
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prince of Norway
Fortinbras
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Hamlet's to be or not to be speech is about
suicide
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the recurring theme in hamlet
mortality
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who is Yorick
the jester
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who remains to tell the story in its entirety
horatio
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since all of the ruling family are dead, ____ takes up the kingship of Denmark
Fortinbras
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the election lights on fortinbras: he has my dying voice
hamlet
