English Renaissance Test
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- Humanism
- way of life that focuses on human value and intrests
- Nationalism
- sense of national identity and pride
- Renaissance Man
- a man who is a master of many fields
- Sonnet Sequence
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a group of sonnets linked by subject matter or theme, and following certain conventions
ex: Astrophel and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney - Spenserian sonnet
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14 lines
iambic pentameter
abab bcbc cdcd ee
interlocking rhyme - Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet
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14 lines
iambic pentameter
abba
abba
cddeed/cdcdcd/cddcee/cdcdee/cdecde/ccddee/cdccdd - Shakespearean/English Sonnet
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14 lines
iambic pentameter
abab
cdcd
efef
gg - Apostrophe
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direct address to someoe or something that can't answer
ex: Sonnet 31
"With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!"
talking to the moon - volta
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the turn
-turning point in the poem
shift in focus
always in 2nd half of the poem after line 8 or 12 - eye or sight rhyme
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looks like it rhymes
ex:Sonnet 31
"Leaves, lines, and rhymes, seek her to please alone,
Whom if ye please, I care for other none." - Assonence
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repeated vowel sounds
ex: Sonnet 1 by edmund spenser
And hAppy rhymes bAthed in the sAcred brook - Consonance
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repeated consonant sounds
ex:Sonnet 1
"my Soul'S long lacked food, my heaven'S bliSS - Pastoral
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lyrics that celebrate a simple life in the country
ex:The Shepard to His Love
the shepard asks another girl to go with him and live in the simple life of the shephard life with pretty flowers in the spring - connotation
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emotional over tones that accompany a word
in Utopia by Thomas More
he talks about sloth, the denotaion would be laziness and idleness,
the connotation would be a lazy negative person - denotation
- dictionary definition
- charged language
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words with strong positive or negative connotations used to evoke emotion
ex: "I know i have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king and of a king of england, too..."
Elizabeth's speech before her troops - Madrigal
- love songs sung in harmonized voices without instruments
- Rhetorical Question
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asked for effect no answer expected
ex: "WHO quarrel more than beggars do.?"
sir thomas more Utopia - paradox
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situation when seems contradictory but true
ex: Sonnet 35
"...so plenty makes me poor" - oxymoron
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contradictory phrase
ex: sonnet 39
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release..." - Antithetical structure
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parallel phrases or clauses in which both positive and negative forms appear
ex: Sonnet 35
"But having pine and having not complain.
For lacking it they cannot life sustain,
And having it they gaze on it the more:" - 1485
- end of war of the roses, start of tudor dynasty
- 1492
- columbus arrives in north america
- 1517
- luther's 95 theses, starts protestant reformation
- 1534
- Act of Supremacy
- 1564
- shakespeare born
- 1588
- spanish armada defeated
- 1599
- globe theater built
- 1603
- queen elizabeth dies, james 1 crowned
- 1616
- shakespeare dies
- parallel structure
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in which 2 or more similar sentence constituents are used in a row
parallel structure makes her speech sound more powerful
ex: "i myself will take up arms; i myself will be your general judge..." - Renaissance
- rebirth/revive of civilization
- inverted syntax
- a change in order of the words in a sentence to make the rhyme scheme work
- slant rhyme
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a word that does not look like it rhymes with the other word, yet when pronounced, they both rhyme
ex:"My hungry eyes through greedy covetize,
...With no contentment can themselves suffice:"
Edumnd spenser Sonnet 35 - personification
- a non human subject is given human characteristics
- reasoned arguement
- the use of one idea to logically support another
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"Happy ye leaves when as those lily hands,
Which hold my life in their dead doing might,
Shall handle you and hold in love's soft bands,
Like captives trembling at the victor's sight,
And happy lines, on which with starry light,< -
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 1 -
"My hungry eyes through greedy covetize,
Still to behold the object of their pain,
With no contentment can themselves suffice:
But having pine and having not complain.
For lacking it they cannot life sustain,
And having it t - Edmund Spenser Sonnet 35 the eyes one
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"One day i wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide and made my pains his prey.
"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay, - Edmund spenser 75 sand one
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"With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!
What, may it be that even in heavenly place
That busy archer his sharp arrows tries?
Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes
C - Sonnet 31 Sir Philip Sidney
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"Come sleep! O sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
The indifferent judge between the high and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out th - Sonnet 39 Sir Philip Sidney
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"When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured l - William Shakespeare Sonnet 29
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"When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights.
THen in the blazon of sweet beauty's best
Of hand, of foot, - William Shakespear Sonnet 106
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admid impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
On, no! It is an ever-fixed mark
That loks on tempest and is never shaken; - William Shakespeare Sonnet 116
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But - William Shakespeare Sonnet 130