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ENGL 2322 Test -2 Questions and answers latest update
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ENGL 2322 Test -2 Questions and answers latest update
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ENGL 2322 Test #2middle ages ANS✔✔ first applied in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries to describe the millennium which occurred between two periods of
great learning and achievement: the Ancient Period (from about 1000bc-
500ad) and the Modern Period (from about 1500 to the present).
feudalism ANS✔✔ people worked for a lord and were given the
requirements for daily life (food, shelter, etc.) in return.
merchant capitalism ANS✔✔ Merchant economies (including our own) are
those based on the buying and selling of goods. which became very important
in the modern european world.
Protestant Reformation ANS✔✔ Martin Luther, who was concerned about
various problems and abuses he saw in the Church, started a movement.
sonnet ANS✔✔ a 14 line poem with a set rhyme scheme that as used by
many famous poets such as shakespeare. sonnets were very important to the
middle ages.
petrarchan sonnet ANS✔✔ a sonnet divided into an 8 line section (octave)
and a 6 line section (sestet). this was a famous type of poem that was used by
sir thomas wyatt, and it developed our early english literature.
english sonnet ANS✔✔ the type of sonnet that surry wrote that contained
three quatrains and a couplet
, spenserian sonnet ANS✔✔ a famous poem that was used by sir edmund
spenser that had interlocking rhymes between the quatrains
petrarchan conceit ANS✔✔ an extended metaphor comparing individual
parts of a womans body to some other beautiful objects. this form was used by
spenser and was an important type of sonnet for english work. like in
shakespeares sonnet 130
biblical cycle plays ANS✔✔ used in the second shepherds play that dealt
with a christian event
morlaity plays ANS✔✔ important for later drama in the middle ages, doctor
faustus, religious in nature. morality plays focused on the good and evil
allegory ANS✔✔ a work of literature in which characters or plot represent
abstract ideas or concepts. especially in doctor fautsus was important to middle
ages
tragedy ANS✔✔ aristotles idea of a reversal of fortune in a heros life of a flaw
in its character. these were important to english novels especially indoctor
faustsus
christopher marlowe ANS✔✔ wrote Doctor Faustus
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