Sonnets
The number of lines in a sonnet
14
The Reformation grew out of this larger movement
Renaissance
"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
Tricolon
("Of Studies" by Francis Bacon)
Humanism marks a shift from the focus on community and the immaterial to a focus on this
the great worth and potential of individuals and earthly life
A rhetorical appeal relating to emotion
Pathos
Sonnets are in this larger category of poetry
Lyric
The recovery of these inspired new developments in science and technology.
Ancient texts (like Archimedes and Pythagoras)
"With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climbst the skies"
Apostrophe
a prevalent tool in the writing of humanists who wanted to take advantage of the body of shared classical knowledge
Allusion
A short, pithy statement that expresses serious truth
Aphorism
Type of sonnet with an octave and a sestet
Italian sonnet
She solidified England as a strong nation AND as a protestant nation.
Queen Elizabeth I
“I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king,”
Antithesis
Queen Elizabeth I
introduced the essay and promoted inductive reasoning
Sir Francis Bacon
the process of presenting a claim and providing reasons to support it
Argumentation
typical kind of meter used in a sonnet
Iambic
This helped England's standard of living become higher
raids on Spanish settlements and ships
wool trade
new sea trade route
"...for I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free"
Paradox
("Holy Sonnet 14" by John Donne)
gave several reasons to support the argument that Adam was the most to blame for the fall
Amelia Lanier
when one observes multiple details about a topic or situation and draws from this a general truth that they most logically suggest
Inductive Reasoning
Two lines at the end of an English sonnet that comment on the rest of it
Couplet
He helped start the Reformation in English because he badly wanted an annulment.
King Henry VIII
"even as the saddler's next end is to make a good saddle, but his further end to serve a nobler faculty, which is horsemanship"
Analogy
(from An Apology for Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney)
a piece of literary criticism written in defense of imaginative literature
An Apology for Poetry
an extended metaphor that draws a parallel between two highly dissimilar objects or concepts
Conceit