Marking the end of the Renaissance, he banned Christmas, the theater, public houses, and sport.
Bonus! In what month did he die?
Who is Oliver Cromwell? September.
100
The purpose of satire.
What is too point out (mock) the flaws in something in hopes that it will change?
100
What Romantic element is best captured by these lines:
And then my heart with pleasure fills,/And dances with the daffodils.
Bonus: Who wrote them?
What is the power of nature? or What is intense emotional changes/outbursts?
100
Name that literary device:
I wandered lonely as a cloud.
What is a simile? or What is personification?
200
The last sentence of a persuasive essay. Demands that audience do or think something. Ends the essay.
What is a call to action?
200
The three themes of renaissance poetry are known (by your textbook at least) collectively as carpe diem.
What are love, death, and time?
200
The shift in scientific thought between the Renaissance and the Restoration.
What is a focus on the "how" things happen instead of the "why" things happen? What is a focus on logic, reason, and observation? What is the adoption of the scientific method? etc.
200
The Romantic TIME PERIOD ELEMENT that is best captured by the following lines:
Her lips were red, her looks were free,/Her locks were yellow as gold:/Her skin was as white as leprosy,/The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,/Who thicks man's blood with cold.
Bonus: Poet and title of poem.
What are supernatural elements?
200
Name that literary device:
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
What is a metaphor?
300
A refutation or rebuttal is given in order to disprove this.
What is anticipation to the opposition/opposing argument?
300
Henry VIII was monumental in assuring the permanence of the Protestant Reformation by doing this.
What is establishing the Church of England?
300
The reason Jonathon Swifts title, "A Modest Proposal" is ironic.
What is eating babies in order to solve Irish poverty?
300
Romanticism was an artistic movement in direct opposition to what qualities of the Restoration.
What is an emphasis on logic, education, and order?
300
The shift in tone or focus in a sonnet.
What is a volta/turn?
400
An strong example is, "The death penalty is cruel and unusual and must be abolished."
What is a position statement?
400
A poetic form consisting of 14 lines, this originated in Italy and was out of fashion by the end of the Renaissance.
What is the sonnet?
400
These events and practices made satire a preferred mode of writing. (at least 2)
What are censorship laws, imprisonment, the posthumous execution of Oliver Cromwell, and general dislike of those that questioned the status quo (threatened stability)?
400
What events outside of England fueled Romanticism?
What are the French and American Revolutions?
400
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What is a Shakespearean/English sonnet?
500
An example of an appeal:
The minority rights of an individual must be respected as, not only is it written in the constitution, it insures basic human liberties.
What is an ethical appeal?
500
An intellectual movement that combines the teaching of the classics with the Bible. Its beliefs include individualism, education, and free will.
What is Humanism?
500
The Age of Reason writing style became easier to read as seen by direct, short sentences. During this time WHAT types of writing became very popular. (Name at least 2)
What are satire, journals, diaries, pamphlets, and travel writing?
500
William Blakes twin poems, "The Chimney Sweepers," reflect the values of Romanticism in these ways.
What is a focus on the common man, the innocence of youth, and writing to contemporary issues?
500
TheTONE of the following lines:
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,/But leech-like to their fainting country cling,/Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,--
What is acerbic? What is bitter? What is disgusted?