This sonnet form has fourteen lines that fall into two main divisions.
What is the Petrarchan sonnet?
100
“…perhaps he will read it and laugh, and light the fire in his furnace; but my hope is that he will quit his trifles, and betake himself to rational and useful diligence.”
What is Idler No. 31?
100
"He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct that he seems to write without any moral purpose."
Who is Samuel Johnson?
100
While on the surface this author's work seems religiously and socially conventional, when studied further, it can be seen that he relentlessly questions and undermines conventional morality.
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
100
Many eras of time are given a name years after their occurrence. However, the Renaissance and ________were named by those living during those times.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
The term used in linguistics for the stage of language that came right after Middle English.
What is Early Modern?
200
This author questions to what extent a human being can be dehumanized and reflects that, once the process of dehumanization has begun, the unfortunates become accustomed to their plight.
Who is Jonathan Swift?
200
"Far be it from her to stir up sedition of any sort, none can abhor it more, and she heartily wishes that our masters would pay their civil and ecclesiastical governors the same submission which they themselves exact from their domestic subjects."
Who is Mary Astell?
200
This author believed that women should have the privilege of leaving the marriage compact by choice.
Who is John Locke?
200
This was a medieval school of thought taught in medieval universities that emphasized dialectical thinking and was a reconciliation of patristic thinking with medieval Christian theology.
What is Scholasticism?
300
This form of satire is a way of emphasizing folly or vice by deliberately describing it in a way that is different to the actual meaning, like pretending silly things are sensible or morally bad things are good.
What is verbal irony?
300
In this story, readers can easily relate to the protagonist because he is gullible, naïve, and uses common sense to survive.
What is Gulliver's Travels?
300
"The clouds appeared to me to be land, which disappeared as they passed along. This heightened my wonder; and I was now more persuaded than ever that I was in another world, and that every thing about me was magic.”
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
300
This group of people were preachers of not just reason but reasonableness. They preached the gospel of humanity and secularism. They were inundated with Enlightenment ideas and believed themselves to be part of a vast international movement.
Who were the philosophes?
300
This movement’s reexamination of the pagan classics stimulated the philosophy of secularism, the rejection of religion and the belief that it should not be part of politics of education.
What is Humanism?
400
During the Renaissance, though the ideas of humanism sought to reform education, what remained at the core of the curriculum?
What is the study of Latin, the language of all higher learning?
400
This character in Shakespeare’s sonnet is the very antithesis of the Petrarchan mistress.
Who is the Dark Lady?
400
"Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make Perpetual day..."
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
400
The Catholic Church made this author a saint, but the Catholic bishops of sixteenth-century Spain and Portugal placed his major work on their list of prohibited books.
Who is Sir Thomas More?
400
The process of this method was to:
Read a book and note points of disagreement
Research the pros and cons of the issues
Summarize all issues/questions.
What is the Scholastic Method?
500
A genre of medieval drama that employed the use of allegorical figures in order to convey a religious or moral idea.
What is the morality play?
500
The man of the Renaissance lived between these two worlds.
What is faith and reason?:
the medieval Christian matrix and the system of scientific concepts.
500
“For a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot by compact or his own consent enslave himself to any one, nor put himself under the absolute, arbitrary power of another, to take away his life, when he pleases.”
Who is John Locke?
500
This author disagreed with John Locke’s attitude about women as preachers, saying, “Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hindlegs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.”
Who is Samuel Johnson?
500
By the 14th century, humanism had pushed this form of reasoning out of the picture and caused it to be viewed as little more than organized quibbling over minor points of philosophy and theology.