Sonnets
How many lines do sonnets have?
14
In which period were women allowed to perform in plays for the first time?
Restoration period
Who won the storytelling competition in The Canterbury Tales?
It is unknown
What is an iambic pentameter?
Type of metric line with one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable
What story begins with a pilgrimage?
The Canterbury Tales
How many syllables do iambic pentameters have?
10
Name one Medieval Literature work and one Renaissance Literature work.
Medieval: The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Renaissance: sonnets, Macbeth, Paradise Lost, Shakespearean works in general.
Who is the antagonist in Macbeth?
Macduff
How many pairs of syllables does an iambic pentameter have?
5
The letters in SMILE stand for
Structure, Meaning, Imagery, Language and Emotion/Effect
How many types of sonnets did you study this mid-term? Name them
Three
Shakespearean, Petrarchan ,and Spenserian
Name one Medieval Literature work and one Renaissance Literature work.
Catholicism (Catherine of Aragon, Mary I), Protestantism (Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn), Puritanism (Oliver Cromwell, John Milton).
What are the elements of tragedy in a play? Give examples
tragic hero, tragic flaw, antagonist, and catastrophe.
Example may vary
Shakespearean sonnets are mostly written in a meter called ______ ___________
iambic pentameter
Name two similarities and two differences between Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green knight.
Both are epic English stories with unknown authors. Both have epic heroes as the main character. Beowulf was written in old English while Sir Gawain and the Green knight was written in middle English. Both are warriors, but Beowulf is related to royalty and Sir Gawain is a knight. Beowulf is a Old English epic and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a Medieval epic. They have supernatural characteristics. Both stories are poems. In Beowulf, strength loyalty and bravery are main characteristics of the hero, in Sir Gawain and the green knight follows the chivalry code.
What are the main themes of sonnets?
The sonnets are used to express feelings, love, the concept of man vs nature and the man’s role in the world.
Name 4 Romantic poets studied in this term.
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Keats
Type of Irony where both the surface meaning and deeper implications are present more or less throughout. It can be achieved with the use of a narrator.
Structural Irony
How are the rhythm structures of the Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets different?
The Shakespearean sonnet has three heroic quatrains with structure ABAB CDCD EFEF and the heroic couplet is closed with GG
The Petrarchan does not have a single pattern. The first 8 lines (octave) have the structure ABBAABBA the closing 6 lines (sestet) vary in its structure.
Literary archetype referring to a character that rejects established norms and conventions, has been rejected by society, and has themselves at the center of their own existence.
Romantic hero
How are Medieval Literature and Renaissance Literature different?
In medieval literature characters naturally experience the unnatural or magical elements in the story, Catholicism was the official religion and there was more emphasis on individuals rather than on religion. In the Renaissance, literature involved religion, historical and social issues which were under human analysis. It examines society by groups on class, occupation, function, status and other designations. Science and investigation gave rise to Humanism, which asserted the value of man, his dignity, and his lack of limitations. Catholicism was challenged by the protestants and a new way of studying the Bible.