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Canterbury Characters
Poetic Structure
Decameron
Existentialism
Poets and their Poems
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Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve,/ Withouten oother compaignye in youthe--/ But thereof nedeth nat to speke as nowthe.
Who is the Wif of Bathe.
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This type of lyric poem is a fixed form with 19 lines: five tercets (aba) and one quatrain (abaa). It can be monotonous in the wrong hands or create haunting echoes when aptly written.
What is a villanelle
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The reason Boccaccio wrote The Decameron.
What is that he loved women, wrote the book for women.
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The end of the Barabbas novel is ironic because of this plot apsect.
What is Barabbas is originally expiated from his crime but later suffers the same (self-created) fate.
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"Hope" is the thing with feathers-/ That perches in the soul-/ And sings the tune without the words-/ And never stops-at all-
Who is Emily Dickinson ("Hope" is the thing with feathers).
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That fro the tyme that he first bigan/ To riden out, he loved chivalrie,/ Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie./ Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre,/
Who is the Knyght.
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A line of poetry written in iambic pentameter consists of this many iambic feet with this number of syllables in each foot for this total number of syllables in the line.
What is 5 (penta) iambic feet and 2 syllables in each foot (unstressed/stressed) for a total number of 10 syllables in the line.
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The picture frame device used as the main setting in the Decameron, places the young Florentines in the countryside, trying to escape this outbreak.
What is the Black Death (plague).
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Scheduled for execution if he does not reveal the whereabout of Gris, Ibbieta later laughs at the end of Jean Paul Sartre's short story "The Wall": how does his laughter connect to existentialist aspects of irony and absurdity.
What is Ibbieta fabricates a story about Gris's whereabouts that absurdly turns out to be true and ironically Gris is killed as a result.
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How do I love thee? let me count the ways./ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height/ My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight/ For the ends of being and ideal grace.
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning (How Do I Love Thee?).
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Noght o word spak he moore than was neede,/ And that was seyd in forme and reverence,/ And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence;/ Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche,/ And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
Who is the Clerk.
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The one of the structural differences between a Petrarchan sonnet and a Shakespearean sonnet is that the Shakespearean ends in this type of couplet.
What is a heroic couplet (which means rhymed iambic pentameter). So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,/ So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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This is one aspect of cruelty that Gualtieri employs in order to test Grisselda.
What is claims to kill the kids, divorces for a better woman, sends Grisselda back to her dad, has Grisselda prepare his new wedding, tells Grisselda their 12 year old daughter is his next wife.
300
One example of Barabbas acting as a conscious individual who creates his own free will.
What is when he chooses to re-enter his life of crime after being freed from crucifixion.
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I shall never get you put together entirely,/ Pieced, glued, and properly jointed./ Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles/ Proceed from your great lips./ It's worse than a barnyard.
Who is Sylvia Plath (The Colossus).
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She was so charitable and so pitous/ She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous/ Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.
Who is the Prioresse
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The Greek elegy was a originally a metrical form crafted to mirror these three stages of loss.
What is 1) grief/mourning, 2) praise/commemoration, and 3) solace/consolation.
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In the story of Masetto and the Nuns, the nuns convince the people in the neighborhood that Masetto can now miraculously talk because of this.
What is the nun's prayers.
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Facticity is about limitations as well as about being able to choose our freedoms. The story of Barabbas begins by emphasizing this aspect when this event(s) takes place.
What is Barabbas is freed and Christ is crucified.
400
A green level of lily leaves/ Roofs the pond's chamber and paves/ The flies' furious arena: study/ These, the two minds of this lady.
Who is Ted Hughes (To Paint a Water Lily).
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AN outridere that lovede venerie,/ A manly man, to been an abbot able./ Ful many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable,/ And whan he rood, men myghte his brydel heere/ Gynglen in a whistlynge wynd als cleere.
Who is the Monk.
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In poetry, the lack of punctuation from one line to the next can create a "run-on line," where one line ends without pause and continues onto the next line for its meaning. This type of poetic device is also known by this other name.
What is enjambment. My heart leaps up when I behold/ A rainbow in the sky.
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Before beginning this story, the Florentine named Dioneo states, "there is no denying that he [Love} sometimes makes his powers felt among pathless woods, rudded mountains, desert caves...since all things are subject to his way."
What is the story of Alibech and Rustico (3rd Day, 10th Story).
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The hare lipped girl bears witness to Christ in these 3 different contexts.
What is 1) spreads His word (Love one another), 2)witnesses his resurrection, 3) ends up killed by the people (similar to Christ) for her belief.
500
Tyger Tyger, burning bright,/ In the forests of the night;/ What immortal hand or eye,/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Who is William Blake (The Tyger).