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English Spring Exam 1
a stupid memorization exam
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Literature
11th Grade
03/09/2010

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his highest job was as lord chancellor (highest judicial position in England)
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Bacon
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father of the English essay
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Bacon
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died from bronchitis while studying refrigeration
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Bacon
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his intended audience was educated people
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Bacon
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a great proponent of inductive reasoning
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Bacon
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admitted to accepting bribes
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Bacon
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believed in the perfectibility of the human
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Bacon
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Everything in the universe is made up of only matter
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Hobbes
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all knowledge is gained through sensory impressions
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Hobbes
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Cause and effect governs everything in the universe
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Hobbes
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Humans' primary goal is to seek self-preservation and power to secure that goal
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Hobbes
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served as Bacon's amanuensis (secretary)
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Hobbes
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quarreled with some royalist founders and therefore was not invited to join the Royal Society
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Hobbes
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traveled a lot and therefore was educated with experience, meeting many philosophers
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Hobbes
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All humans are roughly equal and possess equal hopes of attaining goods
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Hobbes
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In the state of nature, everyone is continually at war with each other and life is horrible and short
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Hobbes
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humans escape continual quarrel with each other by forming covenants with each other to establish a sovereign government
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Hobbes
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translated the Iliad and Odyssey at 68 years old
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Hobbes
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What were the four things that Hobbes' treatise deals with?
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1) nature of human beings 2) creation of the state 3) proper subordination of the church to state sovereignty 4) "kingdom of darkness" (Catholic Church)
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many of his poems were published by a woman after his death (the woman claimed to be his widow but was probably his housekeeper).
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Marvell
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grew up in Yorkshire, attended Trinity College, and converted to Catholicism
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Marvell
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tutored Thomas Fairfax's 12-year old daughter
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Marvell
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• Joined the blind Milton as the Latin secretary to Cromwell’s Council of State
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Marvell
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went twice on diplomatic missions to Holland and Russia
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Marvell
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"The Rehearsal Transprosed"
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Marvell
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his famous quote: "to a green thought in a green shade"
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Marvell
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"To His Coy Mistress"
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Marvell
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• Many of his poems explore the human condition in terms of fundamental dichotomies that resist resolution
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Marvell
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"Hesperides"
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Herrick
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the most devoted of the Sons of Ben
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Herrick
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served as chaplain to various noblemen
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Herrick
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the vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire
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Herrick
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• “the good life”: love void of passion; pleasures of food, drink, and song; delight in the beauty of surfaces; and the creation of poetry as ballast against the ravages of time
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Herrick
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Proclaimed himself the future author of a great English epic
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Milton
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often alludes to crisis in his own life in his works
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Milton
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very self-conscious
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Milton
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Students at Cambridge called him “the Lady of Christ’s College”
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Milton
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his father was a scrivener
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Milton
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Latin Secretary to the commonwealth government and Cromwell’s Protectorate, meaning that he wrote the official letters to foreign governments and heads of states
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Milton
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converted from Catholicism to Protestantism for career reasons
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Donne
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was born in London and began life as an outsider
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Donne
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"Biathanatos": a paradoxical defense of suicide
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Donne
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went out with his boss' daughter
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Donne
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his uncle conspired with the Jesuits
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Donne
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Metaphysical poet who used 1) metaphysical conceit as an unusual metaphor (vehicle=science) 2) paradox 3) irregular/uneven line length 4) irregular rhythm
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Donne
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translated Montaigne's essay into English
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Bacon
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his reasoning associated him with humanism, which is that man is good, not evil
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Bacon
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Had 12 children through a secret marriage with a 16 year old
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Donne
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he would dress in funeral clothes
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Donne
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wrote epigrams and lyrics and joined the army and was a blacksmith
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Herrick
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"Noble Numbers": a book of religious poems with 400 short poems (many of them carpe' diem)
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Herrick
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Poems about Celtic mythology stand in for the forbidden by the Laudian Church
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Herrick
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his poems threatened the Puritans, who opposed the book of sports
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Herrick
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• Contained metamorphosis concepts
• Creation of poetry as ballast against the ravages of times
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Herrick
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Wrote mostly love lyrics and pastorals
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Marvell
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WROTE PARADISE LOST WITH MILTON
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Marvell
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• Love poems
o Between flesh and spirit
o Sex and love
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Marvell
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He was a big advocate of free speech, but he didn’t want it for the Catholics
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Milton
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Was a troubled child: suspended from college during first semester
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Milton
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Wrote his poetry in Latin
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Milton
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• WROTE SUCCESSFULLY ON CHURCH GOVERNMENT, DIVORCE, EDUCATION, AND REPUBLICANISM
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Milton
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"Lycidas": his greatest funeral elegy
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Milton
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"Areopagitica"
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"To his Coy Mistress"
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Marvell
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"To the Virgins"
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Herrick
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"A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING"
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Donne
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(sonnet) “Death, be not proud, though some have called thee”
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Donne
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(sonnet) "Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you”
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"Meditation 17"
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Donne
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"Of Studies"
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Bacon
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"Of Marriage and Single Life"
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Bacon
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