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British Literature Volume 1
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Undergraduate 2
12/15/2010

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scop
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when the poet/singer is orally preforms the story. It changes how people relate to it because each story teller would bring in their on aspect.
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Give a literary example of scop.
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Beowolf
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Chivalric Code
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an unwritten code, part of the culture of the time period, that includes the proper way of courtly love, how to treat a lords, and gods justice.
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Give a literary example chivalric code
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Sir Gowin and the green night
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Estate Satire
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An idea that there is an order or structure to a society. For example you can classify people into working class, fighting class and religious class.
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Give a literary example of estate satire
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the Canterbury tales
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comitatus
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band of warriors
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fabliaux
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short metrical tail, meant for humor
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give a literary example of fabliaux
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cantaberry tails
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Alliterative verse
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repetition of the same sound or the same kind of sound.
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Fourfold Exegesis
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four ways of interpreting a story. 1)literal 2)allegorical 3) moral 4) analogical.
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Theodicy
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god's justice. deals with evil.
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Great chain of being
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Godly power, kingly power. It goes from the cosmo's to the people.
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governmentality
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"the art of government" not just governing the state but the court and relations
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petrarchan sonnet
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Original Italian sonnet form in which the sonnet's rhyme scheme divides the poem's 14 lines into two parts, an octet (first eight lines) and a sestet (last six lines). The rhyme scheme for the octet is typically abbaabba. There are a few possibilities for the sestet, including cdecde, cdcdcd, and cdcdee.
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Shakespearean English sonnet
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consists of three quatrains and a couplet--that is, it rhymes abab cdcd efef gg
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volta
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the turn in the sonnet. usually the 8th or 9th line.
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ejambment
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the run over of one line onto the next line.
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iambic pentameter
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10 syllables in each line. five pares of alternating stressed and unstressed sylables.
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Liberalism (John Locke)
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Limiting government- the glorious revolution of 1688-89 and the accession of William III brought him back to England and made possible the publication of the essay on which he had been working for many years. 
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Humanism
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rejects religion and concentrates on human values
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induction vs. deduction Baccon
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Baccon thought religion and science should be kept separate, but are equally important.
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Empiricism
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all knowledge is derived from experience through the scenes.
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Epistemology
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The study of knowledge
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