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British Literature
Lanval, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Noah's Flood, Second Shepherds Play, Sonnets
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English
12th Grade
04/23/2010

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Term
Petrarchan Sonnet
Definition

octave + a sestet

 

abbaabba + cdecde, cdcdcd, or cdedec

 

Th octave presents a narrative, raises a question, or states a proposition, to which the sestet responds

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Shakespearean Sonnet
Definition

three qutrains + a rhymed couplet

 

abab cdcd efef gg

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Spenserian Sonnet
Definition
abab bcbc cdcd ee
Term
conceit
Definition
a fanciful notion, often expressed through an elaborate analogy or metaphor pointing to a striking parallel between otensibly dissimilar things
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Petrarchen conceit
Definition
exaggerated comparisons expresing the beuaty, cruelty, and charm of the beoved and the suffering of the forlorned lover. Idealized courtly love.
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metaphor
Definition
An analogy identifying one object with another and asribing the first object one or more qualities of the second
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tenor
Definition
In a metaphor, the idea being expressed or th subject of the comparison
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vehicle
Definition
In a metaphor, the image in which this subject is conveyed or the subjet communicated
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oxymoron
Definition

A self-contradictory combination of words or smaller verbal units; usually noun-noun, adjective-adjective, adjective-noun, adverb-adverb, or adverb-verb

 

bitterwseet, darkness visible

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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Definition
Father of modern English poetry; it is with his translations of Petrarch that tradition in English begins.
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Tottel's Miscellany
Definition
Published by Richard Tottel; held nearly 100 Wyatt poems, it allowed many, not just aristocrats, to see the ideas and forms of the Eurpoean Renaissance.
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What to expect from Wyatt's sonnets
Definition

He uses typical Petrarchan conventions

 

He translates from Italian models, which means his themes or issues don't usually originate from him

 

He generally follows the rhyme sceme, abba cddc effe gg

 

He often presents two sides of love - spritual and physical - but never a union of the two (this differentiates him from Petrarch)

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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Definition
Introduced Blank Verse
Term
What to expect of Surrey's work
Definition

Much of his work handles the the traiditonal Petrarchan theme of love, with typical Petrarchan coneits

 

He uses a natural imagery that is more livlier and more "English" than that found in Petrarchan models

 

His language is often more modern than Wyatt's; his meanings are often clearer

 

Smoother rhymes, usually following the rhyme scheme, abab cdcd efef gg

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blank verse
Definition
unrhymed but otherwise regualr verse, usually in iambic pentameter. Commonly used for long poems.
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Sir Philip Sidney
Definition
the quintessential Rennaisance man. One of the first to write sonnet sequences; Astrophel and Stella, a sequence of sonnets about a single subject linked to one another
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Typology
Definition
The study of allegorical symbols, especially in the Bible
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Type
Definition
Synbol for something that it is to come; The Old Testament was the New Testament in type
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Antitype
Definition

A person or thing represented or foreshadowed by or identified with an earlier type or symbol

 

The Old Testament is the New Testament concealed; The New Testament is the Old Testment revealed; the New Testament is the Old Testament in antitype

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Ectype
Definition
A copy from the original; a type of something that has previously existed
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Archetype
Definition

An idealized model of a person, object, or concept, from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated

 

Christ is the archetype

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Typology (timeline)
Definition

Characters who reference Christ before he even existed are showing they are types of the antitype (Christ)

 

Characters born after Christ are ectypes of the archetype (Christ)

 

Because Christ is timeless, we are all both types of the antitype (Christ) and ectypes of the archetype (Christ)

 

 

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Ark of Noah (Typology)
Definition

Church within which Sinners find refuge

 

Salvation provided by Christ; Ark of Safety

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Wood of the Ark (Typology)
Definition
Wood of the cross
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The Flood (Typology)
Definition
Judgement; Last Judgement
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One Door to enter the Ark (Typology)
Definition
One way to God, through Christ
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Water (Typology)
Definition
Salvation through Baptism
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Noah's Wife (Typology)
Definition
Sinner who rejects Church
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Noah's Wife's Disobediance to her Husband (Typology)
Definition
Man's disobediance to God
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Noah's Wife being saved
Definition
Man being saved by the grace of God
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Noah's Wife
Definition
type of the antiype Mary (though not meek and virtuous)
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Pottle of Malmsey (Typology)
Definition
Perversion of Communion
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Dove (Typology)
Definition
Holy Ghost
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Rainbow (Typology)
Definition
Covenant bewteen type/ectype Noah and antitype/archetype Christ
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Alberti's Dictum
Definition
The true work of art must particpate in order: it must consitute a perfect harmonious whole from which nothing can be subtracted, nothing altered without damaging its unity.
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