Abeka English Literature Unit 3
Drama
The literary genre which reached its zenith during the Elizabethan period
William Shakespeare
Renaissance drama is epitomized in
Shakespeare
England’s greatest writer
Utopia
An ideal society
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Wrote Utopia
Cranmer
The major figure to develop the Book of Common Prayer
The Book of Martyrs, Foxe
“God be praised, good people, I am come away from them undefiled, and will confirm the truth with my blood.”
Rhyme
The correspondence of sounds
Rhythm
The regular recurrence of sounds
Meter
Measured rhythm of poem
Blank verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Gloriana
The Faerie Queene
Queen Elizabeth
Who the faerie Queene portays
Fearie queene, spenser
“Upon a great adventure he was bound, That greatest Gloriana to him gave,”
He goes to hell
What happens to Doctor Faustus as the end of the play?
Doctor Faustus, Marlowe
“Lo Mephistopheles, for love of thee, I cut my arm, and with my proper blood Assure my souls to be great Lucifer’s, Chiefe Lord and regent of perpetual night. View here the blood that trickles from mine arm, And let it be propitious for my wish.”
Dialogue
The speeches between two or more characters or all the speeches of the play taken collectively.
Soliloquy
A speech by one character alone on the stage
Plot
The arrangement of events
Tragedy
A play that ends unhappily
Comedy
A play that ends happily
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How many years did Doctor Faustus sell his soul?
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Marlowe
“Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove,”
Being realistic about life and love
Theme of The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Wyatt
Introduced the sonnet form
Pastoral
A classical love song dealing with shepherds and rustic life and often presenting an idealized concept of rural life
Pleasure of the world are to be left behind, because a home in heaven is better
Theme of Leave Me O Love
God’s love
What does the fire represent in The Burning Babe
Jesus
Who is the burning babe
Jonson
England’s first poet laureate
God’s love and willingness to forgive when we sin
Theme of A Hymn to God the Father
Ladies grief at the inconsistency of man
Theme of Balthazar’s song
Balthazar’s Song, Shakespeare
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever;” “The frauds of men were ever so,”
Shakespeare
The greatest writer of all time
Sonnet
A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter with a definite pattern of two basic varieties, Italian or English.
Sonnet 18, Shakespeare
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s-day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:”
Sonnet 116, Shakespeare
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments: love is not love”
Histories
According to Francis Bacon, what makes men wise
Bacon
Wrote Essays which is the first English literature
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Essay: Explain the Red Cross Knight and the Monster, Error, and who they depict. Include Author and Title of this work.