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Dec 14, 2004 17:02

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themspennylane December 15 2004, 19:05:26 UTC
41. comedy involving body parts - burlesque

42. comedy involving “banana peels” - slap-stick

43. comedy involving uncomfortable situations - dark/black humor

44. two sources of Shakespeare’s history plays: 1) Holenshed’s Chronicles (English)
2) Phitarch’s Lives (Roman/Greek)

45. two monarchs Shakespeare worked for - Elizabeth I and James I

46. misogynist - man who hates women

47. Carpe Diem - seize the day

48. two examples of comparison poems: 1) Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained
2) L’Allegro; Il Penseroso

49. in medias res - starts in the middle of things

50. divertiment - diversions

51. moor - black man/woman; person of color

52. pun - play on words

53. double entendre - double intention; usually sexually based

54. three characteristics of cavalier poetry: 1) non-chalant, uninvolved, impersonal
2) usually rhymes 3) uses foreign words and phrases

55. father of metaphysical poetry - John Donne

56. father of cavalier poetry - Ben Jonson

57. fabliaux - animals have human characteristics

58. exemplum - story that tells a moral

59. pastoral - nature of setting

60. reason for writing “Paradise Lost” - John Milton wrote it to justify the ways of God
to man

61. reason for writing “Essay on Man” - Alexander Pope wrote it to vindicate the ways
of God to man. Doesn’t matter why, just is.

62. humanism - the belief that man is in control of his own destiny

63. deism - God created and the world took it from there

64. hero of “Paradise Lost” - Satan according to Milton

65. Felix Culpa - Happy Blame/Fault; will go to Paradise because of 1st sin

66. great chain of being - God => king => man => animal => plants =>
inert manner (dead things) => void

67. four humours: 1) blood 2) yellow bile 3) black bile 4) phlegm

68. Aristotlean Golden Mean - The man who is perfectly balanced in all of his humours.
A woman can never be balanced, considered hysterical because of PMS.

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