1
Q
Beowulf era
A
medieval
2
Q
canterbury tales era
A
medieval
3
Q
confessions era
A
medieval
4
Q
inferno era
A
medieval
5
Q
kebra negast era
A
medieval
6
Q
koran era
A
medieval
7
Q
sir gawain era
A
medieval
8
Q
Aeneid era
A
ancient
9
Q
chuang tzu (zhuangzi) era
A
ancient
10
Q
gilgamsh era
A
ancient
11
Q
jataka era
A
ancient
12
Q
medea era
A
ancient
13
Q
odyssey era
A
ancient
14
Q
Hamlet era
A
renaissance
15
Q
paradise lost era
A
renaissance
16
Q
petrarch era
A
renaissance
17
Q
chuang tzu (zhuangzi) author
A
chuang chou
18
Q
chuang tzu (zhuangzi) language
A
chinese
19
Q
aeneid author
A
virgil
20
Q
aeneid language
A
latin
21
Q
gilgamesh author
A
sin-leqi-unninni
22
Q
gilgamesh language
A
babylonian
23
Q
the jataka author
A
unknown
24
Q
the jataka language
A
pali
25
Medea author
euripides
26
medea language
greek
27
the odyssey author
homer
28
the odyssey language
greek
29
canterbury tales author
chaucer
30
canterbury tales language
middle english
31
beowulf author
unknown
32
beowulf language
old english
33
confessions author
St. Augustine
34
confessions language
latin
35
the inferno author
dante
36
the inferno language
italian
37
kebra nagast language
Ge'ez
38
kebra nagast author
unknown
39
Koran author
muhammad
40
Koran language
arabic
41
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight author
unknown
42
sir gawain and the green knight language
middle english
43
letter, and rime sparse author
petrarch
44
letters, and rime sparse language
italian
45
letters, and rime sparse date
14 century AD
46
a French word meaning Rebirth.
renaissance
47
the middle ages, then are in the ____ of the Classical western world and modern western world
middle
48
The modern western world began with the
renaissance
49
The Renaissance began in _____ and spread throughout the rest of Europe.
Italy
50
an Italian renaissance thinker, first coined the term Dark Ages to refer to the backward thinking which he believed characterized Europe before the Renaissance
Petrarch
51
Middle Ages have since become synonymous with
Dark Ages
52
Petrarch discovered some lost manuscripts of ____ an ancient Roman orator
cicero
53
Among the manuscripts was Cicero's ______, which inspired Petrarch to write his own series of Letters.
Letters to Atticus
54
The title refers to how scattered and out of control he feels as a result of his love for a woman named
laura
55
________ is made up of 366 sonnets (corresponding to the number of days on a calendar)
scattered rhymes
56
All sonnets have ____ lines
14
57
Petrarchan sonnets divide the ____ lines into an _____ and ____
14, octet, sestet
58
Shakespearean sonnet divide the 14 lines into _____ and ____
quatrain and couplet
59
paradise lost author
john milton
60
paradise lost date
1667 AD
61
Paradise lost language
early modern english
62
paradise lost is an ___ modeled on classical epics such as ____ and ____
epic, the odyssey and the aeneid
63
milton's meter is
heroic verse
64
in English, heroic verse is in
Iambic Pentameter
65
basic unit of measurement in a line of poetry
foot
66
a specific type of foot made of foot made of two syllables (unstressed, stressed)
Iamb
67
each line of a poem written in pentameter contains five feet, so a poem in iambic pentameter contains five iambs
pentameter
68
in the classical languages heroic verse is in
dactylic hexameter
69
What is satan's chief sin
pride
70
Adam's natural gift is
wisdom and strength (authority
71
Eve's natural gift
beauty
72
the angel that guards the entrance to the gate of paradise
gabriel
73
the entrance is on the ____ end of paradise
eastern
74
the angel that is humanity's confidant
raphael
75
who advises adam
raphael
76
____ shows adam visions of the future redemption of humanity to encourage him and eve during their exile from paradise
michael
77
who escorts adam and eve from paradise
michael
78
Hamlet author
shakespeare
79
hamlet date
1601 AD
80
Hamlet language
early modern english
81
Hamlet is how old
30 yr
82
hamlet is the prince of
denmark
83
who is the mother of hamlet
gertrude
84
hamlet's uncle and reigning king of denmark
claudius
85
who married gertrude after murdering his brother, hamlet's father
claudius
86
chamberlain and counselor of the king his is a fool
polonius
87
brother of Ophelia and son of Polonius
Laertes
88
daughter of polonius, sister of Laertes
Ophelia
89
Hamlet's girlfriend
ophelia
90
hamlet's best friend
horatio
91
prince of Norway
Fortinbras
92
Hamlet's to be or not to be speech is about
suicide
93
the recurring theme in hamlet
mortality
94
who is Yorick
the jester
95
who remains to tell the story in its entirety
horatio
96
since all of the ruling family are dead, ____ takes up the kingship of Denmark
Fortinbras
97
the election lights on fortinbras: he has my dying voice
hamlet
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