Christopher marlowe Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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NYSTCE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (003) TEST WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100% Epic poems - correct answer a long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero, adventures Epistolary Poetry - correct answer written and read as letters Ballads - correct answer songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure, romance, death and religion Elegies - correct answer poems of loss that express both praise for the dead and an element of consolation Odes - correct answer Poems that express...

CLEP English Literature QUESTIONS AND PASSED GUARANTEED ANSWERS 2023/2024 Beowulf Characters - correct answer king hrothgar, beowulf, grendel old english geoffrey chaucer - correct answer canterbury tales: 20 pilgrim stories and wife of bath middle english william langland - correct answer Piers the Plowman (sorrows of being poor) Allegory poem is simple and colloquial middle english shakespeare - correct answer merchant of venice, hamlet, macbeth, romeo and juliet,...

Early Modern English - 1500-1800 (some say 1450-1750) forms the base of the grammatical and orthographical conventions that survive in Modern English. The Renaissance The Neoclassical Period Start of Romantic Period Elizebethan Age - 1558-1603 Considered the height of the English Renaissance Medieval tradition William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Ben Johnson The Renaissance - 1500-1660 Elizebethan Age Jacobean Age Caroline ...

What arises from people's natural desire to represent their lives and beliefs? -- >Drama The first real flowering of dramatic arts in the Western tradition occurred where? -- >Classical Greece Building used as dressing room -->Skene Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone is whom's most famous work? -- >Sophocles The part of a theater stage in front of the curtain -->Proscenium Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were..? -->The big three of Greek tragedy A trilogy...

The convention for representing depth on a flat surface is called: - Perspective The idea that all drama should be "true to life" is called: - Verisimilitude Who developed the pole-and-chariot system? - Torelli Which of the following is NOT true of a proscenium stage? - It also includes an orchestra, mezzanine, an balcony. A play with shepherds and mythological creatures who inhabit the forests and countryside, with serious actions but a happy ending would be a(n): - Pastoral Wh...

English Literature CLEP Latest 2023 Graded A heroic couple a rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines, first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit, esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: "In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend") terza rima -(tert′sə rē′mə) a verse form of Italian origin, made up of tercets, the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba,...

Francois Rabelais ANSWER- Works were a mix between social satire, licentious comedy, and humanist philosophy, works were banned from the Catholic Church. Major works: "Gargantuan and Pantagreul" Michel de Montaigne ANSWER- Introduction to the essay to Western Culture. Major works: "Essays". Counseled Parliament until 1571, then retired and wrote. Christopher Marlowe ANSWER- English author, most important Elizabethan dramatist prior to Shakespeare, Major works: "Edward II", "Tamburla...

NYSTCE English Language Arts (003) Test Epic poems - a long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero, adventures Epistolary Poetry - written and read as letters Ballads - songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure, romance, death and religion Elegies - poems of loss that express both praise for the dead and an element of consolation Odes - Poems that express strong emotions about life, evolved from songs Epigrams/ limericks - Known for humor and wit Sonn...

Shakespeare - Answer 1564-1616 154 poems survived 38 plays William Faulkner - Answer - 1897-1962 - The Sound and the Fury - As I Lay Dying - A Rose For Emily William Chaucer - Answer (1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales - Answer - Written by Chaucer - Takes place in middles ages with a cross section of society - literary context is "frame tale" - pilgrims all on their way to Canterbury and they take turns telling tales to amuse the others frame tale - Answer story within a stor...