Renaissance.

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Renaissance.

• Write down everything that comes into your mind
  when you see/hear the word

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The English Renaissance

• 1485-1625

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Coming out of the Dark Ages

• Renaissance Rebirth
• What are some of the quick facts about the Dark
  Ages we discussed with A Knights Tale?
• After Romans leave
• The black death
• Decreased literacy
• Increased warfare
• Separate classes
• What are some examples from A Knights Tale?
• Adhemar called to war
• Class distinction Can a man change his stars?

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Reborn how?

• Religious discovery
• Previously?
• Erasmus, Thomas Moore and others raise questions
  and pave the way
• Exploration
• What happens in 1492?
• Creativity
• Shakespeare?
• Invention
• DaVinci?

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Religious discovery

• First edition of the New Testament created by
  Desiderius Erasmus (Dutch)
• Martin Luthers 95 Theses of dissention
  (German)Protestant Reformation
• Tudor dynasty in Englandchanged religious
  practices established as a World Power
• Henry VIII (Catholic)Married 6 times
• Split with Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne
  Boleynled to separation with Catholic church

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Henry VIIIs Protégés
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The Stuarts ReignExploration

• Elizabeth Names James of Scotland (related to
  Henry VII change of family in power) as her
  successor
• Commissioned the King James Bibleuntil this
  point English versions were illegal
• Established Jamestown Colonyfirst successful
  NA colony
• Persecuted Puritans

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Creativity

• Elizabethan Age/Literaturecome of age
• Lyric poetry became popular
• The Sonnet a fourteen-line poem which in English
  is usually in iambic pentameter and whose rhyme
  scheme varies.
• Sonnet cycle a series of sonnets that fit
  loosely together to form a story
• Drama excelled
• Prose even gained popularity

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Sonnet Basics

• 14 Lines Long
• Divided into Octave (8 lines), and a sestet (6
  lines) w/ varied rhyme scheme
• Octave develops thought or theme
• Sestet expands or contradicts the thought or
  theme
• Volta (turn) occurs between octave and sestet
• Iambic Pentameter Rhythm evidenced by an
  unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
  syllable Iamb one unstressed syllable plus one
  stressed syllable Penta 5 Iambic pentameter5
  iambs (see handout)

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Sonnet Basics (Petrarchan)

• 14 Lines Long
• Divided into Octave (8 lines) w/ abbaabba rhyme
  scheme, and a sestet (6 lines) w/ cdecde, or
  cdcdcd rhyme scheme
• Octave develops thought or theme
• Sestet expands or contradicts the thought or
  theme
• Volta (turn) occurs between octave and sestet
• Iambic Pentameter

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When I consider How My Light is Spent by John
Milton

• When I consider how my light is spent,
• Ere half my days in this dark world wide,
• And that one talent which is death to hide
• Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
• To serve therewith my Maker, and present
• My true account, lets he returning chide
• Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?
• I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
• That murmur soon replies, God doth not need
• Either mans work or His own gifts. Who best
• Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His
  state
• Is kingly thousands at his bidding speed,
• And post oer land and ocean without rest
• They also serve who only stand and wait

• A
• B
• B
• A Octave
• A
• B
• B
• A
• C
• D
• E Sestet
• C
• D
• E

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Shakespearean Sonnets

• The Shakespearean sonnet is divided into three
  quatrains and a closing couplet, with a rhyme
  scheme abab cdcd efef gg.

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English Sonnets Shakespearean Sonnets

• Uses 3 quatrains (4 lines each) and ends in a
  couplet (2 lines) abab/ cdcd/ efef/ gg
• Quatrains may develop separate metaphors and the
  closing couplet can either confirm or go sharply
  against the prior lines.
• The volta comes in line 13 usuallysometimes in
  line 9

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Complete the following expressions, each of which
first saw the light in one of his plays

• Neither a                      or a
                       be
• All the worlds a                     
• With bated                     
• Break the                     
• Come full                     
• Eaten me out of house and                     
• A foregone                     
• Laugh yourselves into                     
• Not                      an inch
• Too much of a good                     

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Complete the following expressions, each of which
first saw the light in one of his plays

• Neither a     borrower        or a
         lender        be
• All the worlds a    stage           
• With bated    breath            
• Break the      bank           
• Come full       circle         
• Eaten me out of house and      home           
• A foregone    conclusion          
• Laugh yourselves into        stitches         
• Not     budge            an inch
• Too much of a good        thing        

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Recognizing Shakespeares importance

• Witnessing the birth of a language
• Of the 20,138 different words that Shakespeare
  employs in his plays, sonnets, and other poems,
  his is the first known use of more than 1,700 of
  them.
• made up more than 8.5 percent of his written
  vocabulary.

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Proto Indo European
Greek Albanian
Indo-Iranian
Germanic
Celtic
Balto-Slavic
Latin
Slavic
Baltic
Welsh Bretan Gælic
Iranian
Sanskrit
Romanian French Spanish Portuguese Italian
Russian Ukrainian Czech Slovak Serb-Croatian
Latvian Lithuanian
Persian Kurdish
Hindi Bengali
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Germanic
East Germanic
North Germanic
West Germanic
Old Norse
High
Low
Gothic
East Norse
West Norse
Old High German
Swedish
Old Frisian
Old English
Old Low German
Danish
Icelandic
Old Low Franconian
Old Saxon
Norwegian
Anglian
West Saxon
Kentish
Middle English
Modern English
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Old English
Anglian
West Saxon
Kentish
Middle English
Shakespeare Shakespeare
Early Modern English
Late Modern English
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English Sonnets Shakespearean Sonnets

• Uses 3 quatrains (4 lines each) and ends in a
  couplet (2 lines) abab/ cdcd/ efef/ gg
• Quatrains may develop separate metaphors and the
  closing couplet can either confirm or go sharply
  against the prior lines.
• The volta comes in line 13 usuallysometimes in
  line 9
• Iambic Pentameter Iamb unstressed stressed
  syllable Penta5 Iambic Pentameter5 iambs 10
  syllables

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A Sonnet for Stephen

• Pre-Analysis for Shakespearean Sonnets

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Number the lines

1. I see a little boy of four or five
2. Whose face lights up whenever we would play_
3. Who made me feel its great to be alive
4. And wish that time would never tick away
5. I see a college youth who goes to Penn,
6. Strong and handsome, smart in mind and dress,
7. Enthusiastic, kind, who scores a ten,
8. Possessing every trait that spells success.
9. I see the man who came from both those boys
10. Creating business plans and paths to wealth
11. With nonchalance, with skill and unique poise
12. While fighting back attackers of his health.
13. The boy, the youth, the man are each now gone,
14. Except that in my heart they linger on.

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Box the quatrains

• I see a little boy of four or five
• Whose face lights up whenever we would play_
• Who made me feel its great to be alive
• And wish that time would never tick away
• I see a college youth who goes to Penn,
• Strong and handsome, smart in mind and dress,
• Enthusiastic, kind, who scores a ten,
• Possessing every trait that spells success.
• I see the man who came from both those boys
• Creating business plans and paths to wealth
• With nonchalance, with skill and unique poise
• While fighting back attackers of his health.
• The boy, the youth, the man are each now gone,
• Except that in my heart they linger on.

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Double Box the Couplet

• I see a little boy of four or five
• Whose face lights up whenever we would play
• Who made me feel its great to be alive
• And wish that time would never tick away
• I see a college youth who goes to Penn,
• Strong and handsome, smart in mind and dress,
• Enthusiastic, kind, who scores a ten,
• Possessing every trait that spells success.
• I see the man who came from both those boys
• Creating business plans and paths to wealth
• With nonchalance, with skill and unique poise
• While fighting back attackers of his health.
• The boy, the youth, the man are each now gone,
• Except that in my heart they linger on.

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Identify the Iambic Pentameter

• see
• lit
• boy
• four
• five

• I
• a
• tle
• of
• or

• I see a little boy of four or five

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Iambic Pentamenter

• I see a little boy of four or five
• Whose face lights up whenever we would play
• Who made me feel its great to be alive
• And wish that time would never tick away
• I see a college youth who goes to Penn,
• Strong and handsome, smart in mind and dress,
• Enthusiastic, kind, who scores a ten,
• Possessing every trait that spells success.
• I see the man who came from both those boys
• Creating business plans and paths to wealth
• With nonchalance, with skill and unique poise
• While fighting back attackers of his health.
• The boy, the youth, the man are each now gone,
• Except that in my heart they linger on.

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Rhyme Scheme!

• I see a little boy of four or five
• Whose face lights up whenever we would play
• Who made me feel its great to be alive
• And wish that time would never tick away
• I see a college youth who goes to Penn,
• Strong and handsome, smart in mind and dress,
• Enthusiastic, kind, who scores a ten,
• Possessing every trait that spells success.
• I see the man who came from both those boys
• Creating business plans and paths to wealth
• With nonchalance, with skill and unique poise
• While fighting back attackers of his health.
• The boy, the youth, the man are each now gone,
• Except that in my heart they linger on.

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Analyze

• Subject
• Stephens Life
• Occasion
• The time span of Stephens life
• Written after his deatheulogy?
• Audience
• Those who love Stephen
• Stephen himself
• Purpose
• To eulogize and pay respects to a dear departed
  friend
• Speaker
• A friend of Stephens who misses him very much

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Theme

• What is the main idea of the poem? What should we
  get out of it? Moral?

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Volta Couplet

• Volta line 13there is a turn
• Instead of talking about Stephens life the
  speaker is now talking of his death
• Contradicted or expanded?
• Contradicted (see above)