Literature of the Renaissance
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Humanism | A major intellectual movement |
| Measure | Man is the... |
| If he will | Man can do all things... |
| Classicism | Application of Greco/Roman principles |
| Humanism | Classicism branches off of... |
| World Exploration | This brought trade, prosperity, and more imagination |
| The Arts | The most famous of this were Michelangelo, DaVinci, and Giotto |
| Notebook | DaVinci's ________ is one of the most important artifacts from DaVinci |
| Giotto | This man was one of the first Frescoe painters |
| Printing | This hastened literacy |
| Gutenberg | The first printing machine was made by this man |
| Gutenberg bible | This is the first book made from a printing machine |
| Losing | Throughout these periods of time, the Church keeps ______ power |
| Spirit of Inquiry | Questioning accepted teachings |
| Machiavelli | The author of "The Prince" |
| "The end justifies the means" | The famous quote by Machiavelli |
| The Prince | The book that gives advices to rulers |
| Treatise | Scholarly, systematic work |
| Petrarch | This man wrote Sonnets |
| Boccaccio | This man wrote Frame Stories |
| Cervantes | This man wrote novels |
| Novel | An adventure story |
| Dox Quixote | What book did Cervantes write? |
| Book of the Courtier Castiglione | This is the second most read book of the Renaissance |
| Father of the Modern Novel | Cervantes is the... |
| Canzoniere | Francesco Petrarch wrote the... |
| Song Book | Canzoniere means... |
| Canzoniere | This book was wrotten with 317 sonnets and was inspired by Laura |
| Laura | This woman is Petrarch's love from afar |
| Lady Murasaki Shikibu | This person is the first writter of a novel |
| The tale of Genji | This novel was written by Lady Murasaki Shikibu |
| Ad Fontes | This is the Humanist motto |
| Back to the sources | "Ad fontes" means... |
| Humanist myth | This is the ________ ____. The Middle Ages were "dark" |
| Architecture and universities | These two prove that the Middle Ages were NOT dark |
| Rhetoric | What was literature classified as a branch of? |
| Rhetoric | The art of using spoken language |
| Rhetoric | To teach, give pleasure, and persuade. It is playful in its treatment of language. It's function was also to persuade the reader to "do good" by increasing one's horror of Evil |
| SALVATION | THIS IS STILL THE MAIN THEME OF THE AGE |
| Sonnet | A poem of fourteen lines. A very restrictive form of poetry |
| Octave | This presents a situation, idea, or question. ABBA |
| Sestet | This provides a resolution, a comment, or an answer. CDE |
| Oxymoron | two terms that are logically contradictory |
| Rhyming couplet | This provides a memorable conclusion to the Shakespearean sonnet. GG |
| Quatrains | ABAB, CDCD, or EFEF |
| Politics and propositions | They wrote in metaphorical poems to be able to seek privacy in their thoughts. They could hide or cover their treasonous ways against the kings |
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