5740913185 | Beowulf background | 6th century Denmark oral for 100 years original manuscript saved from fire | 0 | |
5740988858 | Beowulf setting | Denmark Herot Hall | 1 | |
5740993160 | Beowulf charachters | Hrothgar - king that ask for help Danes - Hrothagar's people Higlac - Beowulf's king Geats - Beowulf's people Grendel - monster | 2 | |
5741017863 | Beowulf: Battle with Grendel | Herot Hall fight w/ bare hands crush Grendel's fists & strong grip Geats cannot fight b/c Grendel bewitched swords rips off Grendel's arm; hangs it on Herot's rafters | 3 | |
5741043480 | Beowulf: Battle with Grendel's Mother | go to avenge Hrothgar's friend's death bottom of lake; sea hag kills her with sword forged for a giant decapitates Grendel | 4 | |
5741061045 | Beowulf: Dragon | goes to fight w/ Wiglaf bites Beowulf in neck burn Beowulf's body & bury him with treasures - memorial tower | 5 | |
5741302959 | Quote ID: 'And if death does take me, send the hammered/ Mail of my armor to Higlac, return/ The inheritance I had from Hrethel, and he/ From Wayland. Fate will unwind as it must! | Beowulf | 6 | |
5741315831 | Quote ID: "Twelve winters of grief for Hrothgar, king/ Of the Danes, sorrow heaped at his door/ By hell-forged hands, His misery leaped/ The seas, was told and sung in all/ Men's ears" | Beowulf | 7 | |
5741082713 | Canterbury Tales (CT) background | Middle Ages pilgrimage to Shrine of St. Thomas author died before he could finish | 8 | |
5741097475 | CT author | Geoffrey Chaucer | 9 | |
5741109016 | CT setting | pilgrimage to Shrine of St. Thomas spring | 10 | |
5741112284 | CT characters | Pardoner - preach against vice then ask for money Wife of Bath - sassy; gap teeth; had 5 husbands | 11 | |
5741165617 | CT Pardoner's Tale Plot | three boys plan to kill Death see Death with gold coins plan to wait draw lots to get bread and wine youngest goes other 2 plan to kill him when he returns youngest poisons drinks | 12 | |
5741214552 | CT Wife of Bath's tale | knight rapes girl punishment: death one chance to save life must find out what women want most in the world ugly old women reveals answer must marry - knight is saddened Women want to be in charge of their lovers beautiful and unfaithful OR ugly and loyal knight: you decide becomes beautiful AND faithful | 13 | |
5741290319 | Hamlet background | Shakespeare 17th century | 14 | |
5741355896 | Hamlet setting | Denmark Elsinore The brook | 15 | |
5741385323 | Hamlet characters | Hamlet King Claudius Queen Gertrude Horatio Polonius Laertes Ophelia | 16 | |
5741420036 | Hamlet basic plot | Hamlet encounters a ghost who claims to be his father -tells Hamlet King Claudius murdered him, and avenge his death Hamlet doesn't know whether or not to act | 17 | |
5741548195 | Hamlet Death: Ophelia | drowns in brook | 18 | |
5741554465 | Hamlet Death: Polonius | stabbed through curtain in Gertrude's room | 19 | |
5741554466 | Hamlet Death: Gertrude | drinks poison | 20 | |
5741556274 | Hamlet Death: Claudius | stab with poison sword and drink poison | 21 | |
5741556275 | Hamlet Death: Laertes | stab with poison sword | 22 | |
5741558817 | Hamlet Death: Hamlet | stab with poison sword | 23 | |
5741465163 | Quote ID: Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt | Hamlet | 24 | |
5741477067 | Quote ID: The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king | Hamlet | 25 | |
5741481223 | Quote ID: "Neither a borrower or a lender be" "This above all to thine self be true" | Polonius | 26 | |
5741493981 | Quote ID: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark | Marcellus, Hamlet | 27 | |
5741502106 | Quote ID: The Lady doth protest to much me thinks | Queen Gertrude, Hamlet | 28 | |
5741508117 | Quote ID: What a piece of work is a man | Hamlet | 29 | |
5741513408 | Quote ID: There's rosemary, that's for rememberence" | Ophelia | 30 | |
5741520751 | Quote ID: "the present death of Hamlet - do it England" | King Claudius | 31 | |
5741526967 | Quote ID: Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia | Laertes | 32 | |
5741530836 | Quote ID: Sweets to the sweet | Queen Gertrude | 33 | |
5741538085 | Quote ID: Goodnight sweet prince flights of angels send rest | Horatio | 34 | |
5741569250 | Hamlet's Madness | Is he really mad or is it an act to throw off King Claudius? | 35 | |
5741573472 | Hamlet and his mom | Are they more than just family members? | 36 | |
5741675014 | Macbeth background | Shakespeare | 37 | |
5741833159 | Macbeth characters | Macbeth Lady Macbeth Three Witches Banquo Fleance King Duncan Macduff | 38 | |
5744985175 | Macbeth Death: Lady Macbeth | kills herself | 39 | |
5744985176 | Macbeth Death: Macbeth | killed by Macduff | 40 | |
5744987115 | Macbeth Death: King Duncan | stabbed in his sleep by Macbeth | 41 | |
5744988020 | Macbeth Death: Banquo | killed by murderers sent by Macbeth | 42 | |
5741853658 | Macbeth basic plot | After battle Macbeth and his buddy Banquo receive a prophecy. They come true. Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth to murder King Duncan and eventually Banquo to secure power. This leads to his madness and eventual death by Macduff | 43 | |
5742102973 | John Donne | metaphysical poet 17th century less formal tone, simple words love, death, man's relationship with God | 44 | |
5742121417 | literary paradox | images or description that appear to be contradictory but reveal deeper truth | 45 | |
5742130229 | A Valediction Forbidding Mourning | John Donne lay people won't understand our love our love is superior bond is spiritual not just physical so it can handle parting conceit: compare a compass to their love -division only spreads their love -shifts like compass -you move when I move -you are the foot in my compass - love centers me -i will eventually return | 46 | |
5742137395 | conceit | poet compares 2 *very* unlike things in a long extended comparison | 47 | |
5742205278 | Meditation 17 | John Donne "No man is an island" "When the bell tolls, it for thee" everyone is connected; Catholic church | 48 | |
5742223631 | Death Be Not Proud | John Donne Death isn't that strong No one dies, they go to heaven sleep is like death Paradox: Death thou shalt die -we live in heaven so death is defeated | 49 | |
5742250661 | A Modest Proposal | John Swift need to shrink the number of poverty sooo... we eat babies -or turn skin into gloves this would... lower number of Roman Catholics provide source of income and food encourage parents to take care of kids | 50 | |
5742323260 | satire vs parody | satire is exaggerated humor to make a serious pont parody just makes fun | 51 | |
5742335631 | An Essay on Man author | Alexander Pope | 52 | |
5742337973 | An Essay on Man meaning | you'll never understand God belief v skepticism, logic v feeling, body v mind all die and make mistakes | 53 | |
5742363215 | "half to rise and half to fall" | An Essay on Man | 54 | |
5742363216 | "The glory jest and riddle of the world" | An Essay on Man | 55 | |
5742368382 | Auld Lang Syne author | Robert Burns | 56 | |
5742375195 | Auld Lang Syne meaning | Scottish dialect talk and drink with old friends New Year's song | 57 | |
5742384192 | Chimney Sweeper author | William Blake | 58 | |
5742384193 | Chimney Sweeper meaning | innocence:dream of "coffins of black"; bite your tongue, be happy in heaven experience: depressed, pretend to be ok, parents at Church | 59 | |
5742403051 | Lamb/Tyger author | William Blake | 60 | |
5742405634 | Lamb/Tyger meaning | Lamb: God made you little guy Tyger: God as a blacksmith good v evil; lambs v tigers | 61 | |
5742418076 | She Walks in Beauty author | Lord Byron | 62 | |
5742424283 | She Walks in Beauty meaning | innocent pure love , like the night in moonlight good person beautiful thoughts lead to beautiful face | 63 | |
5742436957 | Ozymandias author | Percy Byshhe Shelley | 64 | |
5742442266 | Ozymandias meaning | legs and head of statue in desert dictator wanted to be immortalized sculpted to look mean once in front of great city | 65 | |
5742453931 | Ode on a Grecian Urn author | John Keats | 66 | |
5742457129 | Ode on a Grecian Urn meaning | artifact vase -boy about to kiss girl, forever young and happy -cow with wreath of flowers being led through empty town -flutist playing songs under tree, forever happy reminds him of eternity | 67 | |
5742632379 | "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" | Ode on a Grecian Urn | 68 | |
5742653725 | To an Athlete Dying Young author | A. E. Housman | 69 | |
5742655939 | To an Athlete Dying Young meaning | best way to die never ruined/lost name not witness loss of your record people still know your glory "laureled head" | 70 | |
5742682327 | Jabberwocky author | Lewis Caroll | 71 | |
5742682328 | Jabberwocky meaning | dangerous monster in woods kid kills it, returns to father he is proud | 72 |
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