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| 7526019716 | Western Canon Music | Beatles, Elvis, Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson | 0 | |
| 7526028308 | Western Canon Art | Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Picasso | 1 | |
| 7526039648 | Western Canon Literature | Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Bible, Shakespeare's works, Iliad, Odyssey, Beowulf, Canterbury Tales | 2 | |
| 7526044221 | Paradise Lost | 1666, 1667 John Milton took twenty years to write. 450 page poem. Greatest poem ever known. Funny 1666 because it's about Satan. Thirty-five years later were the Salem witch trials. | 3 | |
| 7526067949 | Paradise Regained | sequel. took two years to write. Wrote so he wouldn't get in trouble or accused of worshipping the devil. Presaged the Enlightenment. | 4 | |
| 7526076132 | Satan's old name | Lucifer (bringer of light) | 5 | |
| 7526102729 | Shakespeare | wrote about 37 plays, 154 sonnets (1594-1595) when all theatres were closed due to the queen. He would write them because theatres asked for them to perform. And after that he was done with that play. Wrote several long poems. | 6 | |
| 7526122803 | Iliad | means "song of Troy". Really believe Trojan war happened. | 7 | |
| 7526127378 | Eastern Canon Literature | Epic of Gilgamesh. from Mesopotamia (oldest book we have with beginning, middle, end) | 8 | |
| 7526139613 | Registers of Language (levels) | 1. frozen 2. formal 3. consultative ----------- 4. informal 5. intimate | 9 | |
| 7526151203 | Frozen (RoL) | if you reword it, someone will be offended. Ex. pledge, National Anthem. | 10 | |
| 7526157379 | Formal (RoL) | language of academics, money, business | 11 | |
| 7526163495 | Consultative (RoL) | little formal, little informal - office talk. About 100,000 of the words we use today. | 12 | |
| 7526173546 | Informal (RoL) | how we speak in every day use | 13 | |
| 7526178731 | Intimate (RoL) | language of "lovers". talking to dogs, babies. About 900-1200 of the words we use today. | 14 | |
| 7526197382 | Canterbury Tales | whole book written out of all different methods of writing. short stories, poems, etc. Literacy about pilgrims telling stories as they're walking to Canterbury. Crazy different stories - some from uneducated, criminals, etc. Author is Geoffrey Chaucer. Wrote from 1390-1400. Actually never finished because he died. | 15 | |
| 7526230050 | The History of English | Old English: ?-1100 Middle English: 1100-1500 Early Modern: 1500-1700 (Renaissance, Shakespeare) Modern:1700-now (Enlightenment to now) | 16 | |
| 7526258203 | Julius Caesar | 52 BC. He is said to be the first to write down something and read it on the island of England. | 17 | |
| 7526284722 | Angles | Angles went to Angleland went to England. | 18 | |
| 7548930494 | 1066 AD | William the Conqueror - french invaded Angleland in Dark Ages, set up own aristocracy in French and Latin. Anglo Saxons (old English) was gone. 1066 to England is like 1492 to America. Those mult languages mashed over years and became Middle English. | 19 | |
| 7548952130 | Hagemony | unwritten rules that govern a system/society | 20 | |
| 7548959143 | Epistolary | novel set up to look like letters written chronologically; could be newspapers, diary, etc. Doesn't have to be just letters | 21 | |
| 7548968560 | Most famous epistolary | Dracula | 22 | |
| 7548971099 | Verisimilitude | the state of stimulation of reality/truth. ("Based on a true story" even though sometimes it's not just to get you into it.) | 23 | |
| 7548983529 | Zeitgeist | (German) spirit of the time. (the mood of the people) art that flows out of a particular time and place is this. | 24 | |
| 7548989964 | Metacognition | feeling that you get when you learn something and everything clicks! | 25 | |
| 7548993019 | Raison d'etre | reason for being (the sole purpose of something) | 26 | |
| 7548999900 | Deux ex Machina | character in a situation when they cannot win; a cheap way to get out of it (ex. Harry Potter a lot) Literal translation is "gods in the machine" where machine = the plot. | 27 | |
| 7549008286 | Beowulf | 10% of all older English. Author unknown. King/hero until like 86 years old. Shows never any interests in sex or women. Loses a race but while he's running he slays all the sea creatures making it safe for everyone. | 28 | |
| 7549030615 | Roman Empire Collapses - then Dark Ages - then 5 to 600 years where everyone forgets how to read and write so we don't have anything from that time. | Beowulf was written down in like 1000 AD but really made in 600 AD so was going around orally for hundreds of years. Some Monk saw a play of Beowulf and wrote it all down finally. | 29 | |
| 7549038228 | Ubi Sunt | Latin for "where are they." where are all of the things that used to make life worth living? This question reveals the tone of Beowulf - depressing. Beowulf is an ubi sunt. | 30 | |
| 7549053640 | Mythology of England (2) | Beowulf and Arthurian Legend (King Arthur) | 31 | |
| 7549057594 | Kenning | literary device greatly used in Beowulf. a metaphorical name for something usually with an adjective and noun without actually giving the meaning away. Ex. Beowulf (his name is a Kenning). "Beo" means bee. "Wulf" means hunter. His name is really "bear." - a Kenning | 32 | |
| 7549076036 | Other Examples of Kennings | battle sweat - blood Evil's captain - Satan whale road - ocean | 33 | |
| 7549083070 | Important Kenning in Beowulf is... | is describing a dragon with 7-10 words describing it followed by an appositive with another Kenning describing the same Kenning. Crazy. | 34 | |
| 7549091307 | The Divine Comedy | by Dante Alighieri. (a Catholic and proud descendent of the Romans so the fall of the Roman Empire made him blame Brutus and Cassius.) - 1310 AD. | 35 | |
| 7549103100 | The Divine Comedy's sections | 1. inferno (hell) 2. purgatorio (before heaven) 3. paradiso (heaven) - good ending *Comedies are happy endings instead of tragedies. not all are funny.* | 36 | |
| 7549118469 | TDC's sections brief explanation | inferno starts off with Brutus, Cassius, and JS being chewed on in Satan's mouth. Dante thinks of them as the worst people alive. Paradiso is #3 in reference to the trinity. 3 chapters - Satan has 3 heads, and 3 squared is 9 which is the number of hell. | 37 | |
| 7549138557 | TDC's sections brief explanation Inferno | Entire book of inferno is Dante being taken on a tour through hell. sees many historical people at the front where they're really just annoyed, then continues going through all the levels to the 9th level where inferno ends. | 38 | |
| 7549151435 | TDC's sections brief explanation Purgatorio | through earth. people still sticking around. a wop. sad. | 39 | |
| 7549154156 | TDC's sections brief explanation Paradiso | where a woman named Beatrice takes him on a tur of beautiful heaven. shows him all the good historical figures about. | 40 | |
| 7553831254 | Terza Rima | Three rhyme (ABA/BCB/CDC/DED) rhymes of three stanzas. How Divine Comedy is written. Really easy to spot. Not used often. Shakespeare never uses it. | 41 | |
| 7553831255 | Sonnets | 1. Shakespeare/English 2. Petrarchan/Italian 3. Spenserian All sonnets have 14 lines. Shakespearan is made up of quadrants and couplet at the end. Every line has ten syllables. (ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG) | 42 | |
| 7553892480 | Volta | A turning point | 43 | |
| 7553892481 | Thee | Informal you | 44 | |
| 7553892482 | Fair | Beautiful (the whiter/paler, the more class) | 45 | |
| 7553892483 | Office | Duty | 46 | |
| 7553892484 | Twixt | Between | 47 | |
| 7553892485 | By my sword | I swear to God | 48 | |
| 7553892486 | Belied | To he about (i am belied - people are lying about me) | 49 | |
| 7553892487 | Mark | Notice, listen very carefully | 50 | |
| 7553892488 | Aught | Anything | 51 | |
| 7553892489 | By my troth | I swear on my truth | 52 | |
| 7553892490 | Woe | Misery, sadness, grief | 53 | |
| 7553892491 | Weal | Joy, everything good | 54 | |
| 7553892492 | Intercourse | Conversation (not sex until after WWII) | 55 | |
| 7553892493 | Molest | To bother/annoy (not sex until after WWII) | 56 | |
| 7553892494 | Fondle | Pat someone's head | 57 | |
| 7553892495 | Ere | Before | 58 | |
| 7553892496 | Nigh | Near | 59 | |
| 7553892497 | Dissemble | To lie | 60 | |
| 7553892498 | Awful | Full of awe (compliment) | 61 | |
| 7553892499 | Meet | Appropriate, correct, rightful | 62 | |
| 7553892500 | Henceforth | From here on | 63 |
