Download Renaissance Period + Sonnets NOTES

Renaissance Period + Sonnets NOTES
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English Renaissance (_______________-________________)
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European Renaissance period begins in _____th Century in _____________________________.
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Renaissance means _____________________________.
Medieval World View
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Renaissance World View
The English Renaissance began when the _____________________________ ended and King Henry VII came to
power.
Importance of Henry VII (for Renaissance period)
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After King Henry VII dies, _________________________ succeeds the throne in __________________.
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He was a skilled ________________________, _____________________, ________________________.
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He was well educated in _____________________, ____________________, _____________________..
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King ________________’s many wives:
Catherine of Spain
Anne Boleyn
Jane Seymour
Anne of Cleves
Kathryn Howard
Kathryn Parr
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King ________________’s
children and their rule over England:
Edward
Mary
Elizabeth I
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The Renaissance period ends with the rule of King _____________________ and King _____________________,
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The ___________________________________ period begins where the flourish of the renaissance period dissipates
and the “divine right of kings” becomes the new rule of England. There is much civil unrest and thus, fictional literature
dissipates and _____________________________ and ________________________become the new trend in writing.
The SONNET form
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_________________ Line Lyric Poem
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Originated in _____________________ in the _____th Century
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Means “_____________________ _____________________” in Italian
Iambic Pentameter = _______________________________________________________________.
Scansion:
• Nor friend nor foe, to me welcome you are
• Thing past redress are now with me past care
Poet
Francesco Petrarch
Sir Thomas Wyatt and
Henry Howard
Edmund Spenser
William Shakespeare
Poet’s history/Information/Significance
Sonnet Format