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Fifth Secondary English Literature
Name: ………………………………………………….
Teacher: Luz Maria Alvarez-Calderon
Section: ……………….
Date:…………………….. List No:…………
English Dept. Coord: Mrs. Maria Kovacs
General Culture Exercise: The Renaissance
Answer the following questions about the Renaissance, pages 28 to 30 of your Literature handbook.
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Where and when did the Renaissance begin?
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What is the new view of life that appears during the R.?
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Who is the ideal Renaissance man?
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Why (Q. 5)?
In what year and period did the Renaissance arrive in England?
What change takes place in the Late Renaissance?
Who is the father of the Italian Renaissance?
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What are two essential characteristics of the sonnet?
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What was the best type of government in M.’s opinion?
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What is the topic (subject matter) of “The Prince”?
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What was the Elizabethan period called in ref. to Literature?
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To whom did Shakespeare dedicate his sonnets?
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Define Humanism.
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If you could go back in time to the Renaissance, where would you like to go? Whom would you like to meet? What would you like to see? Why?
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Put the following periods in chronological order. Make sure that simultaneous periods appear together.
Enlightenment, Greece, Industrial Revolution, Judaeo-Christian Tradition, Middle Ages, Realism, Renaissance, Romanticism, Rome, Twentieth Century
How many poems did Petrarch write in the Canzonieri?
How are ideas organized in a sonnet?
Who inspired Petrarch to write his sonnets?
Who is the father of Political Science?
Who studied the nature (the essence) of power?
What was Machiavelli’s political dream?
What did Machiavelli wish from Lorenzo de Medici?
Who was Machiavelli’s model for a prince?
What was Shakespeare’s sonnet structure?
Which R. poet idealizes his muse (woman who inspires him)?
Which poet’s sonnets usually have a happy ending?
What do you think Macchiavelli’ s fiction works (plays and novels) were like? (Themes, tone, etc.) Why?