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Was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England.
John Donne
When did the age of exploration began?
In the 15th century with Spain and Portugal
The age of exploration is also known as
The age of enlightenment or renaissance
Renaissance means what?
rebirth
What is a cultural movement?
Renaissance
The thinkers of renaissance was called as?
Humanists. The subject of study is man and not god
Who invented the 1st printing press in Germany?
Johannes Gutenberg
Considered as one of the greatest English
Thomas More
Also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era
Christopher Marlowe
Was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems
Robert Herrick
Was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678.
Andrew Marvell
Was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
William Shakespeare
Was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English languag
Edmund Spenser
Was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy.
Ben Jonson
Was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil War
Richard Lovelace
1st Viscount St Alban, PC, also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.
Francis Bacon
Was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost,
John Milton
Was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, which also became an influential literary model
John Bunyan
Was an English poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit - the accomplishments of a Cavalier poet. He also invented the card game cribbage
Sir John Suckling
shakesperean sonnet
It is a poem predominantly written in meter called iambic pentameter
Consists of 10 syllables
Rhyme Scheme
What do you call when it is divided into 5 pairs?
Iambs or iambic feet
Prorsus means
Straightforward
What is prose
Written in a pattern of ordinary spoken language with a common flow of conversation
Grammatical structure of prose
sentences and paragraphs
What are the two types of prose
Fiction and non-fiction
A series of imagined facts; a product of author's imagination
Fiction
Examples of fiction
Short story, Novel and novella
brief artistic form of prose that centered on a main incident
short story
a more extensive prose which can expand into chapters
novel
shorter than a novel but longer than a short story
Novella
Prose that based on facts rather than on the imagination
Non-fiction
Examples of non-fiction
essay, biography, autobiography, and memoir
a composition usually expository in nature with a particular topic/subject
essay
