French 202 Exam 1

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Moyen Age

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Feodalite, L'amour Courtois, Oratores, Bellatores, Laborantes, Sorbonne, La Guerre de 100 ans

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Premier Document

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Politique

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Premiere litterature

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Religieuse

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Charles d'Orleans biographical

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Father assassinated, mother and wife died by 15 yrs, prisoner in 100 years war for 25 years, freed by son of father's assassin.

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Charles d'Orleans poetry

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Rondeau, fixed form, Le Printemps, religious symbolism, Moyen Age, Personnification

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Rondeau

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Charles d'Orleans, repeated refrain at least twice, once at the beginning and at the end.

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Personnification

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giving an inanimate object human characteristics. Ex: Le temps a laissie son manteau

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Le Lai

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Marie de France, a narrative poem composed of a variable number of lines and stanzas. Usually sung, accompanied by harp. Made for nobles. L'amour courtois

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Marie de France

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Not much is known about her except she's from the Isle of France, educated, noble, knew Latin, English, and French

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Le Lais du Laustic

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Le Rossignol, speaking through windows, killed the nightingale, embroidered the tapestry, etc.

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Nouvelle

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Prose, offers a view of daily life, Les Quinze Joies de Marriage

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L'Allegorie

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Personify things like love, sadness, jealousy, courtesy, etc. Les Cites des Dames

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Les Quinze Joies de Marriage

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Anonymous, the woman conspires with her cousin who's not really her cousin and spends all her husband's money.

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Christine de Pizan

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Grew up in court, received an education in ancient languages and literature, had a happy marriage, was a widow for 25 years, feminist,

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Le Cite Des Dames

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Christine de Pisan is reading poetry and is appalled by how terrible women seem to be. Three women (allegories for reason, right, and justice) appear to her and tell her to use the language to her advantage.

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Renaissance

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L'humanisme, College de France, Guerres de Religion, Guerre avec l'Italie, L'imprimerie, Pleiade

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Pleiade

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du Bellay, Ronsard

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Francios I

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wanted to expand empire, wars with Italy, which brought the Renaissance to France, encouraged humanism with his patronage of artists, founded the College of France

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Humanism

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an alliance between the wisdom of the antiquity and modern reason

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College de France

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founded by Francois I, taught ancient languages (considered heretical by the church)

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Les Guerres de Religion

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millions of protestants were massacred, ended with the Edict of Nantes signed by Henry IV

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Satire

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2 definitions: farce, or using latin literature, and a mixture of genres, meters, and forms. Used to to mock society

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Rabelais

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humanist, doctor, writer, monk, wrote Pantagruel and Gargantua. Pantagruel was condemned by the Sorbonne

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Gargantua

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Rabelais, Giant represents everything it means to be human, eats pilgrims in a salad

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du Bellay

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Noble family, Defense et Illustration de la Langue Francais: enrich French by imitating the ancients, Pleiades, partially deaf, went to Rome, homesick

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Comparison

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simile: comme, etre pareil a, resembler a, etc.

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metaphore

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la vie est un longue fleuve tranquille

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periphrase

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capitale de France instead of Paris. Using more words to say something.

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Antithese

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Je vis, je meurs

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Ode

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each stanza has the same number of lines, Ode to something

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Sonnet

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2 quatrains and 2 tercets, ABBA, ABBA, CC, DEDE

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Rime Embrassee

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ABBA

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Rime Plat

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CC

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Rime Croisee

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DEDE

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Heureux qui,Comme Ulysse, a fait un bon voyage

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du Bellay, homesick poem

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Ronsard

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Ode a Cassandre, Raised in the court of Francois I. partially deaf, Pleiade, wrote poetry for royalty, sonnets

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Ode a Cassandre

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Ronsard, Mythological (Cassandra saw the future but no one would believe her) and autobiographical, seize the day,

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Louise Labe

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Lyon, received an exceptional education, poetry expressed desire, many lovers

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Je vis, je meurs

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Louis Labe, desire, antithese,

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Essai

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literary experiment, discussing a theme, "De..."

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Montaigne

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essais, in a family of recent nobles, received a humanist education, his father forced him to speak only Latin when he was young, 2 editions of Essais, 3rd published posthumously

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Des Cannibales

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Montaigne, begins by telling people not to read because it was written only for family and friends, reassesses initial prejudices, doesn't expect audience to change their minds