| A | B |
|---|
| Sonnet | Poem with 14 lines |
| Petrarchan Sonnet (Italian) | 14 lines, Iambic Pentameter, Octave, Sestet |
| Octave | 8 Lines (usually first 8) |
| Sestet | 6 Lines (usually last 6 lines) |
| Conceit | Comparison used to make a point |
| Italian Sonnet Rhyme Scheme | abba*abba*cdc*cdc |
| English (Shakesperean) Sonnet Rhyme Scheme | abab*cdcd*efef*gg |
| Spenserian Rhyme Scheme | abab*bcbc*cdcd*ee |
| English Sonnet | 14 lines, Iambic Pentameter, 3 Quatrains and 1 couplet |
| Spenserian Sonnet | 14 lines, IP, 3 quatrains, 1 couplet |
| Rhyme Scheme | Using the last word of each line to decipher the pattern |
| Quatrain | 4 lines |
| Couplet | 2 Lines |
| Petrarch | Very Famous Italian Poet, Mega Star |
| Spencer | Huge fane of Chaucer, which influenced his writing |
| Volta | The turn or change in thought in a sonnet (yet, but) |
| Sir Thomas Moore | Author of Utopia, High position in Henry VIII's court |
| Peter Giles | Friend who introduces him to a fictional character within book |
| Raphael Hythloday | Fictional character who has been to Utopia |
| King Henry VIII | 1491-1547 Tudor Dynasty, Established Church of England for his own purposes |
| Humanism | Social/religious reform ie:study Sociology, latin and greek, attacked abuses in church |
| King Lear | Father of Cordelia, Regan, Goneril |
| Goneril | Married to Duke of Albany |
| Regan | Married to Duke of Cornwall |
| Duke of Albany | Not happy with the ugliness of the sisters |
| Cordelia | Banished from kingdom, Married France without dowry |
| Earl of Kent | Banished by Lear for speaking on behalf of Cordelia/comes back in disguise |
| Gloucester | Has two sons, Edgar and Edmund (illegitimate) |
| Edgar | is betrayed by brother in scheme, banished by Gloucester |
| Edmund | betrays brother and father due to greed of inheritance |
| Oswald | faithful servant to Goneril |
| The Fool | stays with king Lear and openly tells Lear he was wrong |
| King of France | Married Cordelia after Burgundy didnt want a wife without a dowry |
| Reformation | A Protestant split from Catholicism due to indulgent teachings |
| Act of Succession | A declaration of loyalty to the church of England, and therefor Henry VIII |
| Act of Supremacy | HenryVIII declares himself head of the church so that he may divorce and marry Anne Bolein |
| What became of Sir Thomas Moore? | was beheaded for not professing his faith for the Henry VIII's church of England, was sainted 400 yrs later |
