Semester One Final – Study Guide
To prepare for the semester final, you will want to revisit our work with following texts, concepts, and themes.
You are encouraged to look over relevant notes, journals, and assignments, as well as the texts themselves.
Texts
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Concepts/Themes
“The Seafarer”
Beowulf
“Martyrdom” – Grim
The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
The Magna Carta
The Tragedy of Macbeth – Shakespeare
A Journal of a Plague Year – Defoe
“On Monsieur’s Departure” – Elizabeth I
Utopia – More
Sonnets 29, 106, 18, and 30 – Shakespeare
“Soleasi…” and “Gli Occhi…” – Petrarch
Sonnet 30 – Spenser
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Ambition
Corruption
Faith
Fate
Humanism
Loyalty
Politics
Power
Religion
Succession