English Final Vocab

English 1320 with Schoolfield at University of North Texas

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Locke

Blank slate theory. States that when you are born you have no knowledge of the world, and must gain it all through your senses. (e.g. the monster)

Plato's view on blank slate

Plato believed that you were born into the world with suppressed knowledge

Rousseau

Rousseau believed that civilization is a corrupting influence

Storm und Drag

storm and stress

Mannheim Steamroller

musical term where pitch and volume build with lots of emotional amplitude

Sorrows of Young Werther

influential and extremely sad book where the main character commites suicide after his loves marries another

Faust

Faust was a medieval character who makes a deal with the devil to acquire all knowledge

Anithero

common Victorian era protagonist

Overreacher

tries to exceed bounds of nature. often isolated from society

Orphan

popular as it frees characters from parental obligation

Bildungs Roman

genre that follows one character through life and focuses on their change

Doppleganger

a double; character who looks very similar, but has some important difference (e.g. an evil twin)

Canticle

a song

Canticle of Mary (Magnificant)

part of vespers (evening prayer)

Canticle of Simeon (nunc Dimittis

part of compline (service later at night)

Canticle of Zechariah

part of matins (morning prayer)

Immaculate conception

refers to the birth of Jesus by the virgin Mary

Preternatural

something above the natural, but not quite supernatural (e.g. rain without clouds)

Vexilla

flag

Mandatum

master washes the feet of the servants

Albertus Magnus

Dominican friar who was the patron of science and alchemy

Seven

Reccuring number in the bible

disparate items

the idea that something is used for the thing it looks like

(e.g. thinking that eating heart shaped leaves will help your heart)

Perennials

special editions of books sold by the church to raise money

Freud theory

ego: "you should go eat chocolate"

id: "why do you want to eat the chocolate"

super ego: "you really shouldn't eat chocolate

Eclogues

pastoral poems favoring country over city

Vergilis

means want; he is pointer to Christian

Bohemian soul

said to be creative, imaginitive, loving, and beautiful

Syllogism

infering something based on two facts

Royal Society

helped to get rid of alchemy

Distributism

where you distribute wealth so everyone has enough

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