Vocabulary

 (official)  

Course Terms

Word Roots

Lit Devices &

Technq. Symbols

People & Characters

Timeline

wholly

cunning

prescribed

oration

precision

wit

azure

prerogatives

artificer

sovereign

conference

obliged

mundane

brutish

prose

doth

ornament

contemporary

diligence

affectation

discourse

disposition

pruning (to prune)

Liberal Arts

essay

applied arts

memorization

The Eagle

The  Big Shaggy

The Humanities

eccentric

scholars

Liber- free (liberal)

Anthropo- man (anthropology)

-ist - person who (humanist)

Of Studies-

metaphor

simile

“Natural abilities are like natural plants.”

parallelism

repetition

analogy

the Eagle-

personification

hyperbole

assonance

“falls, walls, and crawls”

alliteration

Pico della Mirandola-

Simile

“Like a free and sovereign artificer”

hyperbole

History for Dollars-

metaphor

analogy

“Your boss is either like Narcissus or Solon”

personification

hyperbole

The Eagle

Francis Bacon

Michel De Montaigne

David Brooks

Robert Penn Warren

Pico Della Mirandola

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) *hinting that the book he wrote was written in the 1500's*  

Francis Bacon

 (1561-1626)

Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Oration on the dignity of man was 1486 (Renaissance) by Pico Della Mirandola

*Pico- (1463-1494)

Classical+medieval=Italian Renaissance