1. The English Renaissance

2. The Renaissance
Characterization by renewed interest in science, art, and learning

3. Humanism Era of intellectual inquiry and artistic activity
Interest in events in the world, not the afterlife.
Emphasis on independent thinking

4. Protestant Reformation
Protest against Roman Catholic Church

5. Sonnets Structured poem about love and mortality
Written in iambic pentameter
Italian and English, Spenserian

6. Rhyme Pattern English abab cdcd efef gg Italian abbaabba cdecde
abbaabba cdcdcd

7. Sestet-6 lines
Octave-8 lines
Quatrain-4 lines
Couplet-2 lines
Volta-Change in the poem’s attitude, tone, etc.