[ENGL 203] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (68 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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No one needed to know how to write. King and queens wanted to be entertained not entertain themselves. Poets are latin literate while the nobles did not need to be. Nobles spoke french while common folk spoke english. Derive from where a written culture is an endemic. The vernacular (mother tongue- italian for dante ) is taught through living in it. There is a secondary language called gramatica (latin) You only learn it through time and study. Latin is not an noble as the mother tongue. Understands the difference between germanic and romance languages. Those who say oc, those who say oil and those who say si for yes. Dante learned to write poems in the romance language that had thematized love. The romance language tradition is to bring in love with war. Dante states the italian language has so many different vernaculars and we should remove the brush".
