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29 Cards in this Set
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"art for art's sake" |
19th century focus on the art itself not any themes |
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Register |
Varieties of language indicated by social occasion/position, audience, degree of formality required |
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Rhetoric |
The art of effective/persuasive speaking and or writing |
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Drama |
Composition in verse or prose intended to portray life or character, or to tell a story. Usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue. |
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Dramatic monologue |
Poem in which the voice of a historical or fictional character speaks, unedited by the narrator, to an implied but silent audience. |
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Melodrama |
Theatre in which music is used to increase spectators emotional response or to suggest character types. |
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Theatrical |
Marked by extravagant display or exhibitionism |
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Liberal education |
Approach to learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity, change. |
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Chivalry |
Medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social codes. |
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Evangelicalism |
Transdenominasional movement within protestant christianity, tendency towards active expression of/sharing of the gospel. |
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Jeremiad |
Literary work/speech expressing bitter lament or righteous prophecy of doom. |
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Grotesque |
An image or character lacking in symmetry/proportion. Distorted/warped by abysmal forces |
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Aesthetic |
Pertaining to a sense of the beautiful, how something looks. |
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Aestheticisim |
Devotion to pursuit of the beautiful, sensitivity to artistic beauty and refined taste. |
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Pre-Raphaelite |
Movement in lit/art which strove to capture clarity/honesty of early Renaissance painting. |
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Utilitarianism |
A theory in normative ethics holding that the best moral action is the one that maximizes utility. General social welfare. |
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Satire |
A work that ridicules human folly in hopes of reforming it. |
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Allegory |
A work in which abstractions are personified/made concrete. |
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Caricature |
A picture, description, or imitation of a person/thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in such a way as to create a comic or grotesque effect. |
Method of satire |
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Feudalism |
Nobility held lands from the crown in exchange for military service. Vassals were tenants of the nobles. Peasants had to live on their lords land and give him homage. |
Dominant social system |
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Idealization |
Scientific models assume facts about the phenomenon being modeled that are strictly false but make models easier to uderstand or solve |
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Dickens |
Hard Times |
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Thomas Carlyle |
From past and present |
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D.G. Rossetti |
Jenny, The Blessed Damozel |
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E.B. Browning |
The Cry of the Children |
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John Henry Cardinal Newman |
From the idea of university |
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Matthew Arnold |
Dover Beach |
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J.S. Mill |
The subjection of women |
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Tennyson |
The Lady of Shalott |
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