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45 Cards in this Set
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periodical essay |
Addison & Steele / Spectator & Tattler short, affordable, frequently published, accessible, easy language, entertainment, ease of style |
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urban pastoral |
representing rurality, rural activities, recreational rural idleness |
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urban georgic |
treats of countryside as place of labor/production rural labor |
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town eclogue |
apply to various kinds of short writings pastoral/rural poetry |
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parody |
imitate/use elements of something for purpose of style satire/mocking |
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burlesque |
sub-type of parody using conventions of a certain genre to mock society/people involved/represented can take high style to low subjects, or vice versa |
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epic simile |
extended simile of several lines, linking by 'so' or 'as' |
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mock epic |
realistic/gritty content satirizes epic; applies lofty language to low subject |
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closed couplet |
2 lines of verse, sense of closure/containment, syntax comes to conclusion, strong pause |
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end-stop |
stopped at the end of the second line with punctuation |
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heroic couplet |
rhymed pair of iambic pentameter lines |
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iambic pentameter |
5 iambs of unstressed/stressed |
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enjambment |
pouring over of one line of poetry to the next |
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elegy |
type of lyric poem that is mourning someone who's lost more generally a poem of mourning/loss |
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lyric |
to show a process of perceptions/feelings single speaker taking you through thoughts/feelings emotional process/thought |
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sonnet |
14 lines petrarchan/italian = 8 lines, turn, 6 lines shakespearean/english = 3 quatrains, turn, couplet |
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sensibility |
human capacity for sensory perception and emotions |
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narrative |
type of poetry that mainly exists to tell a story repetition tragic incident |
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popular ballad |
sub-category of narrative told with dialogue oral poetry, bare essentials, no extra, tight, refrain from editorializing, reader inferring |
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dramatic lyric |
sub-category of lyric "Tintern Abbey" lyric that has another person present in poem |
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dramatic |
dramatic work written in lines of verse
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blank verse |
unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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byronic hero |
introspective, moody, broods a lot, isolated, passionate nature, want to be in charge of their fate/independent, strange secret about them, super-intelligent, reject/defiant to authority, tortured figure, noble class/pedigree |
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closet drama |
drama not intended for the stage or for being performed, just read |
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anti-hero |
flawed, lacking in traditional qualities associated with heroes (power, strength, greatness, nobility, etc.) elicit sympathy from reader |
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frame tale/narrative |
story within a story/tale within a tale |
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objective correlative |
external equivalent for internal state of mind (nature) |
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John Dryden |
1631-1700 heroic couplet, conversational and clear prose, diverse ability "Annus Mirabilis" |
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Anne Finch |
1661-1720 high family born retired into natural surroundings "The Introduction" "A Nocturnal Reverie"
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Jonathan Swift |
1667-1745 satire poetry never without a moral view "A Description of a City Shower" "A Description of the Morning" |
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Alexander Pope |
1688-1744 unique: wit, satire, style, voice large scope of issues being addressed not afraid to take on large entities bravado/ego/confidence "An Essay on Man" "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" "The Dunciad- The Triumph of Dulness" "Essay on Criticism" |
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Samuel Johnson |
1709-1784 critical voice, prose voice truth and realism "Rasselas"
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"Rasselas" |
concern for imagination realities of human life and Johnson's work as a writer novelty of change to solitude is at first good but becomes tedious fancy/imagination very powerful attempting to control nature/ascendancy not to strive after any one thing |
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Thomas Gray 1716-1771
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scholar, classicist, poet surge of interest in lower class/rural folk "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" |
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Charlotte Smith 1749-1806 |
mourning in poems comes from tough life elegaic sonnets, popular, important to sonnet nature in a diff. vein/ human concerns "Written at the Close of Spring" "Written in the Churchyard at Middleton in Sussex" "On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic" |
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William Blake 1757-1827 |
questioning authority, steeped in Bible "Songs of Innocence" "Songs of Innocence and Experience" contrariness produces progression |
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William Wordsworth 1770-1850 |
"Simon Lee" "We Are Seven" "Tintern Abbey" "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" "The Prelude"
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Lord Byron 1788-1824 |
known for being wild fought for working class
"Manfred" |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 |
radical/rebel passionate, bucked pedigree wanted to have a large audience/impact "England in 1819" "Ode to the West Wind" "To A Sky Lark" "A Defence of Poetry" |
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"England of 1819" |
kings and princes French Revolution 1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo economic depression peaceful demonstration led to Peterloo Massacre |
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"Defence of Poetry" |
poets as legislators and prophets unacknowledged legislators that which is true, good, beautiful as well as eternal, infinite, one poets make laws (right laws) but are unacknowledged |
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Mary Shelley 1797-1851 |
"Frankenstein"
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Frankenstein |
frame tale objective correlative Frankenstein and Creature as Byronic Hero? Anti hero? Themes: education, domestic, sympathy
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tragic hero |
character neither thoroughly good or bad, evokes both pity and terror tragic effect stronger if hero is "better" than reader is suffers from some change in fortune - brought from happiness to misery big change could be from a mistake in choice in action or could be a tragic flaw (i.e. too much pride) misfortune seems to be too much, undeserved |
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terza rima |
verse form, rhymed tercets linked by rhyme aba bcb cdc ded etc (i.e. "Ode to the West Wind") |
