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24 Cards in this Set
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The flea |
by John Donne conceit that describes a flea but really is sex and why a girl should have sex with him |
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The sun Rising |
John Donne describes the rising sun and how it is not doing good because it is interrupting him and his lover |
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The canonization |
John Donne dont fault him for loving he hasn't caused any harm. their love makes them what they are, they die and rise in love and will be canonized in it |
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Pamphila to Amphianthrus |
Mary Wroth |
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The Description of Cookham |
Aemilia Lanyer praises the estate of her patroness margaret countess of cumberland as being a garden of eden for women |
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To penhurst |
Ben Jonson The estate home of the sidney family not like other country houses not made of gold roofs etc |
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To Saxham |
Thomas Carew another country house poem. didn't read it |
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Patriarcha |
Robert Filmer absolute monarchy and divine right as kings. Attacks jesuits and colvanist. Likes kings power/ divine right/ Adam was the first king |
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The tenure of kings and magistrates |
John milton defends rights of people; advocates forming commonwealths and elections. doesn't like tyrants. wants to limit power. |
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Areopagitica |
John Milton arguing for freedom of the press and against censorship |
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The Disapointment |
Aphra Behn Lysander has sex with cloris, prematurely ejaculates, the awkward one from discussion class |
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An essay on Criticism |
Alexander pope true genius and judgement are rare gifts of heaven; but also some can develop this. |
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Mac Flecknoe |
John Dryden In a land of stupidity, the most stupid son takes the throne to wage war on wit |
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A tale of a tub |
Jonathon Swift 3 brothers represent 3 primary branches of christianity. Get three coats from god/father all change the coats against fathers advice. |
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metaphysical poetry |
intellectualized poetry marked by conceits, incongruous imagery, complex thoughts, paradoxes, harsh expression, rejects worldy value systems. |
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metaphysical conceit |
intellectual device that sets up an analogy between spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world |
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country house poem |
compliments a wealthy patron or friend through a description of his country house |
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pathetic fallacy |
attribution of human feeling and responses to inanimate things or animals |
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Bathos |
an effect of an anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or rediculous |
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Neoclassicism |
the revival of a classical style |
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Parrallelism |
the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond to structure, sound, meter etc |
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antithesis |
two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect |
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chiasmus |
gramatical structures are repeated in reverse order |
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Caesure |
a break between words within a metrical foot |
