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New Historicist

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a school of criticism holding that the past cannot be known objectively. According to this view, because historians project their own "narrative" (their own invention or "construction") on the happenings of the past, these writings are not bojective but are at bottom political statements.

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the function of a lymerick

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a poetic form used to tell a joke, the last line being the punch line

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found poetry

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something not really intended to be a poem, however it can be considered as one

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onomatopoeia

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words that describe sounds, that produce the sounds they describe

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hyperbole

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an extreme exaggeration

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edenic

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meaning eden like (very peaceful and very calm) an example of Romantic Poets

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Idyllic

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ideal, perfect, beautiful unrealistic settings

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rhyme

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similarity or identity of accented sounds in corresponding positions

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personification

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a kind of figurative langage in which an inanimate object, animal or nonhuman is given human traits

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elegy

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a lyric poem, usually a meditation on death

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imagery

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establised by language that appeals to the senses, especially sight, but also other senses

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quatrain

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a stanza of four lines

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triplet

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a group of three lines of verse, usually rhyming

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Petrarchan sonnet

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a poem of 14 lines, consisting of an octave and a sestet

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Shakespearean sonnet

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a poem of 14 lines (three quatrains and a couplet) rhyming

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verse paragraph

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a paragraph of blakc verse that presents a unit of thought

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feminist approach

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look at what types of roles the charcters are expectedto follow (examines the different cultural expectations of men and women)

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queer theory

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looks at relationships in same gender (homosocial, homosexual, between people of the same gender)

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mythographical approach

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joseph campbell and carl jung

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psychoanalytical approach

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Freud and Lacan- symbolism- phallilc symbols- masculinity

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historical approach

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means to look back and see what is going on during the time of the story

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literary history

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look at the way the canon has changed the work of art

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biographical approach

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looks at the history of the author

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marxist

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looks at larger economical approaches such as class issues

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cultural approach

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the ways that cultural influences change things

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explicit requirements

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Position
Argumentative
Specific
Analytic
Reasons

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formalist

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looks at the form, and structure of the poem

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Paraphrase

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summarize in your own words

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Explicate

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explanation line by line of whats going on

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Syntax

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structure of the sentence

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Passive Voice

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the subject of the sentence is having the action done to them

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Active voice

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The subject of the sentence is actually doing the action in the sentence
Ex: Peter slapped Mary

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Denotation

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dictionary definition "literal meaning"

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Conotation

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all of the associated meaning

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scan

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looking for metrical patterns and identifying them

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Lymerick

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Lines 1,2 and 5 Rhyme, Lines 3 and 4 rhyme. Rhyme pattern: aabba- 1,2&5 have 3 anapestic feet 3&4 have 2 anapestic feet

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iamb

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unstressed stressed

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Fixed form

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a set pattern of rhythm, meter and rhyme

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haiku

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three lines with 17 syllables: 5,7,5 subject matter is usually nature or images

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Rhyme scheme

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a a b b a (pattern of lines)

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couplet

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the pair of lines that rhyme adjacent to each other

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heroic couplet

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has a specific recognizable rhyme pattern of ordinary english pro's: 5 feet of iambs

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Rhetoric

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persuasive language

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Rhetorical

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Pertaining to language, especially persuasive language

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Rhetorical analysis

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analyzing the language of the arguement

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argueability

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to test: think if reasonable people

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implicit arguement

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not directly stated- inplied arguement

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explicit arguements

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actually spelled out

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counter-reading

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read something deliberately different that the author wanted (one reason is to figure out the indeterminacies of the work)