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20 Cards in this Set
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Commitatus
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heroic and kinship values, royal generosity, blood vengeance is a sacred duty
relationship between king and his subjects |
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Litotes
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ironic understatement
*kirthi is somewhat dark |
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Kenning
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hyphenated combination of two words to substitute for a third
*sky-candle (stars) |
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Alliteration
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several words all starting with same sound
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Metonymy
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action is replaced by something close to the subject
*white house issued a statement |
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Synechdoche
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part replaces the whole or a whole replaces the part
*hired hands |
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Caesura
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pause
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Epithet
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descriptive phrase added to name
Jane the Hungry |
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Estates Satire
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representatives fo various classes are portrayed with satiric emphasis on their vices unique to their stations in life
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Romance
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usually long/serious, often poetry; based on allegedly-true history presented by reliable authority; concerned with aristocrats, conveys ideal image of life
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Fabliaux
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brief comic tale, in verse, low/obscene humor; simple straightforward style, working-class characters; exaggerated
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Exemplum
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brief anecdote used in preaching to illustrate moral
(The Pardoner's Tale) |
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Beast-Fable
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short story with moral; characters are talking animals
(The Nun's Priest's Tale) |
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Literary Confession
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dramatic monlogue; explains/defends sinful ways
(Wife of Bath's Tale) |
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Palinode
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conclusion, where author distances self from an element of the work; retraction
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Elegy
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lyric poem, no specific rhyme scheme or meter
response to the death of a greatly loved person |
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Sentimentalism
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feelings > thinking
passiong > reason personal instincts of pity, tenderness, benevolence > social duties |
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Evangelicalism
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common ppl are warned that they are all sinners and damned unless they accept salvation through faith
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Solipsism
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one's own consciousness cannot know anything beyond its own content
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Atavism
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regression to more primitive state (Lord of the Flies)
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