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Classical Period
(Time & Place) |
*400BC-500AD
* Greece and Rome |
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Classical Period
(Main Topics and Themes) |
*Tragic Love
*Accomplishments of heroes *Lives of gods and goddesses *afterlife |
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Classical Period
(Genres) |
*Theatre-+Tragedy (Unity of time-chorus) +Satyr (Comedic take on mythology
*Poetry-+Epic Poems(use of metrical formulas, invocation of muse) +Lyric poems (Verse to be sung or recited, express emotion) |
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Aeschylus
(Period & Works) |
Classical
The Orestia |
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Euripides
(Period & Works) |
Classical
Medea / The Trojan Women |
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Homer
(Period & Works) |
Classical
Odyssey / Illiad |
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Virgil
(Period & Works) |
Classical
The Aeneid |
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Aristotle
(Period & Works) |
Classical
Poetics |
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orace
(Period & Works) |
Classical
The Odes |
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Sappho
(Period & Works) |
Classical
Hymn to Aphrodite |
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Sophocles
(Period & Works) |
Classical
Antigone / Oedipus Rex |
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Juvenal
(Period & Works) |
Classical
Satires |
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Ovid
(Period & Works) |
Classical
Metamorphoses |
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Plato
(Period & Works) |
Classical
The Republic |
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The Medieval Period
(Dates and specific names) |
500 AD- 1066 AD: Early Medieval Period Or Anglo-Saxon/Old English Period
1067AD-1500AD: Medieval Period |
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Medieval Period: Anglo-Saxon/Old English Period
(Main Topics and Themes) |
*Originally spoken(oral poetry)
*Loyalty between chief & warrior *Warrior code *Vengeance/courage in battle *Good/Evil *Christian/Pagan |
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Medieval Period: Late Period
(Main Topics and Themes) |
*Chivalry/Bravery/Adventrue
*Courtesy *Courtly Love/Romance |
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Medieval Period
(Genres) |
*Anglo-Saxon/Old English Poetry:+Formal Language (not everyday)
*Mystery Plays/Morality Plays:+Divine judgment, Sacrifice to salvation+Allegory/saints live, follwing God *Religious Prose:+written for women (Mary magdalene, virgin martyrs) |
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William Langland
(Period & Works) |
Medieval
Piers Plowman |
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Medieval
The Canterbury Tales/ Troilus and Criseyde / The legend of Good Women / Parlement of Fowles |
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Julian of Norwich
(Period & Works) |
Medieval
Revelations of Divine Love |
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the Venerable Bebe
(Period & Works) |
Medieval
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum |
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Geoffrey of Monmouth
(Period & Works) |
Medieval
Historia Regum Britanniae |
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Boethius
(Period & Works) |
Medieval
The Consolation of Philosophy |
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Maria de France
(Period & Works) |
Medieval
The Ysopet Fables / The legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick |
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Sir Thomas Malory
(Period & Works) |
Medieval
Le Morte D'Arthur |
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Chrétien de Troyes
(Period & Works) |
Medieval
Yvain, The knight of the Lion / Perceval, The Story of the Grail / Lancelot, The Knight of the Cart |
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John Gower
(Period & Works) |
Medieval
Confessio Amantis / The Tale of Apollonius of Tyre / Vox Clamantis |
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Caedmon
(Period & Works) |
Medieval
Hymn |
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John Lydgate
(Period & Works) |
Medieval
The life of our lady / The Fall of Princes / The Troy Book |
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The Renaissance Period
(Time & Other name) |
1500-early 1600s
Early Modern Period |
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Renaissance Period
(Main Topics & Themes) |
*Praise of Queen Elizabeth
*Individualism & Person Growth towards Ideal *Revisiting themes from classical *Pastoral (shepherds & country life) *Humanism & Science |
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Renaissance Period
(Genres) |
*Poetry:+Ballad (blissful of country life w/shepherds) +Sonnet (topic love, Individual/groups sonnets call sonnet cycles
*Drama:+blank verse,+subject was England mythological past+Romantic Comedy (Love, quest for--Much takes place outdoors in forests) +Revenge Tragedy (Gruesome/vilent--revenge vs. accepted justice *Travel Writing:+supremacy of English Lang. & Religion --gave details on newly discovered trade routes |
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Thomas Kyd
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
The Spanish Tragedy |
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Sir Philip Sidney
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
Arcadia / Astrophil and Stella / The Defense of Poesy |
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Sir Walter Ralegh
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd |
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William Shakespeare
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
The Merchant of Venice, Othella, A midsummer Night's Dream, Let me not to the marriage of true minds |
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Christopher Marlowe
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
The Jew of Malta / Hero and Leander / The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus / The passionate Shepherd to His Love |
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Elizabeth I
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
The Doubt of Future Foes / On Monsieur's Departure |
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Edmund Spenser
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
The Faerie Queene / Amoretti and Epithalamion / The Shepheardes Calendar |
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Sir Thomas More
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
Utopia, the History of King Richard the Third |
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Mary Sidney Herbert
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
The Tragedie of Antonie / A dialogue between two shepherd / Thenot and Piers |
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Lady Mary Wroth
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
The Countess of Montgomery's Urania |
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John Lyly
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit |
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Thomas Nashe
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
The Unfortunate Traveller / Summer's Last will and Testament |
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Samuel Daniel
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
Delia |
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Michael Drayton
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
Idea |
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John Heywood
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
Of Books and Cheese |
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Ben Johnson
(Period & Works) |
Renaissance
To Celia |
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The Restoration & Neoclassical Period
(Time & where it gets it's name) |
1660-to into the 1800s
Gets name from restoration of Charles II as England king in 1660 |
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Restoration and Neoclassical Period
(Main Topic & Themes) |
*Concept of wit
*Reaction against Puritanism *Didactic message in literary works *Satire w/religion, manners, aristocracy *Attention to classical forms *Advancement in science and knowledge of world |
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Restoration and Neoclassical Period
(Genres) |
* Theatre-+Comedy of Manners (about upper echelons of society, tauget how should and shouldn't act)
*Periodicals:+Weekly magazines & Journals * Mock Epic:+takes classic epic to comedic tropes |
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Aphra Behn
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
Oroonoko |
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Thomas Gray
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
Elegy written in a country churchyard |
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Daniel Defoe
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
Robinson Crusoe |
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Jonathan Swift
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
A Modest Proposal / Gulliver's Travels |
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Alexander Pope
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
Rape of the Lock / An essay on Man |
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Samuel Johnson
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
The Rambler / the History of Rasselas-Prince of Abissinia / Dictionary of the English Language |
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William Congreve
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
The Way of the World |
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Anne Finch
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
The Apology |
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John Dryden
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
Absalom and Achitophel / Annus Mirabilis / All for Love |
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Earl of Rochester
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
the Imperfect Enjoyment |
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Christopher Smart
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry |
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Oliver Goldsmith
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
She Stoops to Conquer / The vicar of Wakefield |
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Samuel Pepys
(Period & Works) |
Restoration and Neoclassical
The Diary |
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The Colonial Period
(Time) |
1607-1765
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The Colonial Period
(Main Topics & Themes) |
*Theories of Enlightenment
*Freedom of Religion *Native American/Colonial Relations *African Slave Trade *English Monarchy *Puritan concept-innate depravity, predestination and destiny |
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The Colonial Period
(Genres) |
*Diaries:+listed daily struggles(Wildness diseases and wilderness in America)
*Sermons:+historical & moral importance of colonies+attack on witchcraft+colonies as purtian religious examples *Histories |
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John Winthrop
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
A Model of Christian Charity |
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John Smith
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
The General History of Virginia |
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Cotton Mather
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
Pillars of Salt / The Wonders of the Invisible World |
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Thomas Harriot
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
Brief and True Report |
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William Bradford
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
Of Plymouth Plantation |
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Samson Occom
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
A Short Narrative of My Life |
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Olaudah Equiano
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
The Interesting Narrative |
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Anne Bradstreet
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
Upon the Burning of Our House / The Tenth Muse |
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Phillis Wheatley
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
On Being Brought from Africa to America / Poems of Various Subjects |
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Michael Wigglesworth
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
The Day of Doom |
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Thomas Paine
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
Common Sense |
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Thomas Jefferson
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
Notes on the State of Virginia / The Declaration of Independence |
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Benjamin Franklin
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
Poor Richard's Almanac |
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J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
Letters from an American Farmer |
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Jonathan Edwards
(Period & Works) |
Colonial Period
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
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The Revolutionary Period
(Time) |
1765-1830
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The Revolutionary Period
(Main Topics & Themes) |
*social mobility in new nation
*ordinary people in their communities *enlightenmen of scientific inquiry, human reason, mutual sympath *Sentiment as guiding principal *Idealism and common sense *wit |
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The Revolutionary Period
(Genres) |
*Non-Fiction (newspaper & periodical)--articles that use satire to make judgments, Editorial on political subjects, womens writers emerge, polemic style
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Royall Tyler
(Period & Works) |
Revolutionary Period
The Contrast |
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Thomas Paine
(Period & Works) |
Revolutionary Period (and Colonial)
Common Sense / The American Crisis |
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Thomas Jefferson
(Period & Works) |
Revolutionary Period (and Colonial)
Notes of the State of Virginia |
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Phyllis Wheatley
(Period & Works) |
Revolutionary Period (and Colonial)
To the University of Cambridge in New england / Poems of various subjects / On being brought from Africa to America |
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Benjamin Franklin
(Period & Works) |
Revolutionary Period (Colonial)
Poor Richard's Almanac / The Autobiography |
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Washington Irving
(Period & Works) |
Revolutionary Period
The Sketch Book |
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Susannah Rowson
(Period & Works) |
Revolutionary Period
Charlotte Temple |
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William Hill Brown
(Period & Works) |
Revolutionary Period
The Power of Sympathy |
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James Fenimore Cooper
(Period & Works) |
Revolutionary Period
The Spy |
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J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
(Period & Works) |
Revolutionary and Colonial Period
Letters from an American Farmer |
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Charles Brockden Brown
(Period & Works) |
Revolutionary Period
Wieland |
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The Romantic Period
(Time) |
Late 18th-to mid-19th century
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The Romantic Period
(Main Topics & Themes) |
*Emphasis individual, emotions, imagination
*subjective & intuitive experience (<3 be ur guide *mysteries of nature as a religious experience *interest in super-natural & mysterious *gothic, subline, sturm und drang, orientalism |
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The Romantic Period
(Genre) |
*Poetry
*Gothic Novel |
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Lord Byron
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
Lara / Childe Harold's Pilgrimage / Don Juan / The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale |
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Mary Shelley
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
Frankenstein |
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William Blake
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell / The Tyger |
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William Wordsworth
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
Tintern Abbey / The Prelude, Guide to the Lakes |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner / Frost at Midnight / Religious Musings |
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Ann Radcliffe
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
The Mysteries of Udolpho / The romance of the Forest / The Italian: or The Confessional of the Blank Penitents |
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William Gilpin
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
Observations on the River Wye |
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Matthew Gregory Lewis
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
The Monk |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
Mont Blanc / Alastor / Prometheus unbound / Queen Mab |
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Jane Austen
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
Northanger Abbey |
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John Keats
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
To Autumn |
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Frances Sheridan
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
The History of Nourjahad |
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Lady Caroline Lamb
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
Glenarvon |
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William Beckford
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
Vathek |
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Thomas Gray
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
Journal in the Lakes |
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Horace Walpole
(Period & Works) |
The Romantic Period
Castle of Otranto |
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Realist Literary Period
(Time & Other name) |
19th century
Also called Victorian Period because it overlaps w/Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) |
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Realist Literary Period
(Main Topics & Themes) |
*Industrial Revolution
*Portraying life as really was-writing about poor and domestic life *Role of Women:women's suffrage, right to own land, education *American Realism:westward expansion, race relations, writers wrote in dialect (just like people talked *verismilitude, local color, regionalism, concrete detail |
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Realist Literary Period
(Genre) |
*Poetry
*Novels *Periodicals (Newspaper, journals) |
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John Ruskin
(Period & Works) |
Realist Literary Period
Of Queen's Gardens |
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George Gissing
(Period & Works) |
Realist Literary Period
The Odd Women |
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Charlotte Bronte
(Period & Works) |
Realist Literary Period
Jane Eyre |
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Elizabeth Eastlake
(Period & Works) |
Realist Literary Period
Lady Travellers |
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Rudyard Kipling
(Period & Works) |
Realist Literary Period
The White Man's Burden |
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Period & Works) |
Realist Literary Period
Minute on Indian Education |
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Josephine Butler
(Period & Works) |
Realist Literary Period
Our Indian Fellow Subjects |
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Henry Mayhew
(Period & Works) |
Realist Literary Period
London Labour and The London Poor |
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Constance Fenimore Woolson
(Period & Works) |
Realist Literary Period
Miss Grief |
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Kate Chopin
(Period & Works) |
Realist Literary Period
the Awakening |
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Sarah Orne Jewett
(Period & Works) |
Realist Literary Period
A White Heron |
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Mark Twain
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
Life on the Mississippi / Huckleberry Finn |
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Ambrose Bierce
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
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Anna Leonowens
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
The English Governess at the Siamese Court |
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Elizabeth Gaskell
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
Mary Barton |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
Cry of the Children |
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Mary Austin
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
The Land of the Little Rain |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
The Yellow Wallpaper |
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Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
Who Would Have Thought It? |
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W.E.B. DuBois
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
Souls of Black Folk |
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Charles Chesnutt
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
The Wife of His Youth |
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Booker T. Washington
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
Up From Slavery |
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Charles Dickens
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
David Copperfield / Great Expectations |
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William Booth
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
In Darkest England and the Way Out |
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Christina Rossetti
(Period & Works) |
Realistic Literary Period
Goblin Market |
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The Modernist Literary Period
(Time & Influence) |
1900-1930
Influenced by WWI |
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The Modernist Literary Period
(Main Topics & Themes) |
*Experimentation w/literary forms:+made works difficult to read, disconnected thought & images, stream of consciousness
*?ed traditional literary forms & truths-thought older was fake & artificial *influenced by psychoanalysis &frued (Interested in unconscious *felt alienated from past &future *stream of consciousness, imagism, surrealism, existentialism |
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The Modernist Literary Period
(Genre) |
*Poetry
*Novels |
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T.S. Elliot
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
The Hollow Men / The Waste land / The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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James Joyce
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
Ulysses / Araby |
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Susan Glaspell
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
Trifles |
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William Faulkner
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
The Sound and The Fury / Barn Burning |
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Ernest Hemingway
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
A Farewell to Arms / The Snows of Kilimanjaro |
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Nella Larsen
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
Quicksand |
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Willa Cather
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
My Antonia / Paul's Case |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
The Great Gatsby |
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Virginia Woolf
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
To the Lighthouse / Mrs. Dalloway |
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John Steinbeck
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
The Grapes of Wrath / The chrysanthemums |
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Zora Neale Hurston
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
The Gilded Six-Bits / Their Eyes were Watching God |
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Katherine Anne Porter
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
Flowering Judas |
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W.E.B. DuBois
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
The Souls of Black Folk |
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Ezra Pound
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
In a Station of the Metro |
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William Carlos Williams
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
The Red Wheel barrow |
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Jean Toomer
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
Reapers |
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Hart Crane
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
The Bridge |
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Langston Hughes
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
The Weary Blues |
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H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
(Period & Works) |
Modernist Literary Period
The Walls Do Not Fall |
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The Post-Modern Literary Period
(Time) |
1945-Present
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The Post-Modern Literary Period
(main topics & themes) |
*rejection of traditional forms-including novels
*experimentation w/literary forms *fragmentary style & lack of historical congruity *themes of alienation & existential thought *metafiction, magical realism, existentialism |
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The Post-Modern Literary Period
(Genre) |
*Beat Poetry
*Anti-Novel |
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Anne Sexton
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
The Death Notebooks |
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Jack Kerousac
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
On the Road / The Dharma Bums |
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Ralph Ellison
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Invisible man |
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Thomas Pynchon
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Gravity's Rainbow |
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James Baldwin
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Going to Meet the Man / Go Tellit on the Mountain |
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Gloria Anzaldua
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Borderlands / la Frontera |
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Donald Barthelme
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
The Dead Father |
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Tennessee Williams
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
A Streetcar Named Desire |
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John Updike
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Rabbit / Run / The Witches of Eastwick |
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Allen Ginsberg
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Reality Sandwiches, Howl and Other Poems |
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Gary Snyder
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems |
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Sylvia Plath
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Ariel / The Bell Jar |
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Alic Walker
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
The Color Purple |
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Toni Morrison
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Sula / The Bluest Eye |
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Flannery O'Conner
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
A Good man is Hard to Find / Wise Blood |
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Leslie Marmon Silko
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Ceremony |
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Adrienne Rich
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Diving into the Wreck |
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John Ashberry
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
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Raymond Carver
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Cathedral |
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Maxine Hong Kingston
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
The Woman Warrior |
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Joy Harjo
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky |
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Donald Barthelme
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Snow White / The Dead Father |
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A.R. Ammons
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
The Snow Poems |
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Annie Dillard
(Period & Works) |
Post-Modern
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
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Hero
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central figure in a narrative. when the protagonist is termed a hero implies a positive moral assessment of the character
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Anti-hero
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a protagonist lacking the qualities attributed to a hero. so instead of being dignified, brave, idealistic, or purposeful..he would be buffoonish, cowardly, self-interested or weak
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Foil
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literally, a "leaf" of bright metal placed under a jewel to increase its brillance. in literature is applied to any person who through contrast underscores the distinctive characteristics of another
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Stock character
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a common or stereotypical character that occurs frequently in literary. Example: mad scientist, strong but silent cowboy ect
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Archetype
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recurring symbol, character, landscape, or event found in myth and literature across different cultures and ears
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Flat Character
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character w/ only one outstanding trait. they are rarely the central characters and stay the same throughout the story
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Round Character
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describes a complex character who is presented in depth and detail. They change significantly during story. Most often they are central characters
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First Person Point of View
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Narrator is a participant in the action and refers to himself or herself as I and may
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3rd Person Objective Point of View
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a type of 3rd person where not seeing point of view or into ANY characters
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3rd Person Point of View
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Narrator uses he or she
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2nd Person Point of View
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Narrator uses you and ya'll
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Naive Narrator
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if character doesn't comprehend the implications of what is told
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Limited Point of View
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presented it as it is seen and understood by a single character, restricting info to what that one character sees, hears, feels and things
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Omniscient Point of View
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Narrator know everything about all characters and events in story. Can move freely from one character to another
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self-efacing Point of View
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author never speaks in his or her own person and does not obviously intrude
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Narrative Exposition Or Panoramic
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the actions and converstaion are presented in summary rather than in detail
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Scenic Point of View
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present actions and conversations in detail, as they occur, adn more or less objectively
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Verbal Irony
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stmt in which the speaker or writer says the opposite of what is really meant. IE: How graceful you are!! after you trip
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Irony of Situation
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when something is about to happen to a character(s) who expect the opposite outcome
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Dramatic Irony
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where audience or reader understands the implication and meaning of situation and foresees the daister or tragedy but character does not see it
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Apostrophe
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figure of speech in which someone iis addressing someone absent or a nonexistent or an object. (talking to deceased leader or object)
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Conceit
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synonymous w/ concept or conception implied something conceived in mind. General found in poem where subject is extensively compared to some object (rose, ship, garden)
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Hyperbole
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overstatement, exaggeration used to emphasize a point
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Metaphor
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meta-beyond, above. a stmt that something is something else w/o using like or as. Ex. Richard is a pig
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Metonymy
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figure of speech in which the name of a thing is substituted for that of another associated w/it. Ex: The White House decided meaning the president decided
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Paradox
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stmt that at first strikes one as self-contradictory, but that on reflection reveals some deeper sense. Ex: less is more, happy sadness, for when I am weak, than I am strong
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Personification
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figure of speech in which a thing, an animal, or an abstract term is endowed with human characteristics
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Simile
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comparison of two things using like, as , than or resembles. Ex. Cool as a cucumber & my love is like a red, red rose
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synecdoche
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use of significant part of thing to stand for the whole of it. to be clear a good synecdoche ought to be directly associated. Ex. "threads" for "clothes", "kicks" for "shoes"
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Transferred Epithet
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figure of speech poet attributes some characteristic of a thing to another. Usually a adjective next to a noun. Ex. "blind mouths" "foreign policy" "fast buck"
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Understatement
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deliberately describing something in a way less than true case
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Diction
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word choice or vocab. used
concrete diction and abstract diction boxer puppy---young canine lake ontario---body of fresh water |
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Tone
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attitude of author towards subject or story
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mood
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emotional attitude of author towards subject
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Allegory
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has two levels of meaning a literal level that tells a surface story and a symbolic level in which the abstract ideas unfold
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Allusion
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reference in text to well=known person place historical, political, cultural event, ect. not usually identified assumed reader will make connection
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Aside
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drama spoken in an undertone or to the audience and other characters are deaf to the aside
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Convention
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any device or style or subject matter which has become recognized mean of literary expression. Ex: "Once upon a time"
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Dialogue
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direct representation of conversation between 2 or more characters
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Deus ex machina
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Latin for "a god from a machine" -refers to when in greek drama a god descended and solved a problem thus enable the play to end. Also, an unexpected or improbably ending
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Flashback
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a scene relived in a characters memory
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In media res
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Latin: "in the midst of things" that refers to beginning a story in the middle of the story
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Non-fiction Novel
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differences fro fiction novel in that it has a linear time sequences and lack of access to inner states of mind and feelings
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Apprenticeship Novel
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Novel that recounts youth and young adulthood of a protagonist attempting to learn the nature of the word and discovers the art of living
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Fable
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a brief tale to point a moral. characters are frequently animals.
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Tale
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"speech" meaning something handed down from the past. Ex: Paul Bunyan
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Parable
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teaches a moral, brief narrative, plot is plausibly realistic and main characters are human not animal or natural forces
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Dramatic situation
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person is involved in conflict
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Exposition
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opening of a story that sets the scene, introduces the main charaters, and other background info
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complication
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conflict is introduced
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Alliteration
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the repetition of two or more consonant sounds in successive words in a line of verse of prose. Sometimes in the middle of words.
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Assonance
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the repetition of two or more vowels in successive words. all the awful auguries
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connotation
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association or addition meaning that a word, image or phrase may carry apart from its literal definition. "She's a bird" meaning a skinny person
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Denotation
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is the literal dictionary meaning of a word
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Epic
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a long narrative usually composed in elevated style. Adventures of legendary or mythic heros
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Epiphany
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a moment of insight, discovery or revelation
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Lyric
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short poem expressing thoughts and feeling. has a song like emotional force
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Monologue
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an extended speech by a single character. a solo speech that has listeners
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Soliloquy
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a solo speech where the character speaks only to himself
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Motif
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an element that recurs significantly throughout the a narrative. (beautiful lady in romances who turns out to be evil or 3 ?'s asked a protagonist to test his wisdom, or recurring music from a melodic fragment)
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Narrative
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an account of events; anything that is narrated. Simple narrative: recites events chronologically-newspaper accounts. Narrative w/plot: less chronologically and arranged by principle by nature of story or plot
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Onomatopoeia
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literary device that attempts to represent a thing or action by the word that imitates the sound associated with it. EX. crash, bang, pitter-patter
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Persona
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Latin for "mask" fictitious character created by author to be speaker of a poem, story, or novel. Is always that narrator of the work not merely a character in it
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Setting
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time and place of literary work
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Epistolary Novel
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novel where story is told by way of letters written by one or more of hte characters.
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Picaresque Novel
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presents the life of likable scoundrel who is at odds w/ society. The Picaro is spanish word for rascal or rogue.
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novella or Nouvelle (french)
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short prose tale. By Italian Renaissance writers and depicted relative realistic terms illicit love, ingenious trickery and sensational adventure with an underlying moral.
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Subplot
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a second story or plot line that is complete and interesting in it's own right.
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Recognition
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the moment of recognition occurs when ignorance gives way to knowledge
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Rising Action
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part of narrative (including exposition) where events start moving toward the climax
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Crisis
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point when the crucial action decision or realization must be made marking the turning point
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Climax
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moment of greatest intensity in story. often near the end of the story
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Falling action
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event in a narrative that follow the climax
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Denouement (resolution)
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the conclusion of literary work as plot are unraveled after climax. in french, denouement means "unknotting or untying"
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Protagonist
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the central character in the literary work. initiates the main action of the story. primary figure is dramatic stituation
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Antagonist
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character who is the primary source of conflict. one that opposes the protagonist. Can be a character, society, force of nature, ect
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Diary
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a personal, intimate account of a person's life
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Journal
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day to day record of events and anecdotes written by a person
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memoir
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a person written recollection of a significant event or time-period
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biography
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written account of a person's life or life history
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autobiography
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the story of a person's life as written by that person
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Free Verse
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from french vers libre. It's poetry that organizes its lines without meter
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Prose Poetry
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in which the poet prints words in a block like prose paragraph. is one block paragraph
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Visual Poetry
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poets trims their lines into the silhouette of a distinctive visible shape
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Found Poetry
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poetry constructed by arranging bits of found prose. nonliterary language arranged for expressive effect.
EX:yield no parking unlawful to pass |
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Accentual-Syllabic Verse
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verse that depends for its rhythm both on the number of syllables per line and on the pattern of accented adn unaccented syllables.
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Ballad
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a poem that recounts a story and was originally intended to be sung.
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Caesura
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latin for a cutting. it is a pause in a line of verse replicating natural breaks in language. often occurs between clauses or sentences or through the peots us of punctuation
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Chorus
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In greek tragedy the chorus sang, danced and interacted with the events of the play and served as a commentator on the characters or events
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Elegy
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referring to poems lamenting the loss of someone or something. used elegiac meter(alternating hexameter to pentameter)
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Farce
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form of low comedy that relies upon exaggerated character action. ivolves from unhappiness to happiness
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Flash Fiction or Sudden Fiction
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short story under 1000 words
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Foot (feet)
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unit of rhythm, created by one or more stressed syllables combined with one or more unstressed syllables
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Genre
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french for type. is used to classify literature according to form, style, or content
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Meter
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rhythms in poetry made by units of sound created by accented and unaccented syllables. Each metrical unit is called a foot or feet in plural form
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Motivation
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reasons why a character acts in a way he or she does. part of characterization.
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ode
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lyric poem with elaborate stanza structure and distinct tone of formality and stateliness. They either address a person or an abstract idea or entity.
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Plot
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the arrangement or design of events, actions and situations. pattern or sequence of events in order to achieve a particular effect.
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Prose
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straightforward discourse. language which is not in verse form
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Scan or Scansion
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the process of analyzing poetry for its rhyme scheme, the number of lines per stanza and its metrical patterns
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Scene
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Subdivision of an act in a play or dramatic performance
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Satire
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Prose, verse, dramatic works that seek to expose the failing of individual, institutions, ideas, communities, society. can range fro mildly humorous to bitter indictment
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Suspense
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uncertainty or anxiety built into the plot
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Enjambement
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french for striding over. occurs when the sense and/or grammatical structure of a sentence moves from one verse line to the next w/o a punctuated pause
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End Rhyme
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similar sound in syllables or paired groups of syllables at the end of a line of verse
Ex: bungee agree me |
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Slant Rhyme
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"near rhyme" sound similar
Ex: eye, light years, yours |
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Eye Rhyme
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where the words look like they would rhyme but don't
EX: love, move cough, bough |
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Exact Rhyme
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spelled and sound the same
car, bar hat, cat |
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Anapestic (anapest)
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common metrical unit of poetry consisting of 2 unstressed syllables followed by 1 stressed syllable
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Bildugsroman novel
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same as Apprenticeship Novel. protagonist from childhood to adulthood
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Blank Verse
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lines of unrhymed verse, almost alway in iambic pentameter
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Carpe diem
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latin for seize the day. frequent theme.
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Comedy
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means anything that is amusing or entertaining. usually involves moving from unhappy to happy.
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Comedy of Manners
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High Comedy. higher class relies on intellectual rather than physical comedy. meant for cultivated audiences
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commedia dell arte
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comedy of the profession aactors. emerged in italy in mid-1600s. involves mostly improvised dialogue surrounding a scenario.
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Couplet
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grouping of 2 rhymed verse lines typically w/ a common metrical pattern or line length
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Dactylic (dactyl)
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common metrical unit of poetry consisting of 1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllables
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Dimeter
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line of poetry consisting of 2 metrical units or feet.
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Shakespearean or English Sonnet
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sonnet is 14 line iambic pentameter.
this sonnet has 3 quatrains (4 lines) and a concluding couplet (2 lines) with an abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme. |
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Heptameter
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line of poetry consisting of seven 7 metrical units or feet
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Hexameter
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line of poetry consisting of 6 metrical units or feet
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Iambic or Iamb
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unit of poetic meter or foot that involves a (1 unstressed syllable) followed by (1 stressed syllable)
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Internal rhyme
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refers to the similar sound in syllables or paired groups of syllables within a line of verse
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Melodrama
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any drama accompanied by music used to enhance mood or emotion
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Monometer
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metrical line of poetry consisting of 1 metrical unit or foot
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Mood
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feeling or emotion created specifically through elements of the setting. atmosphere
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Octameter
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metrical line of poetry consisting of 8 metrical units or feet
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Octave
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grouping of 8 rhymed verse lines typically with a common metrical pattern or line length
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Pentameter
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metrical line of poetry consisting of 5 metrical units or feet
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Petrarchan or Italian Sonnet
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Sonnet is one-stanza poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter.
This sonnet has 2 main parts: an octave (8 lines) w/thyme scheme of abba abba followed by a sestet (6 lines) with a rhyme scheme of cde cde or cdc cdc. |
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Quatrain
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grouping of 4 verse lines w/varying rhyme schemes
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Romantic Comedy
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form of comedy usually involving themes of love. almost always ends happy
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Sestet
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grouping of 6 rhymed verse lines
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Sonnet
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a one-stanza lyric poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme
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Spenserian Sonnet
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has 3 quatrains (4 lines) and a concluding couplet (2 lines) with an abab bcbc cdcd ee rhyme--varied from Shakespearean sonnet's abab cdcd efef gg
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Stanza
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grouping of verse lines often with common rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or line lenght. stanza pattern is detemined by it # of line, # of metrical feet per line, and meter and rhyme
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Tercet or triplet
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grouping of 3 rhymed verse lines
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Tetrameter
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metrical line of poetry consisting of 4 metrical units
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Tragedy
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form of drama or other literary works that usually end in death or some other non comedic event
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Trimeter
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metrical line of poetry consisting of 3 metrical units or feet
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trochaic/trochee
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common metrical unit consisting of (1 stressed syllable) followed by (1 unstressed syllable)
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Nonameter
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metrical line of poetry consisting of 9 metrical units
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Decameter
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metrical line of poetry consisting of 10 metrical units or feet
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Haiku
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Japanese verse. has 3 unrhymed lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables. serious and spiritual in tone. usually set in one of hte 4 seasons
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limerick
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a short and usually comic verse form of 5 anapestic lines usually rhyming aabba. the 1st, 2nd, and 5th lines traditionally have 3 stressed syllables each and the 3rd and 4th lines have 2 stressed syllables each. so 3,3,2,2,3,
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Epigram
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a very short poem, often comic, usually ending w. some sharp turn of wit or meaning
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Triolet
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short lyric form of 8 rhymed lines borrowed from teh french. 2 opeing lines are repeated according to set patter. they are playful but dark lyric peoms
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Villanelle
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fixed form developed by french. consists of 6 rhymed stanza in which 2 lines are repeated in aprescribed pattern
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Sestina
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complex verse "song of sixes" 6 end words are repeated in a prescribed order through six stanzas. sestina ens with an envoy of 3 lines in which all six words appear-for a total of 39 lines
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Burlesque
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form of comedy ridiculous exaggeration and distortion
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Slapstick
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low comedy-physical action and practical jokes
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Low Comedy
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elemental comedy little intellectual appeal--drunkeness, fighting, boasting, ect
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Skene
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in classical times it was the stage house at the amphitheatre
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Classical amphiteatres
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large central open performance areas surrounded by rising seats
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Medieval Picture-framed stage
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held action within a proscenium arch (gateway standing in front of the scenery. It had raised and framed stage separated actors from the audience
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Proscenium Arch
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form in front of the picture-framed stage to make a sort of gateway or tunnel to the stage
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Troubadours
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minstrels and poets
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Madrigal
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a short secular song for 3 or more voices arranged in courterpoint. a madrigal is often about love or pastoral themes
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Thrust Theatre
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Similar to the picture-framed stage except that the stage extends into the audience
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Arena theatre
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modern football type statium
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Theatre of the Absurd
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Post WWII European genre depicting the grotesquely comic plight of human being thrown by accident into an irrational and meaningless world
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Alliteration and Consonance
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Alliteration is the repetition of consonants within words in close proximity. Alliteration generally refers to sounds at the start of a word. Here are two literary examples:feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,
weox under wolcnum, weorþ-myndum þah Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds within words. Consonance is very similar to alliteration, but the distinction between the two lies in the placement of the sounds. If the repeated sound is at the start of the words, it is alliteration. If it is anywhere else, it is consonance. In most cases, consonance refers to the end sound (like "nk" in blank and think |
