Vocablulary Words For Ulrich Engl 373B

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Kenning

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A type of periphrasis, or circumlocution, in which a figurative, often compound phrase is used in place of a simpler or more common term.

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Accentual meter

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which is based on the number of stressed syllables per line.

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alliteration

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The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words.

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Litotes

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From the Greek for "simple" or "meager," a trope that involves making an affirmative point by negating its opposite. For instance, the statement "that's not bad" typically means "that's good."

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Structural Irony

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contain an internal feature that creates or promotes a discrepancy that typically operates throughout the entire work.

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Dream vision

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A type of narrative in which the narrator falls asleep, dreams, and relates the contents of the dream.

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Metaphor

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It associates two distinct things without using a connective word to link the vehicle and the tenor.

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Simile

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A figure of speech (more specifically a trope) that compares two distinct things by using words such as like or as to link the vehicle and the tenor.

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Stanza

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A grouped set of lines in a poem, usually physically separated from other such clusters by a blank line.

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Rhyme

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Broadly, a correspondence or echoing of similar sounds in words.

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Paradox

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A statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface but that, upon closer examination, may express an underlying truth.

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Iambic Pentameter

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Iambic pentameter is a commonly used metrical line in traditional verse and verse drama. The term describes the particular rhythm that the words establish in that line. That rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables; these small groups of syllables are called "feet". The word "iambic" describes the type of foot that is used (in English, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable). The word "pentameter" indicates that a line has five of these "feet".

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Dramatic Irony

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Dramatic irony is when the words and actions of the characters of a work of literature have a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters. This is the result of the reader having a greater knowledge than the characters themselves.

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Heroic Couplet

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A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines. The rhyme is always masculine. Use of the heroic couplet was first pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is also widely credited with first extensive use of iambic pentameter.

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Frame Narrative

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A frame story (also frame tale, frame narrative, etc.) employs a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of shorter stories, each of which is a story within a story. The frame story leads readers from the first story into the smaller one within it.

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Beast Fable

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The beast fable or beast epic, usually a short story or poem in which animals talk, is a traditional form of allegorical writing. It is a type of fable in which human behavior and weaknesses are subject to scrutiny by reflection into the animal kingdom.

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Mystery Play

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Medieval mystery plays focused on the representation of Bible stories in churches as tableaux with accompanying antiphonal song.

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Morality Play

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The morality play is a genre of Medieval and early Tudor theatrical entertainment. In their own time, these plays were known as "interludes", a broader term given to dramas with or without a moral theme. Morality plays are a type of allegory in which the protagonist is met by personifications of various moral attributes who try to prompt him to choose a godly life over one of evil.

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Tragedy

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is a form of drama based on human suffering.

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Tragic Irony

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Tragic irony is a special category of dramatic irony. In tragic irony, the words and actions of the characters contradict the real situation, which the spectators fully realize.

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Allegory

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Allegory is a figurative mode of representation conveying meaning other than the literal. Allegory communicates its message by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric, but an allegory does not have to be expressed in language: it may be addressed to the eye, and is often found in realistic painting, sculpture or some other form of mimetic, or representative art.

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Sonnet

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The sonnet is one of several forms of lyric poetry originating in Europe. The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning "little song" or "little sound". By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure.

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Conceit

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In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. By juxtaposing, usurping and manipulating images and ideas in surprising ways, a conceit invites the reader into a more sophisticated understanding of an object of comparison. Extended conceits in English are part of the poetic idiom of Mannerism, during the later sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

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Metaphysical Poetry

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The metaphysical poets were a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century, who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them, and whose work was characterized by inventiveness of metaphor (these involved comparisons being known as metaphysical conceits). These poets were not formally affiliated; most of them did not even know or read each other. Their poetry was influenced greatly by the changing times, new sciences and the new found debauched scene of the 17th century.

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Dramatic Monologue

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A dramatic monologue is a piece of spoken verse that offers great insight into the feelings of the speaker. Not to be confused with a soliloquy in a play (which the character speaking speaks to themselves), dramatic monologues suggest an auditor or auditors. They were favored by many poets in the Victorian period, in which a character in fiction or in history delivers a speech explaining his or her feelings, actions, or motives.

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Apology

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An expression of regret, roughly a dislike of one's own actions in the past.

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Closet Drama

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A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group. A related form, the "closet screenplay," developed during the 20th century.

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Emblem

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An emblem is a pictorial image, abstract or representational, that epitomizes a concept — e.g., a moral truth, or an allegory — or that represents a person, such as a king or saint.

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Paradox

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A paradox is a true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition. The term is also used for an apparent contradiction that actually expresses a non-dual truth (cf. kōan, Catuskoti). Typically, the statements in question do not really imply the contradiction, the puzzling result is not really a contradiction, or the premises themselves are not all really true or cannot all be true together. The word paradox is often used interchangeably with contradiction. It is also used to describe situations that are ironic.

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Oxymoron

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An oxymoron (plural oxymoron or oxymora) (from Greek ὀξύμωρον, "sharp dull") is a figure of speech that combines normally-contradictory terms. Oxymoron appear in a variety of contexts, including inadvertent errors such as extremely average and literary oxymoron crafted to reveal a paradox.

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Satire

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Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon.

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Comedy

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Comedy (from the Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōidía), as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy.

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Epic

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An epic (from the Ancient Greek adjective ἐπικός (epikos), from ἔπος (epos) "word, story, poem") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Milman Parry have argued that classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form.

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Epic Simile

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Epic simile, also called Homeric simile, an extended simile often running to several lines, used typically in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject and to serve as decoration.

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Tragicomedy

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Tragicomedy is fictional work that blends aspects of the genres of tragedy and comedy. In English literature, from Shakespeare's time to the nineteenth century, tragicomedy referred to a serious play with either a happy ending or enough jokes throughout the play to lighten the mood.

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John Winthrop "A Model of Christian Charity"

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"We shall be a city on the hill"
good example of an ideal Utopian society.

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Johnathan Edwards "Sinners in the hands of an angry god"

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"Their foot shall slide in due time"
"The god that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you..."there is a chance of redemption but not a very good one.

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William Wycherley The Country Wife

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see paper the china scene in reference to horners sex

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Mary Rowlandson A true history of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

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Captivity narrative. It was easier for me to see how righteous it was with god to cut off the threed of my life and cast me out of his presence for ever. yet the lord sill... when she was not observing sabith but god did not cut her off.

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Alexander Pope "The Rape of the Lock"

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mock epic, hair is a trophy,

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Alexander Pope "An essay on criticism"

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the critic is not good enough to be a critic.

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Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

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Man and his tools. the idea of greed and society creation.
Friday his servant

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Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels

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society and science.
laputa the little people in

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Samuel Johnson rasselas

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travel
inlac the poet that helps rasless

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Samuel Johnson A vanity of human wishes

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study guide

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J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur "Letters from an american farmer"

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Farmer as a uneducated writer. bees representing society
scribbling farmer his wife gave him the title

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Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of indipendence

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society as a individual but as a whole.

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Johnthan swift A modest Proposal

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Eating babies

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William Petty Political Arithmetic

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read book

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William Apess and indiams looking glass for the white man

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read book