25 Pastoral Terma

Question 0

What is Arcadia?

Answer 0

It is the mountain region found in the Peloponnese, Greece, a place depicted in classical literature as an ideal and rural haven populated by shepherds and shepherdesses tending their flocks and being free from the stresses and strains of real life

Question 1

What does anti-pastoral mean?

Answer 1

It is the opposite of pastoral, in terms or genre. Antipastoral texts are designed to subvert and undermine he ideas and illusions upon which the pastoral genre is founded.

Question 2

What does Bucolic mean?

Answer 2

It is another term for pastoral, from the Greek word for a herdsmen.

Question 3

Explain what is meant by court/courtly.

Answer 3

Is is befitting a royal court, hence, the opposite of country/rustic

Question 4

What does Doric mean?

Answer 4

Is is another term for rustic. Often hard in reference to rough ritual manner or dialect as opposed to the sophisticated and urbane. The word comes from Doris, a region in Greece.

Question 5

What is an ecologue?

Answer 5

A short poem, usually taking the form of a dialogue between two pastors characters

Question 6

What is elegiac?

Answer 6

Elegiac refers to the characteristics of an elegy

Question 7

What is an elegy?

Answer 7

A poem of mourning, similar to a lament, for a deceased individual or tragic event. Often pastoral elegies lament the death of a shepherd, or, in later versions, the death of the pastoral idyll itself.

Question 8

What is a georgic?

Answer 8

Is is a poem about rural life which instructs the reader in agricultural matters.

Question 9

What is meant by the Golden Age?

Answer 9

It is a time of idyll, often containing qualities of prestige, wealth and power.

Question 10

What is meant when something is idealised?

Answer 10

It is someone or something that is exalted to a state of perfection

Question 11

What does idyll mean?

Answer 11

It is a noun, used to describe a place or state of tranquility of happiness. An idyll presents a position vision, and on that is attainable

Question 12

What does idyllic mean?

Answer 12

Is is an adjective, used to describe something with the qualities of an idyll.

Question 13

What does lament mean?

Answer 13

Lament is an expression of great or sorrow, often sung, for the loss of a person state or thing.

Question 14

What does lyric mean?

Answer 14

It mans song-like , melodic, and often expressing intense feeling. A poem is lyrical if it flows

Question 15

What is a peasant?

Answer 15

In pastoral literature, a country-dweller, or a rustic

Question 16

What does picaresque mean?

Answer 16

Picaresque is a type of pastoral narrative, typically consisting of a journey made by a disreputable servant and his master. During the course of the journey, a series of unfortunate events take place.

Question 17

What is meant by provincial?

Answer 17

It is another term for rustic. ( within the pastoral genre)

Question 18

What is meant when something is romanticised ?

Answer 18

A romanticised text is one that is designed to capture and evoke intense emotions

Question 19

What is meant by rural?

Answer 19

Rural is pertaining to the countryside

Question 20

What is meant by rustic?

Answer 20

As a noun, it means countryside-dweller, who is unsophisticated. As an adjective, it means something that is characteristic of rural life.

Question 21

What does sentimental mean?

Answer 21

That which prioritises feelings and emotions over reason and rational.

Question 22

What is a swain?

Answer 22

A man who is a lover of a young women’s, or, more generally, a country lad.

Question 23

What is mean by urban?

Answer 23

Urban is pertaining to the city, hence the opposite of rural