45C Vocab Flashcards
Common Meter
stanzas have four lines containing eight and six syllables alternately rhyming abcb or abab. (Emily Dickinson uses this)
Dactyl
a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables.
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Free Verse
the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
Empiricism
literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary.
Naturalism
Dissociation of Sensibility
first used by T. S. Eliot in his essay “The Metaphysical Poets”. It refers to the way in which intellectual thought was separated from the experience of feeling in seventeenth century poetry
the artistic and literary technique of representing or evoking a particular emotion by means of symbols that objectify that emotion and are associated with it.
Objective correlative
Post-Impressionism
the depiction (as in literature) of scene, emotion, or character by details intended to achieve a vividness or effectiveness more by evoking subjective and sensory impressions than by recreating an objective reality
a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.
Chiasmus
Pyramidal Structure
Story Arc:
Intro/Inciting Moment
Rising Action
Apex
Falling Action
Resolution
a poetic meter approximating to speech, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by a varying number of unstressed ones (Gerald Manley Hopkins uses this)
Sprung Rhythm
a variety of movements and trends in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw a renewed interest in aspects of Celtic culture. Artists and writers drew on the traditions of Gaelic literature, Welsh-language literature, and so-called ‘Celtic art’—what historians call Insular art
The Celtic Revival
a form of poetry consisting of stanzas of eight lines of ten or eleven syllables, rhyming abababcc
Ottava Rima
Polysyndeton
stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect
Chiasmus
a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.
ombat emotional manipulation in the theater, replacing it with an entertaining or surprising jolt. For instance, rather than investing in or “becoming” their characters, they might emotionally step away and demonstrate them with cool, witty, and skillful self-critique. The director could “break the fourth wall” and expose the technology of the theater to the audience in amusing ways. Or a technique known as the social gest could be used to expose unjust social power relationships so the audience sees these relationships in a new way.
Estrangement/defamiliarization
Taking discourse that is common to the English literary canon, and rewriting it in a different way to shift the narrative on that particular aspect of the discourse. (e.g. Achebe with Thing Fall Apart)
Canonical Counter-discourse
a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
Iamb
Caesura
any interruption or break, a pause in the middle of the line
first used by T. S. Eliot in his essay “The Metaphysical Poets”. It refers to the way in which intellectual thought was separated from the experience of feeling in seventeenth century poetry
Dissociation of Sensibility
Objective correlative
the artistic and literary technique of representing or evoking a particular emotion by means of symbols that objectify that emotion and are associated with it.
Theatre of the Absurd
drama using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world. Major exponents include Samuel Beckett
Estrangement/defamiliarization
ombat emotional manipulation in the theater, replacing it with an entertaining or surprising jolt. For instance, rather than investing in or “becoming” their characters, they might emotionally step away and demonstrate them with cool, witty, and skillful self-critique. The director could “break the fourth wall” and expose the technology of the theater to the audience in amusing ways. Or a technique known as the social gest could be used to expose unjust social power relationships so the audience sees these relationships in a new way.
a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables.
Dactyl
Empiricism
the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
any interruption or break, a pause in the middle of the line
Caesura
the design or intention of the author is neither available nor desirable as a standard for judging the success of a work of literary art
Intentional Fallacy
Postmodernism
characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era.
Naturalism
rejection of Romanticism, and distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary.
characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era.
Postmodernism
The Celtic Revival
a variety of movements and trends in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw a renewed interest in aspects of Celtic culture. Artists and writers drew on the traditions of Gaelic literature, Welsh-language literature, and so-called ‘Celtic art’—what historians call Insular art
Stream Of Consciousness
a literary style in which a character’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf
Free Verse
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
the most individually distinctive being in the universe, recognizes the inscape of other beings–the apprehension of an object in an intense thrust of energy toward it that enables one to realize specific distinctiveness.
Instress
Ottava Rima
a form of poetry consisting of stanzas of eight lines of ten or eleven syllables, rhyming abababcc
a literary style in which a character’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf
Stream Of Consciousness
intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts. This meant that art from this particular movement focused more on being beautiful rather than having a deeper meaning — “art for art’s sake”
Aestheticism
a metrical pattern for hymns in which the stanzas have four lines containing eight and six syllables alternately rhyming abcb or abab. (Emily Dickinson uses this)
Common Meter
Shakespearean Sonnet
The variation of the sonnet form that Shakespeare used—comprised of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg—is called the English or Shakespearean sonnet form, although others had used it before him. This different sonnet structure allows for more space to be devoted to the buildup of a subject or problem than the Italian/Petrarchan form, and is followed by just two lines to conclude or resolve the poem in a rhyming couplet.
Sprung Rhythm
a poetic meter approximating to speech, each foot having one stressed syllable followed by a varying number of unstressed ones (Gerald Manley Hopkins uses this)
Aestheticism
intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts. This meant that art from this particular movement focused more on being beautiful rather than having a deeper meaning — “art for art’s sake”
The variation of the sonnet form that Shakespeare used—comprised of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg—is called the English or Shakespearean sonnet form, although others had used it before him. This different sonnet structure allows for more space to be devoted to the buildup of a subject or problem than the Italian/Petrarchan form, and is followed by just two lines to conclude or resolve the poem in a rhyming couplet.
Shakespearean Sonnet
Italian Sonnet
a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns (such as cde cde or cdc dcd) — called also Petrarchan sonnet.
Everything in the universe is characterized by this– it is the distinctive design that constitutes individual identity. It is not a static identity, but a dynamic one.
Inscape
Story Arc:
Intro/Inciting Moment
Rising Action
Apex
Falling Action
Resolution
Pyramidal Structure
language is turned back against itself through forms of linguistic negativism
literature of the unword
drama using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world. Major exponents include Samuel Beckett
Theatre of the Absurd
Iamb
a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
the depiction (as in literature) of scene, emotion, or character by details intended to achieve a vividness or effectiveness more by evoking subjective and sensory impressions than by recreating an objective reality
Post-Impressionism
Intentional Fallacy
the design or intention of the author is neither available nor desirable as a standard for judging the success of a work of literary art
Instress
the most individually distinctive being in the universe, recognizes the inscape of other beings–the apprehension of an object in an intense thrust of energy toward it that enables one to realize specific distinctiveness.
Inscape
Everything in the universe is characterized by this– it is the distinctive design that constitutes individual identity. It is not a static identity, but a dynamic one.
a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns (such as cde cde or cdc dcd) — called also Petrarchan sonnet.
Italian Sonnet
literature of the unword
language is turned back against itself through forms of linguistic negativism
Canonical Counter-discourse
Taking discourse that is common to the English literary canon, and rewriting it in a different way to shift the narrative on that particular aspect of the discourse. (e.g. Achebe with Thing Fall Apart)
stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect
Polysyndeton
