45C Vocab

Question 1

Common Meter

Answer 1

stanzas have four lines containing eight and six syllables alternately rhyming abcb or abab. (Emily Dickinson uses this)

Question 2

Dactyl

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Answer 3

Free Verse

Question 4

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.

Answer 4

Empiricism

Question 5

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.

Answer 5

Naturalism

Question 6

Dissociation of Sensibility

Answer 6

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

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Objective correlative

Question 8

Post-Impressionism

Answer 8

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

Question 9

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.’.

Answer 9

Chiasmus

Question 10

Pyramidal Structure

Answer 10

Story Arc:

Intro/Inciting Moment

Rising Action

Apex

Falling Action

Resolution

Question 11

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)

Answer 11

Sprung Rhythm

Question 12

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

Answer 12

The Celtic Revival

Question 13

a form of poetry consisting of stanzas of eight lines of ten or eleven syllables, rhyming abababcc

Answer 13

Ottava Rima

Question 14

Polysyndeton

Answer 14

stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect

Question 15

Chiasmus

Answer 15

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.’.

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Estrangement/defamiliarization

Question 17

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)

Answer 17

Canonical Counter-discourse

Question 18

a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.

Answer 18

Iamb

Question 19

Caesura

Answer 19

any interruption or break, a pause in the middle of the line

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Dissociation of Sensibility

Question 21

Objective correlative

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

Theatre of the Absurd

Answer 22

drama using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world. Major exponents include Samuel Beckett

Question 23

Estrangement/defamiliarization

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

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.

Answer 24

Dactyl

Question 25

Empiricism

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

any interruption or break, a pause in the middle of the line

Answer 26

Caesura

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Intentional Fallacy

Question 28

Postmodernism

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

Naturalism

Answer 29

rejection of Romanticism, and distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary.

Question 30

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.

Answer 30

Postmodernism

Question 31

The Celtic Revival

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Stream Of Consciousness

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Free Verse

Answer 33

poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Question 34

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.

Answer 34

Instress

Question 35

Ottava Rima

Answer 35

a form of poetry consisting of stanzas of eight lines of ten or eleven syllables, rhyming abababcc

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Stream Of Consciousness

Question 37

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”

Answer 37

Aestheticism

Question 38

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)

Answer 38

Common Meter

Question 39

Shakespearean Sonnet

Answer 39

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.

Question 40

Sprung Rhythm

Answer 40

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)

Question 41

Aestheticism

Answer 41

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”

Question 42

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.

Answer 42

Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 43

Italian Sonnet

Answer 43

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.

Question 44

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.

Answer 44

Inscape

Question 45

Story Arc:

Intro/Inciting Moment

Rising Action

Apex

Falling Action

Resolution

Answer 45

Pyramidal Structure

Question 46

language is turned back against itself through forms of linguistic negativism

Answer 46

literature of the unword

Question 47

drama using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world. Major exponents include Samuel Beckett

Answer 47

Theatre of the Absurd

Question 48

Iamb

Answer 48

a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Post-Impressionism

Question 50

Intentional Fallacy

Answer 50

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

Question 51

Instress

Answer 51

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.

Question 52

Inscape

Answer 52

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.

Question 53

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.

Answer 53

Italian Sonnet

Question 54

literature of the unword

Answer 54

language is turned back against itself through forms of linguistic negativism

Question 55

Canonical Counter-discourse

Answer 55

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)

Question 56

stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect

Answer 56

Polysyndeton