Ch. 5 Flashcards
Corrective ridicule in literature, or a work that is designed to correct an evil by means of ridicule. Not to be confused with verbal irony or sarcasm. It’s purpose is to upbraid and to warn..
Satire
A retain against the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism. It insisted on the greater importance of individualism, imagination, nature, and the distant.
Romanticism
Drama that ends unhappily.
Tragedy
Drama that ends happily.
Comedy
A long, highly stylized lyric poem written in a complex stanza on a serious theme and often for a specific occasion.
Ode
A story with a literal and an implied level of meaning. The implied level of meaning may suggest actual persons, places, events and situations or a set of ideas.
Allegory