Chapter 3B Terms Flashcards
Instruction in literature. Writers and critics believe imaginative literature should have two purposes; to delight and to teach?
Didacticism
What is a highly artificial literary mode which centers on shelters and idealizes rural settings?
Pastoralism
A lyric poem of fourteen iambic-pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to one of two patterns?
Sonnet
The first eight lines, called the octave, rhyme abbabba. The last six lines called, the setter may use any combination of two or three new rhymes. For example, cdcdcd, cdecde, cdece. (Introduced in England by Sir Thomas Wyatt).
Petrarchan or Italian Sonnet
Consists of three quatrains and closing couplet and rhymes ababcdcdefefg (improvised by the Earl of Surrey and refined by Shakespeare).
Shakespearean or English Sonnet
The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry.
Meter
Identical sound in corresponding words or phrases.
Rhyme
A four-line stanza, one of the most common stanza forms in English poetry.
Quatrain
A seeming contradiction. (Ex “death thou shalt die”)
Paradox
The addressing of some nonpersonal (or absent) object as if it were able to reply (“ O, Death, where is thy sting”).
Apostrophe
Broadly, the expression of one thing in terms of another. In stricter usage, it is the stated or implied equivalence of two things. (“I am the bread of life”)
Metaphor
A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature. A work may have many themes. It’s major theme is its main point, similar to the thesis of an essay. It may explicit (stated outright ) or implicit (it’s concept must be inferred).
Theme
A striking and often elaborate comparison carried out in considerable detail.
Conceit
U rhymed iambic-pentameter
Blank verse
A speech addressed to an audience by an actor alone on stage.
Soliloquy
