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english Flashcards

1
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  • Good defeats evil
  • Wergild–restitution for murder or
    expect revenge from victim’s relatives
A

Anglo-Saxon Ideals and
Codes of Conduct

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Long narrative poem that recounts the
adventures of a hero.

  • Elevated language
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Epic Poem

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3
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Chant-like effect of the four-beat line

  • Alliteration (“Then the grim man in
    green gathers his strength”)
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Elements of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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4
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meaning of Thane?
a. a warrior
b.the king
c. a prince

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a. a warrior

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5
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The large hall where the lord and his warriors
slept, ate, held ceremonies, etc.

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mead-hall

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6
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Fate. Destiny. This idea crops up a lot
in the poem, while at the same time
there are Christian references to God’s
will.
a. bible
b. free poem
c. wyrd

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c. wyrd

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7
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Epic hero
* Geat (from southern Sweden)
* Nephew of Higlac (King at
story’s start)

A

Beowulf

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8
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  • Danish king
  • Builds Herot (banquet hall) for
    men
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Hrothgar

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9
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  • Referred to as demon and
    fiend
  • Haunts the moors (swampy
    land)
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Grendel

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10
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  • Referred to as she-wolf
  • Lives under a lake

a. grendell
b.hrothgar
c. grendell’s mother

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c grendell’s mother

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11
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  • Lives in Beowulf’s kingdom
  • Wakes up when thief steals
    cup
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Fire Dragon

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TYPES OF LYRIC POETRY

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  • Sonnet
  • Ode
  • Ballad
  • Elegy
  • Villanelle
  • Idyll
  • Free Verse
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13
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Named after an ancient Greek poet, Pindar.
Choral poems that were meant to be sung at public events.

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Pindar Ode

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Named after Latin poet, Horace.
Informal, meditative, and intimate
Dwelled upon interesting subject matters that were simple and were pleasing to the senses.

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horatian ode

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Without any formal rhyme scheme
Poet has great freedom and flexibility to try any types of concepts and moods.

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Irregular Ode

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  • Traditionally divided into three (3) sections or stanzas.
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Structure of Ode

17
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Usually consists of two or more lines repeated as a unit.
In modern usage, the term can refer to any group of verses that form a distinct unit within a poem.

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strophe

18
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Structured the same way as the strophe.
But typically offers a thematic counterbalance.

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Antistrophe

19
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Has a distinct meter and length from the strophe and antistrophe
Serves to summarize or conclude the ideas of the ode.

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epode

20
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A type of poetry or verse which was basically used in dance songs in ancient France.

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Ballad

20
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Recurrence of certain lines at regular intervals
Can also be in interrogative form, with appropriate answers to every question asked.

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structure of ballad

21
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Begins with an expression of grief and an invocation to the Muse (inspirational goddess of literature) to aid the poet in expressing his suffering.

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pastoral elegy

22
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  • Derived from the Greek work elegus, which means a song of bereavement sung along with a flute.
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elegy

23
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From Italian word “villano” which means peasant
Like the Italian and Spanish dance-songs, “villanella” and “villancico”, spoke of simple, often pastoral or rustic themes.

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VILLANELLE

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Made up of five tercets (stanzas of three lines) followed by a quatrain, with two repeating rhymes and two refrains and couplet at the end of the quatrain

A

structure of villanelle

25
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From Greek eidyllion which means “little picture”
A short poem of a pastoral or rural character in which something of the element of landscape is depicted or suggested.

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idyll

26
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A very structured type of poetry in which the author attempts to show two related but differing things to the reader in order to communicate something about them.

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sonnet

27
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Distinguished by its division into the octave and sestet:
The octave rhyming abbaabba
The sestet rhyming cdecde, cdcdcd, or cdedce

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Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan)

28
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Also called vers libre in French
Free from limitations of regular meter or rhyme, and does not rhyme with fixed forms

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FREE VERSE POEMS

29
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The Spenserian sonnet, invented by Edmund Spenser, complicates the Shakespearean form, linking rhymes among the quatrains:
* Abab bcbc cdcd ee

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Spenserian

30
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Three quatrains (stanzas of four lines each)
Each with a rhyme scheme of its own, usually rhyming alternating lines
And a rhymed concluding couplet
The typical rhyme scheme is
*Abab cdcd efef gg

A

English Sonnet (Shakesperean)

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