English final Flashcards
Renaissance
“rebirth,” period between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment hallmarked by a taste for the harmonious in the arts and drew on earlier classical artists to achieve and expand this.
Humanism
Intellectual and cultural secular movement
Sonnet
A 14-line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, and frequently on the subject of love. Two main types: English/Shakespearean and Italian/Petrarchan.
Iambic pentameter
The style in which Shakespeare wrote their play; including Hamlet
Novel
A fictional prose narrative of considerable length, flexible in form (B&G). Begins, according to some, with Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605).
Utopian literature
A type of literature in which an ideal society is depicted.
Essay
A short piece of highly personal and exploratory writing; usually prose and on one focused theme or subject.
Ethnography
Works of nonfiction that are both outward-looking and impartial
blank verse
Unrhymed Iambic contemner
dr. faustus
Soliloquy
When a character is speaking their thoughts outload
“to be or not to be” Hamlet
Literary canon
Body of work that has been deemed literature
religious writing, Shakespeare
Conventions of the Shakespeare tragedy:
- Play ends in death of principle
- The fall of a prince
- Acting as a “central concern”
- Multiple plots not as common as in comedies.
elements of figurative language
Simile
Imagery
Analogy
Repetition
Assonance
Alliteration
Connection between Greek and Renaissance
Both talk about the importance of family and community
The importance of religion and how you play out your life
Define hallmarks of the Elizabethan era
- audience where big and young
- fast-paced dialogue and action
- verbal theater (all about the speech and the movement of the body)
- staged in a public playhouse;
