keywords/terms

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

repetition of sound, two or more neighbouring words

Question 2

cesura

Answer 2

metrical pause in verse, one phrase ends, another begins

Question 3

kenning

Answer 3

figurative phrase insetead of noun “whale-path”

Question 4

epithet

Answer 4

byname, in place of name, descriptive “alfred the great”

Question 5

epic

Answer 5

type of narrattive poem, telss story in 3rd pov, has typical conventions like rhyme & meter

Question 6

chivalry

Answer 6

medieval knightly system with religious moral & social code

Question 7

histography

Answer 7

history of history, study of history & methodology of history as a dicipline

Question 8

petrarchan sonnet

Answer 8

italian sonnet, 14 lines, 2 sections: octave (ABBAABBA) & sestet (CDCDCD/CDECDE) John Milton, John Donne

Question 9

english sonnet

Answer 9

Shakespearean/ elizabethian), 14 lines, 1 stanza w. 3 quatrians, concluding couplet (ABABCDCDEFEFGG), shakespeare & wyatt

Question 10

sacred & profound love

Answer 10

difference between physical love & something deeper/higher

Question 11

carpe diem

Answer 11

horace, one should enjoy life while one can, cavalier poets/ robert herrice “ to the virgins…”

Question 12

conceit

Answer 12

extended metahphor where writer sets up & embellishes comparison between 2 things

Question 13

didactisim

Answer 13

teach & instruct, moral, ethical & religious principles, alexander pope & samuel johnson John bunyan: the pilgrims progress

Question 14

rationalism

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part of broader intellectual movement, reason primary sourch of knowledge, logical argumentation, clarity, intellectual exploration over emotional or sensational content. influenced philosphy, science, politics

Question 15

satire

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humour, irony, exaggaration to criticize/ expose follies/vices of society/people/communities. jonathan swift - gullivers travels & alexander pope - the dunciad

Question 16

heroic couplet

Answer 16

traditional form of english poetry. used in epic & narrative poetry, pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. alexander pope - essay on man, neat balanced lines reinforces rationality

Question 17

decorum

Answer 17

refers to appropriateness of style to subject matter. based on classical ideas that different genres & styles of poetry suited to different subjects. strict adherence meant writer chose style, vocab etc to match subject addressed§

Question 18

personification

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inanimate object/ people, endowed with human triats, ambigious bring abstract & concepts to life, ex. death can speak.

Question 19

idealism

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philosphical & artistic movement, reaction against enlightenments emphasis on reason prioritizes emotion, individuality & nature over rational thought,

Question 20

subjectivity

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impulse o look for ruth inwardly. rosseau, wordsworth & keats. importance of individual freedom with emphasis on subjective mind & culture

Question 21

imagination

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means of deep insight and sympathy, power to conceive & express images removed from normal objective reality, way of seeing world through a different lens

Question 22

nature

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poetry of meditation & of poetical imagination. significance of nature in understanding human behaviour from many perspectives

Question 23

the sublime

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meeting of the subjective, internal(emotional) & the objective - external (natural world): allow emotions to overwhelm rationality

Question 24

scepticism

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attitude/doubt/disposition to incredulity, either in general or toward particular thing

Question 25

dramatic monologue

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1st person poetic speech, silent audience, complex poetic chiarocsuro - speech translucent

Question 26

nostalgia

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affected, sentimental, falsify past through strategies of forgetting rather than recollecting. describe something it is not.

Question 27

nihilism

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belief that all values are baseless & that nothing can be known or communicated. extreme pessiminsm, radical skepticism - condemns existence

Question 28

cynicism

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dark attitude toward world & humanbiengs, believes humans motivated by greed & self-interest

Question 29

symbolism

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use of any person/object/situation to represent an idea of some sort

Question 30

free verse

Answer 30

open form of poetry, arose from french vers libre form, not consistent in metre/thyme etc

Question 31

fragmentation

Answer 31

disingrate, which writers did to themes & narratives.

Question 32

anticlimax

Answer 32

moment of tension dramatically undercut instead off with payoff