lit 90 Flashcards
Edmunds Spencers blazon
A petic technique in which physical attrutes of a perosn, usually a woman are decribed in elaborate detail, often usinf exagerated or idealized imagery, symbolizing virtues or moral qualities
Volta
The shift or a point of dramatic change in a poem
The Globe
Most popular theatre in London
Univeristy wits
A student theatre group that wrote plays in the style of the ancient greeks and romans. Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlow both belonged to this group.
Blank verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Revanage tragedy
A frm of tragedy made popular on the Elizabethan stage. Hesitation of the hero use of either real of pretended insanity, suicade, intigue, sensational use of horrors.
Hubris
Excessive pride or arrogance taht results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy
Hamartia
A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
Mataphysical conceit
A type of simile which establishes a striking parallel between startingly dissimilar things
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
Microcosm/macrocosm
This use of small0scale, specific actions or details to indicate the state of sommething on a larger scale, or vice versa.
Vers de societe
The french term (society verse) for a kind of liight verse which deals with the frivolous concern of the upper-class social life, usually in harmlessly playful veion of satire wih some technical elegance.
Sprezzatura
Studied carelessness epecially as a characteristic quality or style of art or literature.
Sons of Ben
A nickname for teh Cavalier poets of the 17th century. The name is derived from the name of on eof the Cavalier;s predecessors, ben Jonson.
