Literary Terms 3 Flashcards
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Pageant
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- Big, enclosed rectangular box on wheels with curtains or doors that opened on one side
- Used as traveling stage that moved among village squares
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Verisimilitude
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Sense of reality in work of literature
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Folk Ballad
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- Anonymous narrative verses intended to be sung and passed by oral tradition
- Employ simple language and straightforward narrative style, rely heavily on dialogue and move quickly from scene to scene
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Ballad stanza
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Four lines rhyming abcb with four accented syllables within first and third lines and three in second and fourth lines
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Satire
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Literary mode that employs wit and humor to attack human foibles of institutions to reform them
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Morality play
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- Form of medieval drama which features symbolic abstractions of human qualities as characters
- Stresses struggle between evil and Christian virtue
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Exemplum
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Tale, often inserted in a sermon, illustrating moral truth
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Frame Story
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- Story that included telling of a story within a story
- Frame is outer story
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Parody
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- Humorous imitation of another (usually serious) work
- Ridicules or criticizes work by imitation or exaggerating plot, character, style, or theme
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Medieval Romance
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- Stories of love and chivalric adventure, either in prose or verse
- Popular during later Middle Ages
- Elements include royal characters, conflict of good and evil, fantasy settings, romance, monsters etc
