Literary Terms Midterm 1 Flashcards
meditation
- communication and representation
- takes place within a concrete medium (speech, writing, etc)
- opposed to immediacy (not imminently present)
- -> sublime = painful experience that’s been mediated
caesura
rhythmical pause in poetry line/sentence; usually at middle
palimpsest
manuscript/piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain (of the original writing)
metonymy
substitute the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant (eg. track for horse racing)
synecdoche
figure of speech; part represents the whole and vice versa (all hands on deck)
stanza
group of lines forming a meter
meter
pattern of beats (aka foot)
different dependent on which syllables are accented/not
gothic
style of writing characterized by fear, horror, death, gloom, romantic elements (nature , individuality, high emotions)
gothic
style of writing characterized by fear, horror, death, gloom, romantic elements (nature , individuality, high emotions)
neoclassicism
1700s-early 1800s
- romanticism was a reaction to neoclassicism
- proportion, symmetry, balance
- art and culture
- heroic couplets, iambic pentameter, emjambment, blank verse, end-stopped (1733-34)
personification
give humanlike traits to nonhuman things
trope
figure of language/speech; commonly recurring in lit and rhet devices, motifs, cliches
blazon
type of poetry; poems that praise a woman by singing of body parts and comparing w/ metaphors
association of ideas
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wit
elements in a literary work designed to make the audience laugh or feel amused, i.e., the term is used synonymously with humor.
broad emotional mood–but wit much more exclusively denotes intellectual originality, ingenuity, and mental acuity–especially in the sense of using paradoxes, making clever verbal expressions, and coining concise or deft phrases
judgment
as
heroic couplet
used in romantic poetry, iambic pentameter
