mid term Flashcards

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Alliterative Verse

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poems from western or northern England and Scotland. each line within a stanza contains alliteration of both consonants and vowels

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what text uses allertitave verse

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Because it drawn attention to the words and created a tone and mood that is characteristic to the original story

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Chivalric Code

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a moral system that stated all knights should protect others who cannot protect themselves, such as widows, children and alders

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what text uses chivalric code

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. its used to show is loyalty, courage to his king and his other knights and how he always tries to uphold his values

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blank verse

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a form of prosody that predated shake sphere. unrhymed, metered lines using iambic pentameter, used to convey themes and ideas

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what text uses blank verse

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Twelfth Night.by common or working class characters to convey plot points or humor.

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Neo- Platonist

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view of human being which divided the self into three parts (rational, emotional and appetitive)

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what text uses Neoplatonist

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Twelfth night. seen by different characters and in conflict, vying for supremacy to emphasize the different points of views r=from all the different classes in this story

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Great Chain of Being

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ranks all living and non-living things according to how they use these basic qualities of reason, emotion and appetite

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what text uses Great Chain of being

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Twelfth Night. Hows the hierarchy and different classes that happen to be in his real time, portrayed into this story.

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satire

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a work that critiques its society or some aspect of it through irony, parody, exaggeration or humor

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what text uses satire

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modest proposal. forces readers to confront the views and they may hold and see that of the inherent lesser value of other humans, those of a different nationally, class or religion, also to be hopeful

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Petrarchan sonnet

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14 lines, the octave (8 lines) and sestet (6). ABBAABBA, CDCD or CDECDE. octave is to introduce a problem, sestet is to solve. Volta rhetorical shift to mark the tone change.

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what text uses the Petrarchan sonnet

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Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802. the octave praises the city for its openness and beauty in the morning before city wakes and then it says smokeless which then switches to sestet to compare this moment to natural scenes.

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allegory

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an extended, abstract, and hidden meaning represented through the use of concrete images and characters

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what text uses allegory

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goblin market. feminism with the goblin as men, religion, economic, biographical

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bildungsroman

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novel of formation, education, culture or coming of age story

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what text uses bildungsroman

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Robinson Crusoe. represents psychological development in a sophisticated way. difference between younger and older him, story of young being told by old, said how he discovered himself. didactic, teach reader