Neoclassical Period Flashcards
Romanticism insisted on the greater importance of
1) individualism
2) imagination
3) nature
4) the distant
The belief that human reason rather than revelation or authority is the source of all knowledge and the only valid basis for action
Rationalism
The philosophical view that all knowledge originates in sensory experience
Empiricism
What’s johns Locke’s philosophy that human beings know only what they see, hear, feel, taste, or smell and what they can conclude from reflecting on their sensory experience?
Empiricism
Corrective ridicule in literature , or work that is designed to correct an evil by mean of ridicule.
Satire
What’s satires purpose
To upbraid and warn
A cultural attraction to the art and thought of Ancient Greece and Rome. beginning in 16th century Italy as a result of the sturdy of classical literature
Neoclassicism
A reaction against the cultural climate and the values of neoclassicism .
Romanticism
The attempt in fiction to create an illusion of actuality by the use of seemingly random detail or by the inclusion of the ordinarily or unpleasant in life
Realism
A long , stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of s national or ethnic hero .
Epic
A short, highly compressed poem making a wise or humorous observations and ending with witty twist
Epigram
A standard type of category of literature
Genre
Drama that ends unhappily
Tragedy
Drama that ends happily
Comedy
A witty and often licentious satirical comedy popular during the reign of Charles 2
Comedy of manners
Highly emotionalized and moralized comedy designed to arouse benevolent feelings
Sentimental comedy
A reverence for tradition as a source of authority or values in religion, morality, or art
Traditionalism
Highly emotionalized and moralized tragedy designed to arouse benevolent feelings
Sentimental drama
An 18th century reaction against neoclassicism that anticipated Romanism , in subject matter writers favored the quality picturesque or the pitiful, aiming to arouse humane feelings through scenes of contentment or pathos.
Sentimentalism
A long, highly stylized lyric poem written in a complex stanza on a serious theme and often for a specific occasion .
Ode
As pair of rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter .
Heroic couplet
A poetic foot consisting of two syllables, the second of which is accented - it repeats in a line of poetry 5 times
Iambic pentameter
An invented prose narrative. Whether it is allegorical or not may serve the purpose of truth and virtue.
Fiction
The official poet of a nation or region
Poet laureate
Poetry written to enhance or make memorable a particular occasion, normally public and contemporary.
Occasional verse
A story with a literal and an implied level of meaning. The implied level of meaning may suggest actual persons, places, events, and situations or a set of ideas
Allegory
Artificially selected and refined language once considered essential to poetic expression
Poetic diction
The inclusion of minute, or even superfluous , details to create an allusion if actuality
Verisimilitude
A special form of satire that mocks its subject by incongruous imitation either of its style or content or by incongruous representation in terms of high seriousness
Burlesque
A minor neoclassical poetic genre in which a poem, usually of high moral seriousness takes the form of an address to a friend
Verse epistle
Instruction in literature
Didacticism
The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry.
Meter
A variation of ballad stanza prevalent among hymns.
Common meter
Identical sound in corresponding words or phrases
Rhyme
In poetic diction: a roundabout, more elegant designation of smoke thing common
Periphrases
How did rationalism undermine the religious faith of England
Pages 370, 372-374
A nine line stanza popular among romantic poets rhyming (ababbcbcc) with eight iambic pentameter lines followed by a line of iambic hexameter
Spenserian stanza
Consists of four iambic lines, of which the first and third have four stresses and the second and fourth have three stresses and rhymes
Ballad stanza
A short, narrative song
Ballad
The addressing of some non- personal or absent object as if it were able to reply.
Apostrophe
The giving of personal characteristics to something that is not person
Personification
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
The neoclassical period of England’s history was difficult for the common man because :
- England was in transitions from an agricultural to an industry society
England’s domination of the dead helped advanced the industry revolution by crowding out of the ;
- French , Dutch, Spanish from valuable markets and species of raw materials
The deists rejected many beliefs of scripture :
- the deity of Christ
- Christ death and the bodily resurrection
- miracles of scriptures
The influence of wesleyanism taught to other worldly values and compassion for the downtrodden and brought an ;
Evangelical conscience to England .
This dulled the ill effects of
The industrial revolution
John Dryden has been called what and why
- First of the moderns
- because he foresaw a new age of reasonableness and scientific progress
What stunned London because of it’s political impact
Absalom and achitophel
In the shortest way with dissenters ; Dofoe used irony to show that ;
Absurdity of Tory punishments for nonconformity by recommending used harsh punishments wen he really believed in not using them
What was Defoes last contribution to the novel
- journalistic realism
In “Rebindon Crusoe” what did he most miss while being on the Island
Conversation
How did Crusoe keep his sanity while on the island
- he resigned himself to the Will of God
Dofoe wrote what was considered the first true novel in
- English
“The Tatler” what did I become
- a periodical of commentary
The essays found in the “the Tatler “ and the “spectator are like what
- present day editorials
In “whites chocolate house “ Addison and Steele point out of the superiority of reason over emotion by
- exaggerating the young mans preoccupation with the young lady
In spectator no 34 Steele let’s the reader know that he has a great respect for
- traditional religion and clergy
Jonathan swift series of pamphlets denouncing the exploitation I Ireland by parliament suggested :
- the rejection of new copper coinage of Ireland
- the boycott of English goods
- ironic solution to over population and starvation in Ireland
“A modest proposal” the purpose was to
Get parliaments attention concerning the needs for relieving the ills of the Irish
The purpose of Guilvers travels was to
- vex the world rather than entertain it
Swift showed the absurdity of England’s conflicts by
Satirizing a very trivial issues and having the breaking of an egg results in extreme consequences
“Essay on man” It seeks to answer the question
What does it set readers on
Why does Evil exists ?
- a path to modern secular humanism.
“essay on criticism “ pope illustrated the importance of his belief that he sound must seem an echo to the sense because;
- he writes a series of lines , that sound like good and bad writing techniques but he is humorously , espousing and deriding
He eighteenth century became a great age of what and why
Hymnody
Because hymns provided a response to the neoclassical emphasis on rational control and the neoclassical qualities important to good writing were important to writing a good hymn
Isaacs great contributions to gym writing influenced
- the growth of hymnody
What is the theme of “Heavenly joy on earth”
Heavenly joy should began before the christian reaches heaven
“Against idieness and mischief” what is used as an example in illustrating the truth taught
Bee
The popularity of “the seasons “ indicated
- new demand for poems of natural descriptions and sentimental reflection
The poem “Winter” “thither the household feathery people crowd “ is an example of
periphrasis
Who was the Calvinist used by God as a catalyst for the great awakening
George Witfield
Johns Wesley’s work as an author was the
- outgrowth of the kings wood
- Bristol
Boarding school
Charles Wesley wrote the following hymns
- and it can be that I should gain
- Jesus lover of my soul
- soldiers of Christ arise
- behold the man
- the bealific sight
In the journal entry for feb 3, 1770 Wesley attributes rousseaus shortcomings to his disdain for the
Bible
Behold the man , is unique in English hymnody because
Dramatic allegorical narrative quality
Charles Wesley is credited with writing how many hymns
9,000
The Wesley’s and whitefiled sharply disagree about the
Calvinistic doctrine of limited atonement
According to john W journal , he ha grasp of
Greek and enjoyed secular and sacred reading
Johnson was best known for a
Dictionary of the english language
His method of collecting the words that would be part of the dictionary was that he read
Prominent English writers from sir Philip until his time. He underlined the words to be included and sent them to the transcribers to be transcribed and filed
In rambler 62 who was the least tolerable of the tenants
The author
The truth in Johnson’s statement is that
the insight and instruction can be gained from the observation of those around you since hums. Characteristics are universal
According to Johnson, Dryden. Lacked popes characteristics of
Diligence
As the result of traveling with Johnson wrote the book
“Tour to the Hebrides “
I was difficult fr Boswell to meet Johnson because
Johnson lifestyle was irregular
Johnson conversational abilities overshadow
Short comings
At the end of his life Johnson’s basis for salvation was
Christ death
He purpose of young man on a grand tour was to
Broaden his view point by making it more cosmopolitan
Boswell was a what who sought I meet many famous people
Dauntless hero
Elegy written in a county churchyard has neoclassical elements :
It’s subject
Man
It’s heavy moralizations
It’s artificial poetic diction
Elegy written in a country churchyard had romantic elements ;
It’s descriptions of rural landscape
It’s ideozaion of humble life
It’s use of natural descriptions to generate a mood
It’s solitary meditation
“She stoops to conquer “ combine
Early comedy and the morality of the current sentimental comedy
The desert village uses
Heroic couplets
The cottages were given opportunities after enclosure came to their land
- to emigrate to American
- become a factory hand and to stay in he village as a laborer
“Waking with God” is cowpeas prayer to God
Resorted fellowship
Cowper wrote the hymn “
there is a fountain filled with blood”
Cowper abandoned himself in his times of
Spiritual distress
Robert can be best classified as a
Nationalists poet
Robert was also known as the
Heaven taught plowman
Apostrophe is the poetic device used in both
“To a mouse “ “to a louse”
In a “ To a mouse “ the speaker stay that the mouse is more fortunate than man becUse
The mouse has to deal with the present only where’s man has to deal with the past , the present and the Future
