Unit 5 Flashcards
A reaction against the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism. It insisted on the greater importance of 1.) individualism, 2.) imagination, 3.) nature, 4.) the distant
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 a national or ethnic hero
Epic
Drama that ends unhappily
Tragedy
Drama that ends happily
Comedy
A long, highly stylized lyric poem written in a complex stanza on a serious theme and often for a specific occasion
Ode
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
The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry
Meter
Identical sound in corresponding words or phrases
Rhyme
Unryhmed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
A short, narrative song
Ballad