Unit 5 Terms Flashcards
A reverence for tradition as a source of authority or values in religion, morality, or art.
Traditionalism
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 philosophicalview that all knowledge originates in sensory experience.(John Locke’s philosophy that human beings know only what they see, hear, taste, or smell and what they can conclude from reflecting on their sensory experience)
Empiricism
Corrective ridicule in literature, or a work that is designed to connect an evil by means of ridicule. Not to be confused with verbal irony or sarcasm. Satire’s purpose is to upbraid and to warn.
Satire
A cultural attraction to the art and thought of ancient Greece and Rome. Beginning in sixteenth-centuryItaly as a result of the study of classical literature.
Neoclassicism
A reaction against the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism. It insisted on the greater importance of:
- Individualism
- Immigration
- Nature
- 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 ordinary or unpleasant in life
Realism
A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero
Epic
A short, highly compressed poem making a wise or humorous observation and ending with a witty twist
Epigram
A standard type or 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 II
Comedy of Manners
Highly emotionalized and moralized comedy designed to arouse benevolent feelings
Sentimental Comedy
A specifically 18th century European form in which, the virtues of private life are exhibited
Sentimental Drama
An 18th century reaction against neoclassicism that anticipated romanticism.
Sentimentalism
A long, highly stylized lyric poem written on 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 or 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
Occasionally Verse
A stay with a literal and an implied level of meaning. The applied 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 of 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 term 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 (the first and third lines usually also rhyme)
Common Meter
Identical sound in corresponding words or phrases
Rhyme
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
The giving of personal characteristics to something that is not a person
Personification
In poetic fiction: a roundabout, more elegant designation of something common
Periphrases
The addressing of some non-personal (or absent) object as if it were able to reply
Apostrophe
A short, narrative song
Ballad
Consists of four iambic lines, of which the first and third have four stresses and the second and four have three stresses and rhymes
Ballad Stanza
A nine line stanza popular among romantic poets rhyming ababbcbcc with eight iambic pentameter lines followed by a line of iambic hexameter
Spenserian Stanza
