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Unit 5 Terms Flashcards

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A reverence for tradition as a source of authority or values in religion, morality, or art.

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Traditionalism

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The belief that human reason rather than revelation or authority is the source of all knowledge and the only valid basis for action.

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Rationalism

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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)

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Empiricism

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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.

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Satire

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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.

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Neoclassicism

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A reaction against the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism. It insisted on the greater importance of:

  1. Individualism
  2. Immigration
  3. Nature
  4. The distant
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Romanticism

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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

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Realism

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A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero

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Epic

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A short, highly compressed poem making a wise or humorous observation and ending with a witty twist

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Epigram

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A standard type or category of literature

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Genre

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Drama that ends unhappily

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Tragedy

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Drama that ends happily

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Comedy

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A witty and often licentious satirical comedy popular during the reign of Charles II

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Comedy of Manners

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Highly emotionalized and moralized comedy designed to arouse benevolent feelings

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Sentimental Comedy

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A specifically 18th century European form in which, the virtues of private life are exhibited

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Sentimental Drama

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An 18th century reaction against neoclassicism that anticipated romanticism.

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Sentimentalism

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A long, highly stylized lyric poem written on a complex stanza on a serious theme and often for a specific occasion

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Ode

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As pair of rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter

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Heroic Couplet

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A poetic foot consisting of two syllables, the second of which is accented-it repeats in a line of poetry 5 times

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Iambic Pentameter

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An invented prose narrative. Whether it is allegorical or not may serve the purpose of truth or virtue.

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Fiction

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The official poet of a nation or region.

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Poet Laureate

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Poetry written to enhance or make memorable a particular occasion, normally public and contemporary

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Occasionally Verse

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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

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Allegory

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Artificially selected and refined language once considered essential to poetic expression

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Poetic Diction

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The inclusion of minute, or even superfluous, details to create an allusion of actuality

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Verisimilitude

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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

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Burlesque

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A minor neoclassical poetic genre in which a poem, usually of high moral seriousness takes the form of an address to a friend

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Verse Epistle

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Instruction in literature

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Didacticism

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The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry

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Meter

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A variation of ballad stanza prevalent among hymns (the first and third lines usually also rhyme)

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Common Meter

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Identical sound in corresponding words or phrases

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Rhyme

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

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The giving of personal characteristics to something that is not a person

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Personification

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In poetic fiction: a roundabout, more elegant designation of something common

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Periphrases

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The addressing of some non-personal (or absent) object as if it were able to reply

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Apostrophe

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A short, narrative song

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Ballad

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Consists of four iambic lines, of which the first and third have four stresses and the second and four have three stresses and rhymes

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Ballad Stanza

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A nine line stanza popular among romantic poets rhyming ababbcbcc with eight iambic pentameter lines followed by a line of iambic hexameter

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Spenserian Stanza

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