Unit 5 Terms Flashcards
A reverence for tradition as a source of authority or values in religion, morality, or art.
Traditionalism
The philosophical view that all knowledge originates in sensory experience. (John 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 a work that is designed to correct an evil by means of ridicule. Not to be confused with verbal irony or sarcasm. It’s purpose is to upbraid and to warn.
Satire
A cultural attraction to the art and thought of Ancient Greece and Rome. Beginning in 16th century Italy as a result of the study or classical literature.
Neoclassicism
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
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
Highly emotionalized and moralized tragedy designed to arouse benevolent feelings
Sentimental drama
An 18th century r action against neoclassicism that anticipated romanticism. In subject matter writers favored the quality picturesque or the pitiful, aiming to arouse human feelings through scene of contentment of pathos.
Sentimentalism
The belief that human reason rather than revelation or authority is the source of all knowledge and the only valid basis for action.
Rationalism
A long highly stylized lyric poem written in a complex stanza in 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 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 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. (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 diction: 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 fourth 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
