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Vocab/People/Dates Flashcards

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Lyric Poetry

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-A short snapshot: state of emotion, feeling, one time
-Unrequited love
-Rhyming and metrical and generally short

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Narrative Poetry

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A long story
Ex: Aeneid…”once upon a time”

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Petrarch (14c)

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-Italian scholar and poet who caused the lyric poetry uprise
-reflects themes of love, longing, and personal reflection

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Sonnet

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-Typically written in 14 lines
-Syllables alternate between stressed and unstressed
-Typically written in Iambic Pentameter

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John Donne

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-Most important lyric poet
-Known as the shapeshifter of poetry “Jack” or “Dr.”
-Jack: persona of youthful, witty poems about women/sex/love/profane…not Petrarchan
-Dr: Of the church, about God, being Christian, faith, poetic reflections on God, responsibilities about being a believer

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John Milton

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-Most important poet
-Associated with freedom of thought/speech/liberty
-distrustful of the institutional church, ally with Puritans
-Aspired to be England’s Dante

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Sir Thomas Wyatt

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-Discovers lyric poetry and brings it back
-father of the English sonnet

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Enjambment

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-Continuation of a sentence after a line break
-Creates a jerky feeling/no punctuation

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1603

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Union of the crowns
Death of Queen Elizabeth (stable reign)
James VI of Scotland takes the throne of England as James I

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1611

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-KJB, the King James version of the Bible
-Pivotal with religion and English culture

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1649

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Death of Charles 1 (beheaded)

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1688

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Glorious Revolution
William and Mary are the monarchs

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Interregnum

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11 years of no monarch because Charles is beheaded (1649-1660)

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Carpe Diem

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“Seize the day”

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Renaissance

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Circa 1476
Intellectual and artistic movement which caused a rise of english poetry and theatre
Printing press created: produced texts easily, preserves, copies, stabilizing a text
england

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Humanism

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An intellectual movement; influence of Renaissance ideals
Inspiration from classical texts and philosophies
Ex: milton’s questioning of free will and divine justice (Paradise Lost)

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Shakespearean sonnet

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3 quatrains and 1 couplet

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Octet

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8 lines in a poem (first part of a larger sonnet)
Introducing the problem, situation, argument (intro)
Volta in between

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Sestet

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Follows the octet as the final six lines
Resolves or responds to the issue presented in the octet (resolution)

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Quatrain

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Four lines which typically rhyme
Different rhyming patterns
ABAB, AABB, ABBA

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Couplet

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Tight little stanzas linked by sound and content
Two lines, typically rhyming, same meter

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Iamb

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ta-TUM stress pattern
Ex: except; the deer; “allow” or “behold”
First unstressed then stressed syllable

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Trochee

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TUM-ta
First stressed (loud) syllable then second is unstressed (soft or weak)
Ex: asking; lost it

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Tetrameter

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A line that has four metrical feet
da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM (four iambs)
Ex: “The course of true love never did run smooth”

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Pentameter

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A line that has five metrical feet
Five iambs

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Hexameter

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A line that has six metrical feet
Six iambs

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alliteration

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Same letter or sound in the beginning of a set of words

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pastoral

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idealized world of a shepherd’s lifestyle/country life
Ex: Lycidas by John Milton

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elegy

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Reflective poem, typically for the dead

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elision

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Excluding one or more sounds, syllables, or letters from a word
Ex: “over” to “o’er”
“I would” to “I’d”

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Novel

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Oroonoko by aphra behn is one of the earliest examples of a novel in the english language
Extended work of narrative fiction

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Conceit

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Elaborate metaphor
Ex: the flea by john donne

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Metaphysical poets

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Known for conceits (elaborate metaphors) to describe themes of love, death, faith
Ex: john donne

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Libretto

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Text or script of an opera
Ex: Dido and Aeneas

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Aria

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Solo vocal piece that allows a character to express their emotions
Ex: Dido and Aeneas when Dido sings “When I am laid in earth”
Expresses her sorrow as she prepares for her death after aeneas left her

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1660: The Restoration

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Charles II as king, restored the monarch in England

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