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Enjambment

the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next

Ekphrasis

a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art

Blazon/Anti-Blazon

to adore and embellish/describe in a bad way

Volta

the shift or point of dramatic change in a poem

Octavo, Folio, Quarto, ETC

size of the book, determined by the size it makes as a folded sheet of paper

Shakespere's First Folio

first collection of 36 plays, published in 1623

What are the three kind of sonnets?

Shakesperean (English), Petrarchan (Italian) and Spenserian

Scansion

the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm

Metrical Feet

A group of a single pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables

Stanzation

the grouping of poetic lines into stanzas (units of poetic lines usually delineated by line breaks)

The Globe

Shakespeare's theatre in London

Lord Chamberlain's Men

the acting troupe with which Shakespeare was associated throughout the 1590s

cognitive rehearsal

The technique of carrying out a task in one's imagination.

Sharers

Shareholders who found financial resources and talent for the acting company

Examples of typecast characters

The fool, the charismatic villain, the gullible old man

Parts of a theater

Thrust (went out from the main stage), Heaven (the roof), Hell (entrances, exits, trapdoors)

Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy

unity of time, place, and action

Hamartia

a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine

Catharsis

a release of emotional tension

Chorus

A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.

The Medieval Mortality Play

about the battle for the soul and featured personified virtues and vices

Soliloquy

A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage

Literary Darwinists

Claim evolutionary science can explain literature, and that English departments are intellectually unserious

Body-Mind Problem

Rene Descarte argued the mind and body were seperate

Humoralism

was an idea popularized by the Roman physician Galen, who believed that the human body contained four humors, or body fluids; yellow bile, black bile, blood and phlegm, and in a healthy body these four humors existed in balance, and if they did not one must be gotten rid of.

4E Cognitive Science

embodies, embedded, enacted, extended. cognition distributed through actors, props, audience, and physical space

Comedy

sidesteps the brains prediction of what will happen based on pattern recognition

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