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accentual-syllabic meter
verse with fixed stresses and syllables per line, renaissance
alliterative verse
anglo-saxon style, unrhymedĀ englishĀ verseĀ fourĀ stresses,Ā sameĀ letter
Anglo-Norman French
marie de france
Anglo-Saxon period
400-600ish, germanic invasions, kingdoms
anticlericalism (medieval)
opposition to clergy in protestant reformation
anti-feminism (medieval)
women are lustful, sinful, greedy, etc. authorities
Augustan period/poetry
early 18th century, looked to classical works, neoclassicism, enlightenment
blank verse
unrhymed iambic, dominatedĀ dramaĀ inĀ elizabethan
Civil Wars (English)
mid-1600s between royalists and parliamentarians
comedy
not a tragedy
Commonwealth
execution of charles i, republic rather than monarchy, militaristic rule/war among britain, interregnum
conceit
fancy metaphor, petrarchan
couplet
two lines of poem that rhyme
East India Company
elegy/elegiac
renaissance poem form of couplets
Elizabethan
mid-1500s to 1600s, elizabeth i, shakespeare
Elizabethan drama
first big plays not about god
Elizabethan sonnet craze
after wyatt introduced sonnets to english
Enlightenment
rationalism, reason
essay (18th -c)
nonfiction literary genre
Estates Satire
satire of estates theory, chaucer
Estates Theory
clergy, knights, common
Freitag Pyramid
map of shakespearean plots
Glorious Revolution
1688, king james ii overthrown, shift of power to parliament
heroic couplet
couplet in iambic pentameter, chaucer, alexander pope
humanism
intellectualĀ educationĀ movementĀ encouragedĀ returnĀ toĀ ancientĀ sourceĀ texts
iambic pentameter
alternating stresses, chaucer
Jacobean
after elizabethan, king james bible
kenning
using combination of words to mean something
litotes
descriptionĀ byĀ wayĀ ofĀ understatement
long eighteenth century
1680s to 1800s
lyric poetry
doesn'tĀ conveyĀ extendedĀ narrative,Ā otherĀ kindĀ fromĀ narrativeĀ poetry
Middle English
chaucer, post-normans to 1300s
modern English/early modern English
1300s to 1600s
morality play
allegorical entertainment usually performed by travelling players
narrative poetry
poetry that tells a story, as opposed to lyrical
Nature (18th century)
18thĀ centuryĀ yardstickĀ forĀ art
neoclassicism/neoclassical poetry
inspired by greek and romans
Norman conquest
anglo-saxon occupation of england
novel
long prose work, non-flat characters
octave
first part of sonnet, 8 lines
Old English
400-1100s, anglo-frisian
overreacher
reach beyond human capacity/godās limits; faustus
personification allegory
Petrarchanism/anti-Petrarchanism
stock metaphors, obsessive love
prose
not poetry
Protestant Reformation
1500s
Puritan
quatrain
Renaissance
Restoration
brought charles ii to throne, 1650s, ends the commonwealth
Restoration drama
romance
Roundhead/Cavalier
parliament supporter vs royalist
Royalist
sestet
six lines, end of petrarchan sonnet
sonnet (Italian sonnet, English sonnet)
14 lines, has volta/turn
Stuart dynasty
charles ii, restoration after cromwell died
tragedy
triplet
3 lines
Tudor dynasty
york and lancaster families married after 100-year war, henry viii, elizabeth i
Whigs & Tories
parliamentarians vs royalists (king james)
wit (Renaissance, 18th century)
sentimentsĀ producedĀ byĀ quicknessĀ ofĀ fancy
wyrd
fate, old english
volta/turn
change in vibe in sonnet
Thomas Wyatt
introduced english sonnet