british literature

accentual-syllabic meter

verse with fixed stresses and syllables per line, renaissance

alliterative verse

anglo-saxon style, unrhymed english verse four stresses, same 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, dominated drama in 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

intellectual education movement encouraged return to ancient source texts

iambic pentameter

alternating stresses, chaucer

Jacobean

after elizabethan, king james bible

kenning

using combination of words to mean something

litotes

description by way of understatement

long eighteenth century

1680s to 1800s

lyric poetry

doesn't convey extended narrative, other kind from narrative 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)

18th century yardstick for 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/god’s 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)

sentiments produced by quickness of fancy

wyrd

fate, old english

volta/turn

change in vibe in sonnet

Thomas Wyatt

introduced english sonnet