english final

Humanism

the individual self over God

Jacobean

anything related to king James I

Early Modern

1450-1800

Tudor

a family that reigned over England

Stuart

relating to the royal family ruling Scotland

Elizabethan

relating to or characteristic of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

aside

speaking to the audience unheard by the other players

blank verse

unrhymed iambic pentameter

deux ex machina

unlikely intervention from an unlikely source

Divine Right of Kings

the idea that a king is put in place by God

folio

a page folded

iambic pentameter

5 feet per line

play-within-a-play

a play staged inside of the plot of another play

quarto

a paper folded into 4 pieces

regicide

killing a king

soliloquy

a character giving a speech to the audience rather than other players

tragedy

a play that results in the downfall of the main character

satire

using humor to criticize ones actions

Chamonix

a mountain town in France

concentric narratives

when the speaker of a story holds back a truth to be revealed later

Erasmus Darwin

first to propose evolution

frame narrative

a story within a story

Henry Clerval

a friend of victor who cares for him when he is sick

John Milton

wrote paradise lost

Luigi Galvani

electrocuted frogs

Mary Wollstonecraft

mary shellys feminist mother

Mount Tambora

a volcano whose eruption caused year without summer leading to the writing of Frank

Prometheus

a greek myth known for bringing fire to man

tabula rasa

the idea that humans are a blank slate it is the world that makes us corrupt

unreliable narrator

a narrator that does not tell the whole truth

1818

mary shelley's frank

1599

hamlet

1789

poetry of william blake

1798

poetry of william wordsworth and samuel coleridge

1813

poetry of lord byron

1817

poetry of bysshe shelley

1819

poetry of john keats

william godwin

father of mary shelley

robert walton

the captain of the the ship in frank

allusion

making a reference to something or someone culturally significant

anaphora

word of phrase repeated at the being of lines

anastrophe

inverted word order (yoda talking)

antithesis

placing contrasting, parallel, balanced ideas close together

apostrophe

the poet addresses someone or something that is not there

asyndeton

omitting conjunctions (i came i saw i conquered)

ballad meter

switching between tetrameter and trimeter

chiasmus

concepts in an inverted order

diacope

the repetition of a word with words in between

epizeuxis

the repetition of the same word without words in between

juxtaposition

placing contrasting ideas next to each other

metonymy

using substitute words to name a thing (crown for monarchy)

polyptoton

repetition of the same root word

polysyndeton

repetition of coordinating conjunctions

petrarchan sonnet

a sonnet with the rhyme scheme abbaabba

shakespearean sonnet

a sonnet with iambic pentameter with the volta at line 14

parkinsons law

work will expand to fill the time allotted for its completion

metacognition

1. assess the task

2. evaluate strengths

3. plan the approach

4. apply strategies

5. reflect

complexity

exploring multiple dimensions of an idea