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Restoration Age to Romantic Period
Stuff From Class
38
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Undergraduate 2
03/28/2012

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Term
Allusion
Definition
Draws parallels to classics
Term
Mock Heroic
Definition
Lofty language for trivial matters
Term

Author of Mac Flecknoe

 

Definition

John Dryden

 

Mac Flecknoe is a Mock Heroic about settling the succession of Flecknoe the King of Dullness

 

Targets Thomas Shadwell

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Author of Way of the World
Definition

William Congrove

 

Comedy of Manners: Genre of play/television/film which satirizes the manners and addectations of a social class. 

 

Act IV: Prenupt scene

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Author of Modest Proposal 
Definition

Jonathan Swift

 

Ironic

Eating babies as the solution to poverty in Ireland

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Author of Reasons that Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem Called the Lady's Dressing Room
Definition

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

 

Ad Hominem

Response to Swift

Term
Author of The Rape of the Lock
Definition

Alexandar Pope

 

Mock Heroic

Mention of dressing table in line 121

 

Term
Author of Fantomina
Definition

Eliza Haywood

 

Manipulation: empowerment to demale character

Fictionality of characters

Term
Author of Guilliver's Travels
Definition

Jonathon Swift


Travel Writing

From publisher to reader

Omitting mentions of longtitudes and lattitudes due to uninterested reader

Term
Preface to Joseph Andrews
Definition
Henry Fielding
Term
Author of Elegy Writting in a Country Churchyard
Definition

Thomas Gray

 

More similar to Ode than elegy

Epitaph serves to repress the narrato's fear of dying (pg2870)

Describes surrounding 

Term
Author or Castle Rackrent
Definition

Maria Edgeworth

Told from servant's point of view

The reckless behavior of the heirs to the castle. Critizes Anglo-Irish rule in Ireland

Term
Author of Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Definition

William Wordsworth

 

Used as a safety to protect himself. Says that it is "Experimental" 

"For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings..."

Term
Author of We are Seven
Definition

William Wordsworth


Child fights against authority.

supernatural theme

Term
Author of Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey
Definition

William Wordsworth

 

Conversation poem

3 Temporal changes

Written in present tense

"eye made quiet" = synesthesia 

Term
Author of On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
Definition

John Keats

 

Talks about George Campans' version of the works of Homen

Term
Petrarchan Sonnet
Definition

Octave+sestet

iambic pentameter

Term
Locus Classicus
Definition
A passage from a classical or standard that is cited as an illustration or instance
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Verbal Irony
Definition
Sarcasm
Term
Dramatic Irony
Definition
Actions have different meaning to audience then the character
Term
Situational Irony
Definition

Result of Irony is opposite of the intended result

"shot with your own gun"

Term
Cosmic Irony
Definition

Despairity, fate has denied success to plan

 

Ex: Titanic 

Term
Ad Hominem
Definition
Latin- To the man
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Whig History
Definition
Connected to the idea of progress and perfection
Term
Metonym
Definition

Words that are associatied with a group

 

"cradle to the grave" = Birth to Death

 

Term
Synecdoche
Definition

A part is made to represent the whole

Ex: "The sails in the ocean"

Sails= ships

Term
Iamb
Definition
-/
Term
Anapest
Definition
--/
Term
Trochee
Definition
/-
Term
Dactyl
Definition
/--
Term
Spondee
Definition
//
Term
Pantheism
Definition
Seeing God in Nature
Term
Egotistical Sublime
Definition

Wordsworth

Reflecting something of oneself outward

Term
Negative Capability
Definition

Sending the self out and embedding everything else

 

Coined by Keats

 

Term

The reverend lover with surprise

Peeps in her bubbies, and her eyes,

And kisses both, and tries-- and tries.

The evening in this hellish play, Beside his guineas thrown away,

Provoked the priest to that degree

He Swore, "The fault is not in me.

Definition

Lady Montagu

 

The Reasons that Induced Dr. Swift to write a poem called the lady's dressing room. 

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