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Angelo Saxon
950 AD
Anonymous
Epic
Recited from memory then transcribed by
monk
Portrays contradiction between
christian and pagan beliefs |
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| Noah's Flood-Mystery Plays |
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Mideval
12-15th Century
Anonymous
Mystery Play
Play
Advertised their wares |
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Mideval
1386
Chaucer
Frame Narritive poem
Scrible publication and distribution
Focus on Irony and character |
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Mideval
1386
Chaucer
Estates Satire
Scible publication and distribution
Focus on Irony and character |
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Mideval
1386
Chaucer
Fablieu
Scrible publication and distribution
Focus on Irony and character |
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Medeval
1386
Chaucer
Confession
Scrible publication and distribution
Focus on Irony and character |
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Mideval
1386
Chaucer
exemplum
Scrible publication and distribution
Focus on Irony and Character |
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Mideval
1436
Confession
Recitation to priest
Highly sexualized vision of christ |
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Thomas Moore
Renessance
1514
Humanist Treatise
Print
Dialouge between his warring halves |
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Elizabeth I
Rennessance
1588
propaganda
speech/print/painting
The painting was mass produced |
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Sir Phillip Sydney
Renessance
1582
Sonnet sequence
Manuscript for courtier audience printed after death |
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John Dunn
Rennessance
1590's
metaphysical poetry
manuscript for courtier audience printed after death |
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John Dunn
17th century
1600-1610
Holy sonnets
Manuscript for courtier audience
printed after death |
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John Dunn
17th century
1623
Meditaions
Printed |
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Herrick
17th century
1640
cavalier
Printed |
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Marvel
17th century
1650's
Pastoral
Manuscript to Print |
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John Milton
17th Century
1667
Epic
Thought it up and recited it and then printed |
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Milton
17th century
1644
Polemic
Print
The author became the book licencer it railed against |
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Shakespeare
Rennesance
1590's
Revenge Tragedy
Dramatic performance later printed
Most critics deny shakespeare wrote it. |
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The anthropomorphizing of an abstract idea.
ex: Sin and Death in Paradise Lost |
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The repetition of the initial consonant sound in closely positioned words.
ex: The structure in Beowulf |
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Referencing a literary text from another author.
ex: the reference to Ovid in Titus Andr. |
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unrhymed iambic pentameter lines
ex: Paradise lost |
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The selection of important works from a give period or place.
ex: The literature we read in class. |
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poetry centered around living in the moment rather than any ethical code
ex: marvel and herrick |
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| classical, classicism, classic |
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works of greek or roman antiquity.
forms influenced by classical work
Also denotes famous works in a canon.
ex: |
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two consecutive, rhyming lines containing the same number of stresses.
ex:Chaucer's work |
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representation of conversation between speakers
:shakespeare |
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| the actual words used in an utterance |
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| mode designed to teach the audience |
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| a story about a people. Has a beginning middle and end, generally beginning in the middle. The hero is invested with the values of his represented people. |
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A simile developed over the course of many lines.
ex: Satans spear is a pine tree or a cane |
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| a poem about or creating a mood of loss |
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A mideval form of literature critisizing how society has gotten out of hand by satirizing the church nobility and peasantry.
ex: canturbury tales |
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| An example inserted into a work to drive home an abstract idea |
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| A short funny, often bawdy narritive in a low style. |
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gives a story, within a story.
ex: Canturbury tales |
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| the style, structure and length of a work when coupled with subject matter. |
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short piece of wisdom interjected into a story
ex: the out of place mottoes in beowulf |
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| attaching importance to people before importance to any supernatural or higher power |
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| a person who attacks cherished religious beliefs or institutions |
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| the disparity between a statement and the context that undermines the statement |
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| calling on one of the greek muse's to help with the writing or telling of a tale |
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a figure of speech or phrase to describe something using a limited vocabulary
eg: whale road |
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| comparing something to something else without the use of like or as |
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| poetry that works through large quantities of scale and abstract differences. |
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| the representation and imitation of what is taken to be reality |
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| religious plays put on by the "mysteries" or guilds in a town |
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two words forming a paradoxical phrase
ex: darkness visable |
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| poetry set in and about the shephards |
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| giving human traits to non-human objects |
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| drama performed by amatures |
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| drama performed by actors |
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| the play on the double meaning or close sound of two words |
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| the repetition of identical vowel sounds in stressed syllables whose initial consonants differ |
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| a genre of literature marked by a quest or the disintegration and reintegration of a character or society |
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| a poet who performs from memory |
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| the comparison between two objects using like or as |
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| a long speech given by a character to the audience to expous his thoughts |
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| a fourteen line poem usually in rhyming iambic pentameter |
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| a story depicting the fall of kings or noble people, beginning in happiness and ending in catastrophe. |
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| a fictional place of perfect quality |
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| the language of the people as distinguished from the more learned languages |
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| the restriction of what can be published |
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| the leaf formed by the front and backside of a page |
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| any text written physically by hand |
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| the support given by a wealthy person to bolster the endeavors of an aspiring author |
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| the mechanical reproduction of books using movable type |
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