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| What is a pastoral genre? and what are two examples of it? |
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| a poem treating of shepherds and rustic life; highly conventionalized; usually long and complicated in plot; characters bear pastoral names; As You Like It and The Winter's Tale |
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| How does Shakespeare use pastoral conventions? |
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| to criticize social practices, to explore/question gender differences; to examine nature of people, emotions, ideas using the facades of fairy tales... |
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| when a speaker turns to directly address an absent person, object, or abstract quality as though present; "to turn away" |
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| the ecstatic inventory of the beloved's physical features by the speaker-poet |
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| What is conceit in poetry? |
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| elaborately sustained metaphor or comparison |
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| in rhetoric, trope is a figure of speech involving a turn or change of sense- a use of the word in a sense other than literal |
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| What is a 14 line poem in iambic pentameter? |
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| What are the main types of sonnets? |
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| Italian and Petrarchan, English and Shakespearean, and Spenserian |
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| What does an Italian sonnet involve? |
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| Octave (8 Lines): abba abba or abab abab |
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| What does a Petrarchan sonnet involve? |
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| Sestet (six lines): cdecde or cdcdcd |
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| What does an English or Shakespearean sonnet involve? |
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| 3 Quatrains and Couplet: abab cdcd efef gg |
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| Who developed the English or Shakespearean sonnet? |
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| Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey |
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| What does the Spenserian sonnet involve? |
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| complicated interlocking rhymes: abab bcbc cdcd ee |
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| What are some conventional themes of a sonnet? |
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| love of the poet for a beautiful but unattainable woman, poet-lover, topics of lady's attributes, effects of the relationship, renunciation of love, eternity and originality of his poems |
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| What are some characteristics of a Petrarchan sonnet? |
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| petrarchan conceits, hyperbolic analogies, oxymorons, paradoxes, volta |
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| What are some characteristics of a Shakespearean sonnet? |
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| moods of lover vary; little sign of progress in relationships; use of closing couplets; satirizes extremes of Petrarchan artificiality and idealization |
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| employs a plot suitable to tragedy but ends happily; actions seems to lead to a tragic catastrophe until an unexpected turn in events; deus ex machina brings about unknotting |
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| What is an example of a tragicomedy? |
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| What are some characteristics of tragicomedy? |
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| complex and improbable plot, rapid action, rescues in the nick of time, disguises, surprises, jealousy, treachery, intrigue |
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| What play does Ovid's Metamorphoses reflect? |
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| What are broadside sheets? |
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| tabloids of Shakespearean England; newsworthy events converted into rhymed narratives; printed on broadside sheets |
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| What were the major topics in broadside sheets? |
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| politics, religion, and sex |
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| What two plays are influence by Cinthioan's Gli Hecatommithi? |
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| Angelo in Measure for Measure and Othello |
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| What is the genre for Measure for Measure? |
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| What are the three rhetorical proof? |
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| appeal to the reason of the audience |
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| appeal to the emotions awakened by a speaker |
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| appeal exerted by the character of the speaker |
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| What are the special topics related to the 3 kinds of persuasive discourse? |
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| deliberative or political; epideictic or ceremonial; judicial or forensic |
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| What is an Aristotelian tragedy? |
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| purpose is to arouse pity and fear, by either spectacle or plot, and to produce in the audience a catharsis of these emotions |
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| What is a dramatic irony? |
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| it is the tragic figure's talent that leads to destruction |
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| What is a Shakespearean tragedy? |
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| ends in annihilation, misery, separation and loss; nature conspires against humans rather than cooperates; hope seems futile; order is restored but not without cost |
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| a size of book page resulting from folding each printed sheet into four leaves |
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| an individual leaf of paper or parchment, numbered on the recto or front side only, occurring either loose as one of a series or forming part of a bound volume. |
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| What is machiavellianism? |
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| cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, esp. in politics or in advancing one's career. |
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