English Literature I Terms
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- Humanism
- Ethical philosophies prominant in European Renaissance
- Sola Scrptura
- Scripture, not the Church, has authority
- Sola fide
- Only the faith of the individual, not good works or rituals, can effect salvation
- Ministry of all Believers
- All people are equal servants of God
- Sonnet Form
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- 14 lines
- Divided into octave and Sestet
- rhyme scheme: abbaabba
- Love a common theme - Conceit
- Fanciful ingenious expresssion in form of extended metaphor
- Ballet
- native English poetic form used as dance song with short stanzas and refrains
- Sonnet Cycle
- series of sonnets on same subject and or dedicated to the same person
- Paradox
- Stateent that seems self-contradictory but reveals deeper meaning
- English/Shakespearean sonnet
- iombic pantameter w/ 3 quatrains and a couplet's turn or summary in the couplet (ababcdcdefefgg)
- Feminine Rhyme
- rhyme of two or more sylabbles with accent falling on sylable other than the last
- Dramatic unities
- needs to be unified within action, time, and place (all within 24 hour time period)
- Masque
- courtly entertainment with singing, dancing, and elaborate costumes generally in honor of birth or marriage
- blank verse
- unrhymed iambic pentameter often used by Shakespeare
- enjambed line
- line of petery not stopped, spills onto following line.
- Metapyhsical Conciet
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- surprising metaphor that links unlik images throughout poem
- interchanging vocab of sexual or religious love
- use of puns and paradoxes - Alba
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A: A gorgeous Actress
B: dawn song; portrays sadness of lovers that have to part in the morning so their spouse wont discover them - Interregnum
- English was a commonwealth and protectrate under the Cromwells
- Cavalier poets
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- poetry light and secular
- direct language and suspicous of earnest and intense poetry
-embodied life of upperclass before Intergnum - Ballad Stanza
- quatrains with alternating four-stress and three-stress lines (abcb) (Herrick)
- Ciceronian Style
- writing characterized by copia, peonasm, and hypotzxis
- Copia
- abundance
- pleonasm
- elegant restatement
- hypotaxis
- complex structure full of subordinate clauses
- Senecan Style
- writing characterized by brevity, broken rhythems, and parataxis
- Parataxis
- clauses of equal importance, with short or loosley organized sentences
- Essay
- short work, usually in prose, that treats a subject from the author's point of view (Bacon)
- Aphorism
- familiar statement expresing observation or principal generally accepted as wise or true (Bacon)
- Rife's Best Quote of the Year
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"He's not comparing her to a brick shit-house or anything"
-- Amber Rife 3/6/2006 - Sir Thomas Wyatt (669)
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(1503-1542)
- Whose List to Hunt
- They Flee From Me
- My Lute Awaken
- Blame Not My Lute - Sir Philip Sidney (967)
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(1554-1586)
- Astroaphil and Stella - William Shakespeare (1222)
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(1564-1586)
- Sonnets
- The Tempest - John Donne (1647)
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(1572-1631)
- The Good Morrow
- Song
- The Sun Rising
- A Valediction: Of Weeping
- Holy Sonnets - Ben Johnson (1629)
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(1572-1637)
- To John Donne - George Herbert (1685)
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(1593-1633)
- The Altar
- Easter
- Easter Wings
- Jordan (1) & (2)
- The Collar
- The Pulley
- Love (3) - Robert Herrick (1647)
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(1591-1647)
- The Argument of his Book
- To the Sour Reader
- Delight in Disorder
- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
- Upon Julia's Clothes
- To his Tomb-Maker - Andrew Marvell (1724)
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(1621-1687)
- To his Coy Mistress
- The Defenition of Love - Francic Bacon (1748)
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(1561-1626)
- Of Truth
- Of Marriage and Single Life - Thomas Hobbes (1762)
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(1588-1679)
- Liviathan
- The Anatomy of Melancholy - John Milton (1810)
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(1608-1674)
- When I consider how my light is spent
- Paradise Lost