Topicos Literarios Flashcards

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Locus Amoenus

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“Pleasant Place”

  • Paradise cliche, occasionally tinged with melancholy
  • Description of nature as full of harmony, plenitude and beauty.
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Aura Mediocritas

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“Golden Medium”

Praise of modern, simple life and moderate happiness using renunciation of wealth or power

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Carpe Diem

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“Seize the Day”

An invitation to live, even though life is short and we die, it is still wonderful (positive nihilism)

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Collige Virgo Rosas

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‘Take the roses, girl’

Advice to a girl to take advantage of her youth, because like lush roses, beauty is ephemeral

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Tempus Fugit

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‘Time flies’

Life is fleeting, often referencing clocks

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Vida Flumen

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‘Life is a river’

the rivers of our lives flow into the sea of death

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Ubi Sunt?

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‘Where are they?’

Rhetoric questions about historical figures and buildings made to last but have faded to traces of memory

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Vanitas Vanitatum o Vanitas Vanitatis

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‘Vanity of vanities’

insists on the inanity and expiration of the things after life, even ones such as wisdom, since they are only smoke

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Omnia Vincit Amor

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‘Love will find a way’

expression that grants love passion the capacity to go beyond human limits, overcoming all difficulties

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Descriptio Puella

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‘Description of a girl’

describes a detailed and stereotyped portrait of a beautiful young woman, often matching the parts of her anatomy with precious elements of nature: gold in her hair, carnation in her lips, pearls in her teeth…

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