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final wl2 Flashcards

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Satire

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Irony

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Foreshadowing

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Foil

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Fable

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Personification

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Exemplum

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Allegory

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Blank verse

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Heroic couplet

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Alexandrine

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Commedia Dell’Arte

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Deus ex machina

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Why was it called the “Enlightenment?” Who called it that?

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Deism

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Empiricists and rationalists

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Neoclassicism

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Convention

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View of nature

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pathetic fallecy

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personification

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Apostrophe

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Lyric Poetry

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Assonance

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View of nature

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View of Death

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View of imagination

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View of the individual

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View of the artist/poet

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Problem play

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a play that confronts an issue within society

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“Well-made play”

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a play that reveals secrets of the characters gradually and is limited to only one climactic moment

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Tragedy: hamartia, catharsis

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tragic flaw in personality

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“Le mot juste” (the right word)

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just the correct word for the situation

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Free indirect discourse

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narration that moves among the consciousness of the characters without authorial commentary

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Counterpoint/ juxtaposition

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narration that shifts between two simultaneous scenes

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Realistic techniques of theatre used

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common phrases, pauses, interruption, rejected romantics

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Class of society frequently depicted in realist works

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Magical realism

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magic elements are a natural part of a realistic environment

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Existentialism

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thinking begins with human subject by acting, feeling, and living

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The “Absurd”

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conflict between human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning of life and the human inability to find any

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“Engagement”

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“Breaking the fourth wall”

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breaking the barrier between the audience and the cast

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modernism

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late 19th and early 20th century and questions the rationality of mankind

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postmodernism

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we try to understand our own reality and question scientific assumptions

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postcolonialism

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understand the knowledge of control

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cultural parochialism

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problems related directly to a culture

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Metatheatre

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the actors on the stage become the audience

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Self-reflexivity

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the actors on the stage become the audience

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Surrealism

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1920s movement to resolve the previous contradictory conditions of dreams and reality

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Questions of identity, humanity

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the entire modernism movement questioned the actions of humans and their ability to choose their destiny against the will of science and reason. Who one is and weather they act according to norms

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Difficulty of communication

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Perception/perspective of the perceiver and the perceived

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The perceiver can view someone differently than they see themselves, but eventually they will see the same thing. The truth comes out

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Breaking with tradition/authority (by literary form or by character’s actions/plot of story)

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Literary forms are different than before. The fantastic world of dreams question reality, and the characters act contrary while pointing out social problems or inadequacies of each other

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Reader/spectator involvement in the story

Tone or writing styles frequently used:

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the fourth wall between the audience is broken and the audience/reader are far more emotionally engaged in the story line

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Molière works

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Tartuffe

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La Fontaine works

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Fables (The Cicada and the Ant, The Crow and the Fox, The Wolf and the Lamb, The Oak and the Reed, The Lion and the Rat, The Fox and the Grapes, The Rooster and the Fox, The Two Pigeons)

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Racine works

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Phèdre

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Leopardi works

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  1. To Sylvia,
  2. The Infinite,
  3. The Village Saturday,
  4. To Himself
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Becquer works

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  1. I Know a Strange Gigantic Hymn

2. Nameless Spirit

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Hugo works

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  1. The Child (of Chios),

2. Tomorrow at Daybreak

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Heine works

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  1. A Pine Tree Stands Lonely,
  2. A Young Man loves a Maiden,
  3. The Silesian Weavers,
  4. Ah, Death is like a long cool night,
  5. Die Lorelei
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Lamartine works

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The Lake

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Bunina works

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From the Seashore

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de Castro works

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  1. The Ailing Woman Felt her forces ebb,
  2. The Glowworm scatters flashes in the Moss
  3. As I composed this little book
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Ibsen works

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Hedda Gabler

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Maupassant works

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“Hautot and his Son”

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Gogol works

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“The Overcoat”

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Tolstoy works

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The Death of Ivan Ilych

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Kafka works

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“The Metamorphosis”

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Pirandelloworks

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6 characters in Search of an Author

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Brecht works

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The Good Woman of Setzuan

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Molière country of origin

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La Fontaine country of origin

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Racine country of origin

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Leopardi country of origin

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Becquer country of origin

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Hugo country of origin

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Heine country of origin

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Lamartine country of origin

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Bunina country of origin

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de Castro country of origin

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Ibsen country of origin

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Maupassant country of origin

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Gogol country of origin

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Tolstoy country of origin

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Kafka country of origin

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Pirandello country of origin

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Brecht country of origin

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