augustan poetry Flashcards
1
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poet’s role in augustan poetry ?
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providing social poetry with models of refined behaviour
2
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what pattern were used
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a classical pattern where poems didnt express the poet’s personal feelings and even dissent were written with detachment
3
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the techniques used
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satire and mock-heroic verse were tecniques for criticism and moral concern
4
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the aim of the techniques
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is to achieve a comic effect by using trivial style of an epic
5
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language and style
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use of poetic diction ; stardard phrases and periphares for everyday object , apostrope, personification and inversion as well as latinised words adopted by the latin poet horace
