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British Literature Flashcards

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A story with a literal and an implied level of meaning. The implied level of meaning may suggest actual persons, places, events, and situations or a set of ideas. A parable is a form of allegory.

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Allegory

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the recurrence of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stressed syllables

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Alliteration

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A reference within a work of literature to something outside of it. Literary allusions refer to other works of literature. (Classical, Biblical, and Historical are the three kinds.)

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Allusion

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villain of the story

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Antagonist

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Aphorism

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the addressing of some nonpersonal object as if it were able to reply

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Apostrophe

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A short, simple narrative song. Common ones consist of four iambic lines.

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Ballad

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Biography

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Unrhymed iambic-pentameter

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Blank Verse

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major pauses within lines, marked by a double bar

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Caesura

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Comedy

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a striking and often elaborate comparison carried out in considerable detail.

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Conceit

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Conflict

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14
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A pair of rhymed lines

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Couplet

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Dialect

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A poem consisting of a speech by a character addressing an audience at a critical moment in his life.

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Dramatic Monologue

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Originally any poem of solemn meditation

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Elegy

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Enjabment

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A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero

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Epic

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Extended Metaphor

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Figurative Language

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Folktale

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Foreshadowing

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Frame Story

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25
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contrast appearance and reality. Two types are verbal and situational.

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Irony

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Kenning

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Lyrical Poetry

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The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry

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Meter

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Broadly, the expression of one thing in terms of another. In stricter usage, it is the stated or implied equivalence of two things.

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Metaphor

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the giving of personal characteristics to something that is not a person.

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Personification

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hero of the story

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Protagonist

32
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attempt in fiction to create an illusion of actuality by the use of seemingly random detail or by the inclusion of the ordinary or unpleasant in life.

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Realism

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A reaction against the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism. It insisted on the greater importance of (1) individual than group perceptions, (2) imagination and feeling than reason, and (3) the natural than the artificial.

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Romanticism

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Corrective ridicule in literature, or a work that is designed to correct an evil by means of ridicule.

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Satire

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A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature. A work may have many themes. Its major theme is its main point, similar to the thesis of an essay.

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Theme

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the belief that human reason rather than revelation or authority is the source of all knowledge and the only valid basis for action.

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Rationalism

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an ethical system developed by Jeremy Bentham based on the human desire for pleasure rather than pain and, politically, on the principle of the greatest good for the greatest number.

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Utilitarianism

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a reverence for tradition as a source of authority or values in religion, morality, or art.

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Traditionalism

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the preference for an uncivilized life, either for the simple, rustic life of an earlier era or for the “natural” existence of present-day tribal communities.

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Primitivism

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a movement originating among the German disciples of Immanuel Kant that sought a higher religious view than Christianity and a higher artistic ideal than neoclassicism.

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Transcendentalism

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Romantic pessimism as expressed in philosophy, religion, and ethics. Agnostic, relativistic, and antiauthoritarian, it regards both God and the external world is unknowable.

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Existentialism

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Pluralism

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Instruction in literature. Writers and critics believe imaginative literature should have two purposes; to delight and to teach.

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Didacticism

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The English Period

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450 to 1100

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The Middle English Period

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1100 to 1485

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The Tudor Period

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1485 to 1603

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The Stuart Period

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1603 to 1688

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The Neoclassical Period

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1688 to 1789

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The Romantic Period

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1789 to 1832

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The Victorian Period

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1832 to 1914

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The Modern Period

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1914 to Present

52
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Rationalism can be defined as:

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the rule of reason in all areas of life

53
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What was Defoe’s most lasting contribution to the novel?

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Journalistic Realism

54
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What fundamental question does “An Essay On Man” seek to answer?

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Why does evil exist?

55
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Which of Pope’s characteristics did Dryden lack?

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diligence

56
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How did England’s domination of the seas help advance the industrial revolution?

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They kept the Spanish, Dutch, French, and Irish from natural resources.

57
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What three main beliefs of Scripture did deists reject?

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  1. Deity of Christ
  2. Christ’s Death and Resurrection
  3. Miracles in Scripture
58
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What is the purpose of satire?

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To up bread and to warn.

59
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Over what issue did the Wesleys and Whitefield sharply disagree?

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Calvinistic Doctrine of limited atonement

60
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T or F: Swift stated that the purpose of “Gulliver’s Travels” was to entertain.

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False

61
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T or F: According to John Wesley’s “Journal,” he had a grasp of Greek and enjoyed secular as well as sacred reading.

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True

62
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Utilitarianism evaluates the goodness or badness of an action based on its production of

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happiness

63
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Christians would agree with romantics on all the following points except that:

a. human reason has limitations.
b. intuition has some validity.
c. the individual has value.
d. freedom from limitations is needed.

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d. freedom from limitations is needed.

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Characteristics of romantic poetry include which of the following?

a. the poet as a primary subject
b. a highly individual perspective
c. an awe-inspiring atmosphere
d. all of the above

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d. All of the Above

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Wordsworth credited which of the following as being the major formative influence on his writing?

a. religion
b. nature
c. travel
d. education

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b. nature

66
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The primary mood of Lamb’s essays is

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nostalgic daydreaming

67
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The Byronic hero is characterized by all the following except:

a. remorse and repentance
b. arrogance and anguish
c. sullenness and solitude
d. self-will and rebellion

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a. remorse and repentance

68
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Section IV of “Ode to the Wild West” reveals Shelley’s agreement with the romantic belief in

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the superiority of childhood innocence and communion with nature.

69
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In Wordsworth’s definition of the poetic process, what idea reflects the dislike of control?

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He sees poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions.”

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What question, which is probably the most famous rhetorical question in English literature, expresses the theme of Shelley’s “Ode to the Wild West?”

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“If Winter Comes, Can Spring be far Behind?”

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T or F: The common element in all areas of romantic thinking– political, philosophical, and artistic –is freedom from limits.

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True

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