Chapter 3B Flashcards
(27 cards)
Instruction in literature. Writers and critics believe imaginative literature should have two purposes; to delight and to teach
Didacticism
A highly artificial literary mode which centers on shepherds and idealizes rural settings.
Pastoralism
A lyric poem of fourteen iambic-pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to one of two patterns,
Sonnet
The first eight lines, called the octave, rhyme abbaabba. The last six lines called. The sestet may use any combination of two or three new rhymes. For sample, cdcdcd, cdecde, cdecde.
Petrarchan or Italian sonnet
Consists of three quatrains and closing couplet and rhymes ababcdcdefeffg (improvised by the earl of surrey and refined by Shakespeare)
Shakespearean
The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry. Read and understand the full definition given in your textbook glossary
Meter
Identical sound in corr spending words or phrases (list and define all types of rhyme from your textbook glossary.)
Rhyme
A four line stanza, one of the most common stanza forms in English poetry
Quatrain
A seeming contradiction
Paradox
The addressing of some no personal (or absent) object as if it were able to reply
Apostrophe
Broadly, the expression of one thing in terms of another. In stricter usage, it is the stated or implied equivalence of two things. (“I am the bread of life.”
Metaphor
A recurring of emerging idea in a work of literature. A work may have many themes. It’s major theme is its main point, similar to the thpoint sis of an essay. It may explicit or implicit
Theme
A striking and often elaborate comparison carried out in considerable detail
Conceit
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
A speech addressed to an audience by an actor alone on stage.
Soliloquy
A stage device in which a character briefly discloses his thoughts in the presence of other characters who by convention do not hear him.
Aside
Who was supporting himself and his company by writing play with a general appeal and an evident meaningl he could not afford to let meanings be shadowy and only resurface in classrooms centuries later
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare wrote about how many plays
35
He wrote two long narrative poems
“Venus and Adonis” and “The Rale of Lucrece”
Because of his treason, Macbeth forfeits
sleep, love and honor.
The witches’ statement that “fair is foul, and foul is fair” introduces what?
one of the major themes. (That of deceiving appearances of reversal of values)
The primary function of the porter in act 2 is to provide
comic relief to the audience.
Lady Macbeth is prevented from murdering Duncan herself because
in his sleep, he looks like her father.
The appearance of Banquos ghost at the banquet in his honor is an example of
situational irony.
