Final Keyword Flashcards
(22 cards)
Renaissance
Means rebirth: Looking back/moving on from a period of despair or a period of something bad
Late C14-early C17 (reached England in C16)
Sonnet
14 lines Single Stanza Iambic pentameter Love (not always the subject) Volta (turn
Iambic pentameter
Style of writing
Pentameter = 5 stresses / line
Iamb = metrical foot: unstressed STRESSED
One DAY I WROTE her NAME upon the STRAND,
But CAME the WAVES and WASHed IT away
Coterie Audience
The audience is all connected in some way like through interests or tastes
Metaphysical Poets
Use surprise, puns, and paradox
Using a combination a dissimilar images
Aubade
a poem appropriate to the dawn or early morning.]
A morning song
English/Shakespearean sonnet
14 lines
Iambic pentameter
3 quatrains and a couplet
Blazon
“verses which dwelt upon and detailed the various parts of a woman’s body; a sort of catalog of her physical attributes”
Pattern poems
Play with the shape of the poem
Lines of the poem represent the shape of the subject of the poem, often by implying motion
Now also called concrete poetry
Ancient Greek pattern poems; emblems
Pastoral
“a deliberately conventional poem expressing an urban poet’s nostalgic image of the peace and simplicity of the life of shepherds and other rural folks in an idealized natural setting”
Epic
A long verse narrative on a serious subject told in a formal and elevated style and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends on the fate of a tribe, a nation, or the human race
Blank Verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Theodicy
“The part of theology concerned with defending the goodness and omnipotence of God in the face of the suffering and evil of the world.”
Free Will Defense
“The defense is that evils are entirely due to the bad, free, choices made by human beings [and fallen angels] …. It was good of God to create free beings, but bad of them to misuse their freedom. So, the good God is not responsible for the evils of the world, and we cannot use the evils of the world as an objection to believing in Him.”
Ptolemaic model
The earth is the center of orbit and the universe and everything revolves around it
Uxorious
Devotedly attached to a wife… very clingy
Protoevangelium
The first promise that Christ will be the redeemer
Romance
Courtly world
Quest by a knight to win a lady
Chivalry: courage, loyalty, honor, good manners
Set far away
High-born characters
A subtype of the/predecessor to the novel
Heroic tragedy
A heroic play ought to be an imitation, in little, or a heroic poem; and, consequently… love and valor ought to be the subject of it. Tends to end in disaster
Novel
A small tale, generally of love
A law annexed to the code
Colonialism
A system of control, exploitation, and occupation of one territory or country by another
Protestant Ethic
Humans have a duty to work and to not spend money frivolously
Success financially is a sign of religious blessing
