Neoclassical Period Flashcards
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Romanticism insisted on the greater importance of
1) individualism
2) imagination
3) nature
4) the distant
The belief that human reason rather than revelation or authority is the source of all knowledge and the only valid basis for action
Rationalism
The philosophical view that all knowledge originates in sensory experience
Empiricism
What’s johns Locke’s philosophy that human beings know only what they see, hear, feel, taste, or smell and what they can conclude from reflecting on their sensory experience?
Empiricism
Corrective ridicule in literature , or work that is designed to correct an evil by mean of ridicule.
Satire
What’s satires purpose
To upbraid and warn
A cultural attraction to the art and thought of Ancient Greece and Rome. beginning in 16th century Italy as a result of the sturdy of classical literature
Neoclassicism
A reaction against the cultural climate and the values of neoclassicism .
Romanticism
The attempt in fiction to create an illusion of actuality by the use of seemingly random detail or by the inclusion of the ordinarily or unpleasant in life
Realism
A long , stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of s national or ethnic hero .
Epic
A short, highly compressed poem making a wise or humorous observations and ending with witty twist
Epigram
A standard type of category of literature
Genre
Drama that ends unhappily
Tragedy
Drama that ends happily
Comedy
A witty and often licentious satirical comedy popular during the reign of Charles 2
Comedy of manners
Highly emotionalized and moralized comedy designed to arouse benevolent feelings
Sentimental comedy
A reverence for tradition as a source of authority or values in religion, morality, or art
Traditionalism
Highly emotionalized and moralized tragedy designed to arouse benevolent feelings
Sentimental drama
An 18th century reaction against neoclassicism that anticipated Romanism , in subject matter writers favored the quality picturesque or the pitiful, aiming to arouse humane feelings through scenes of contentment or pathos.
Sentimentalism
A long, highly stylized lyric poem written in a complex stanza on a serious theme and often for a specific occasion .
Ode
As pair of rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter .
Heroic couplet
A poetic foot consisting of two syllables, the second of which is accented - it repeats in a line of poetry 5 times
Iambic pentameter
An invented prose narrative. Whether it is allegorical or not may serve the purpose of truth and virtue.
Fiction
The official poet of a nation or region
Poet laureate