Brit Lit Exam
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- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- By John Donne
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning Summary
- Leaving his wife to go to France and misses her already
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning theme
- love can't be seperated by a distance
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning Tone
- Reassuring
- allegory
- a narrative work in which characters, settings, and events are symbolic of anstract ideas, and in which the overall purpose is to teach a lesson
- alliteration
- the repetition of consonant sound sat the beginning of two or more words in a line
- allusion
- to make reference to
- aside
- when the character talks to the audience and the other characters on stage can't hear them
- Beowulf epic hero
- beowulf
- blank verse
- unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
- canto
- a section or division of a long poem
- carpe diem
- the though that life is short and to live life to the fullest
- conceit
- a far-fetched metaphor or similie
- elegy
- a serious poem of lament, usually mourning a death or a great loss
- epic
- a long narrative that recounts in grave and stately language the achievements of a hero who usually embodies his societies ideals
- Epics
- Beowulf, the faerie queene, paradise lost, the rape of the lock
- epigram
- a brief, witty, often philosophical saying in prose or verse
- essay
- a short, prose composition that deals with a single topic
- folk ballad
- composed by uneducated people and passed down through oral tradition
- frame story
- a narrative within which one or more other narratives unfold (canterbury tales)
- free verse
- poetry with no fixed rhythm or meter
- heroic couplet
- a pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter
- hyperbole
- extreme exaggeration
- iambic pentameter
- a meter in which there are 5 iambs per line
- in media res
- in the middle of the action (starts with big opening, background info later)
- invocation
- a writer's call for aid or inspiration from a Muse or another spiritual force
- irony
- the awareness of a contrast between appearance and reality
- journal
- a daily record of events kept by an individual who is writing so that other people will read it
- kenning
- an imaginative metaphorical phrase used in place of a simple noun
- lyric poem
- poetry where the speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings
- metaphor
- comparing two totally different things
- mock epic
- a poem that imitates ethic style but makes fun of the hero or society it portrays
- neoclassicism
- authors look of ancient Greece and Rome and stressed the importance of reason, order, hardmony, and moderation. Ben Jonson=father
- novel
- a book-length or longer work of prose fiction
- ode
- lyric poem of irregular line lengths and stanzas, addressing a serious subject and written in a dignified style
- On the memory of my belived master, william shakespeare
- by ben jonson
- On the memory of my belived master, william shakespeare summary
- the speaker is putting shakespeare on a pedastal because of his accomplishments and he continually praises shakespeare
- On the memory of my belived master, william shakespeare theme
- shakespeare becomes immortal through poetry
- On the memory of my belived master, william shakespeare tone
- admiring
- Paradise Lost
- By John Milton
- paradise lost epic hero
- devil
- Paradise Lost tells...
- why satan got kicked out of heaven and what happened afterward
- Paradise Lost tragic hero =
- the devil. he brings on his own downfall
- paradox
- a statement that at first makes no sense but actually makes perfect sense
- parody
- a humorous imitation of another, usually serious work
- pastoral
- a work that depicts the simple pleasures of rural life
- personification
- giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea
- picaresque novel
- a humorous novel consisting of loosely strung episodes about an adventurer or a loveable rogue
- pyrrhic
- in every loss there is a gain. in every gain there is a loss
- satire
- a literary device that ridicules the vices and follies of people or societies in order to bring about the improvement of humanity. this is often done through the use of irony, wit, and derision
- scop
- a traveling minstrel who composed or memorized oral lit and passed it down
- sililoquy
- in a play, the speech of a character alone on stage, telling his/her thoughts to the audience
- similie
- compares things usuing like or as
- sonnet
- a 14-lined poem with a fixed meter and rhyme scheme, usually written in iambic pentameter
- The Constant Lover
- by sir john suckling
- The Constant Lover summary
- the speaker is saying that he is frustrated because he has been with this one girl for 3 days and is usually with a different girl every day
- The Constant Lover theme
- go with the flow
- The Constant Lover tone
- cocky and over confident (player)
- The Diary
- By Samuel Pepys
- The Diary summary
- diary of his life-watched the king's coronation and the london fire and told all about them
- the faerie queene epic hero
- the green knight
- The First Conceit ever
- the compass in a valediction forbidding mourning
- the rape of the lock epic hero
- belinda
- To Althea, from prison
- by richard lovelace
- To Althea, from prison summary
- the speaker is writing how he is in prison but because of his love, Althea, he still feels free
- To Althea, from prison theme
- no matter the circumstances, love will make you free
- To Althea, from prison tone
- optimistic
- To His Coy Mistress
- By Andrew Marvell
- To His Coy Mistress Summary
- the speaker loves his mistress so much that a lifetime isn't long enough to show all the love he has for her and because they don't he wants to take her virginity before somebody else does
- To His Coy Mistress theme
- seize the day, don't let time pass you by (carpe diem)
- To His Coy Mistress tone
- impatient
- To the Virgins, to make much of time
- by Robert Herrick
- To the Virgins, to make much of time summary
- the speaker is encouraging virgins to marry and make love while still young
- To the Virgins, to make much of time theme
- carpe diem, get married and make love before it is too late
- To the Virgins, to make much of time tone
- pastoral and persuasion
- tragic hero
- a high ranking person, distinguished by such admirable traits as integrity, bravery, and strength
- vernacular
- the languages of the people as opposed to latin
- Why So Pale and Wan?
- By Sir John Suckling
- Why So Pale and Wan? summary
- the speaker is speaking to his friend saying if the girl doesn't love him for the way he is then she can go to hell
- Why So Pale and Wan? theme
- don't change yourself to be loved- be yourself
- Why So Pale and Wan? tone
- practical and honest