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Some Important Literary Terms in "English Literature II": Allegory
Some Important Literary Terms in "English Literature II": Allegory
Allegory:
Archetype:
Armagedden:
last great battle between good and evil before the Day of
struggle or conflict.
Blank verse:
Catastrophe:
Chanson de geste:
Christian humanism:
In the sixteenth century, most Renaissance humanists
Comedy:
1) Romantic Comedy:
Comedy.
2) Satiric Comedy:
of disposition.
and relies for comic effect on the wit of the dialogue -- often
Courtesy books:
Decorum:
Dithramb:
It forms the model for the choral element in Greek verse, later
this device in his Oedipus the King. The following points are
Electra complex:
Enlightenment:
Epic:
is the Greek warrior Achilles, who is the son of the sea nymph
Epic conventions:
race. Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey, Virgil's the Aeneid,
twelve books.
Essay:
Existentialism(Existential Philosophy):
existentialist writings.
Freytag's pyramid (Dramatic structure):
Gothic:
form, the Great chain of Being is based on the idea that the
the least possible degree, and so merges all into the species
overconfidence.
Homeric epithet:
The fact that the Greeks knew nothing about Homer has led some
origin had been forgotten. They also argue that these two
epics are not the work of one poet, but of generations of poets,
the whole.
Hubris:
Humanism:
and Cicero.
Typically, Renaissance humanism assumed the dignity and
Interior monologue:
Invocation:
Metaphysical conceit:
Mimesis (imitation):
Myth:
generation.
Mythology:
of national heroes.
Noble savage:
It is the idea that primitive men are natural good and that
Novella:
Boccaccio's Decameron.
Oedipus Complex:
child's own sex. This term is named for Oedipus, a Greek king
Parable:
prodigal son.
Parody:
Renaissance melancholy:
Revenge tragedy:
example.
Saga:
Satyr play:
Socratic method:
by logical proof.
Sophists' methods:
Spirit of reverence:
reverence."
Sprezzatura:
Courtier.
Stream of consciousness:
Faulkner.
modern novelist Virginia Woolf, The Sound and the Fury written
or may not exist and with whom they sometimes think they
action, time, and place. The unity of action means that the
to a single location.
Tragicomedy:
tragicomedy.
Transcendentalism:
Trilogy:
revenge.
Vulgate:
of Rome.
of Bible in England.