Literary History
Literary movement in the early 1800's that prioritizes American identity, puritanism, democracy, and Manifest Destiny.
What is Early American (or American Renaissance)?
Renaissance poet and playwright whose notable works include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth
Who is William Shakespeare?
This mnemonic device adds a musical quality to poetry by introducing a pattern of similar sounds at the end of lines.
What is rhyme?
Who is "Bisclavret"?
From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country.
Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," fiction
Medieval literature extensively explores this value, which emphasizes the importance of men (specifically knights) acting in ways that respect God, women, and the lords they serve.
What is chivalry?
Anonymous author of poems such as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "Pearl," "Patience," and "Cleanliness"
Who is the Pearl Poet?
This poetic device features lines with words beginning with the same letter/sound.
What is alliteration?
This character is revealed to be the secret identity of The Green Knight.
Who is Lord Bertilak? (Or just the lord of the castle)
"And further," quoth the lord, "a bargain we’ll make:/ whatsoever I win in the wood is worthily yours; / and whatever here you achieve, exchange me for it."
The Pearl Poet, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," epic poetry
Literary movement beginning at the end of the Bubonic Plague (1340’s) that emphasized rational thought, science, secularism, and nature
What is the Renaissance?
This author, who wrote Gothic short stories such as "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is known as one of the key figures in the American Renaissance.
Who is Washington Irving?
This literary device is the author's stance towards what is going on in the story, which can ultimately impact the mood of the story.
What is tone?
This character is a wealthy Dutch heiress in New York, who is courted by Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones.
Who is Katrina van Tassel?
The monster is difference made flesh, come to dwell among us. It is supposed to be extremely different from us. It is the OTHER. It comes from the outside and the beyond. The monster is different from the culture that created it culturally, politically, racially, economically, and sexually.
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, "Monster Culture: Seven Theses," nonfiction/academic
This form of the English language was used between 1100-1400 AD, and is the original dialect that "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" was written in.
What is Middle English?
This Harvard professor wrote "Prayer for Werewolves."
Who is Stephanie Burt?
This type of poetry explores a narrator's interior emotions and subjective experiences, and is the basis of the music we listen to today.
What is lyric poetry?
This character is revealed to have orchestrated the beheading game in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" in order to test the chivalry of Arthur's Round Table.
Who is Morgan Le Fay?
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 130," lyric poetry/sonnet
This literary genre was invented in the late 1700's, with its name referring to the newness of the form.
This author wrote the academic paper titled "Monster Culture: Seven Theses."
Who is Jeffery Jerome Cohen?
This literary device is defined as a division or contrast between two things that are, or are represented as being, opposed or entirely different, and includes examples such as male vs female, nature vs nurture, fact vs intuition, science vs magic, public vs private, etc.
What is a dichotomy?
This illicit couple from Arthurian romances is frequently cited as an example of the ideological divide between marriage and romantic love in during medieval times.
Who is Queen Guinevere and Sir Lancelot?
...and someone will probably love you for who you are: / then you will know each other’s scents / and nuzzle or lope together. But for / now, you have friends, /who are not going anywhere. Please /stay here.
Stephanie Burt, "Prayer for Werewolves," lyric poetry