sonnet consisting of an octave followed by a volta followed by a sestet (abbaabba) volta (cdcdcd)
What is Petrarchan
100
the qualities of a knight: courage, honor, and willingness to help the weak and protect woman
What is chivalry
100
long narrative poem
What is epic
100
In literature, a word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work or in several works
What is motif
100
A saying
What is Aphorism
200
a group of lines in a poem that forms a single unit
What is stanza
200
a young man of noble birth who as an aspirant to knighthood served a knight.
What is squire
200
where relevant background information is presented
What is exposition
200
a literary style that combines incredible events with realistic details and relates them all in a matter-of-fact tone.
What is magic realism
200
un ryhymed poetry that is written in lambic pentameter
What is blank verse
300
six lined stanza
What is sestet
300
an economic, social, and military system in which vassals, or tenants, pledged their loyalty to a lord, exchanging work on his land or service in his military in return for his protection.
What is feudalism
300
a modern European philosophy that emphasizes the meaninglessness of the outer world
What is existentialism
300
A brief, direct statement that expresses a basic rule of human conduct or a general truth about human behavior
What is Maxim
300
a Persian word meaning “quatrain”
What is rubai
400
an interlocking, three-line stanza form with the rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc ded and so on
What is terza rima
400
loving someone from afar
What is courtly romance
400
run-on lines
What is enjambment
400
is a lesson about life that a story teaches
What is moral
400
a twentieth-century literary and artistic movement that sought to break down the barriers between rational and irrational thoughts and situations
What is surrealism
500
a turn in the 9th line of a petrarchan sonnet
What is volta
500
historically, a medieval European verse narrative chronicling the adventures of a brave knight or other hero who must overcome great danger for love of a noble lady or high idea
What is romance
500
a person – either mythical or real-- from whose name the name of a nation, idea, or term has been derived
What is eponym
500
A broad trend in literature and the other arts, from approximately 1890 to 1940, that reflected many artists' concern over society;s loss of traditional values
What is modernism
500
a modern writing style that tries to depict the random flow of thoughts, emotions, memories, and associations rushing through a character's mind