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Literary Terms
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100
Restoration Literature refers to what historical event?
What is the Restoration of the Monarchy, 1660?
100
The doctrine of life held by many Restoration and eighteenth-century rakes--both fictional and real--is known as:
What is the Rake's Creed?
100
When a text calls attention to itself as a text; when it tries to persuade the reader that it is a real document.
What is textuality?
100
This author, famously very close to William Wordsworth, wrote both forms of "nature poetry": the familiar and the supernatural.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
100
Darker form of poetry popular for it's reversal of typical romantic themes. Focused around awe and terror.
What is Gothic Poetry?
200
Romantic Literature is the only kind of literature classified in this way.
What is a literary/artistic movement?
200
A mode of first-person narration wherein thoughts, feelings, and circumstances are conveyed through letter or diary:
What is epistolary form?
200
When one examines his/her own thoughts/feelings in literature
What is introspection?
200
This sad, sickly author famously declared his dying state when he coughed up blood, and died believing his name would be "written in water."
Who is John Keats?
200
"A sub-genre of poetry that seeks to record the thoughts and feelings emerging from a specific moment; the feelings evoked tend to be extreme but personal."
What is the lyric?
300
This literary movement emerged during the "Age of Revolution."
What is Romanticism?
300
The Three "I's" of Romanticism consist of:
What is Intuition, Individuality, Imagination?
300
When social class is determined by birth and implies virtue, honor, and status.
What is Aristocratic Ideology?
300
Formerly a master printer, this author used his technical knowledge of print to give his works textuality.
Who is Samuel Richardson?
300
A narrative form of poetry that used repetition to aid in memorization, since this was a form passed down orally
What is the Ballad?
400
These authors believed the purpose of poetry was to evoke social change: “The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is Poetry."
Who are the Romantic Poets?
400
A literary device that conveys events as though they are occurring at the moment of reading:
What is "to-the-moment"?
400
"Dramatic character in Restoration Comedies; typically an aristocratic male who takes advantage of women for his own personal gain."
What is a Rake?
400
In his famous "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," this author stated that his new form of poetry would represent the language and experiences of the common man.
Who is Williams Wordsworth?
400
The efforts to portray real life in a fictional form.
What is Literary realism
500
"The Two Nations," a term used by later Victorian writers to describe the growing and vast divide between the growing merchant class and the working poor. This divide can be attributed to what major historical event?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
500
"A text that purports to document the authentic truth" (McKeon).
What is Claim to Historicity?
500
"Detaches honor as virtue from the aristocratic male and reattaches it to commoners, including women"; in doing so, it redefines honor/worth" (McKeon).
What is Progressive Ideology?
500
This author's works clearly represent the changing cultural ideals of English society that were brought on by the restoration of the monarchy, and Charles II's return from France.
Who is the Earl of Rochester?
500
Individualism and alienation, focused on a specific moment in time, supernatural, emotional experience in nature.
What are Tenets of Romantic poetry?