Lectures and Lessons
This English poet and intellectual wrote the epic poem Paradise Lost in 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost. This work is written in blank verse and including over ten books.
Who is John Milton?
This literary device is the use of letters to convey details of a story.
What is Epistolary?
An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster.
Calamity
This word means burial
What is internment?
This literary device is like a story within a story. The outer parts of the narrative provide context, introduce characters, or serve as a means of organizing and connecting the inner stories.
What is a frame tale?
This English poet lived in the Lake District and wrote the poem "The Daffodil".
Who is William Wordsworth?
A state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; daydreams.
What are reveries?
A sign or warning that (something, especially something momentous or calamitous) is likely to happen. A prediction.
What is Portend?
This American writer studied comparative mythology and comparative religion and invented The Hero's Journey.
Who is Joseph Campbell?
This spot on the hero's journey is the point of greatest challenge and must undergo a profound transformation to emerge.
What is the abyss?
To be weary or listless and pale from fatigue.
What is languid?
An extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property.
Conflagration
This brand of justice of social justice believes in giving resources unequally based on what each person deserves
What is Merit-based justice?
Romantic writers were drawn to this period of the past as a source of inspiration, due to its connection to a more authentic way of life.
What is the Medieval Period?
To have an inclination to laziness
What is indolence?
A strong dislike, distaste, or loathing
Repugnance
This form of justice believes there is no good to be found in vindictively causing pain to wrongdoers and used rehabilitation and restorative justice instead.
What is welfare maximization?
This author wrote The Castle of Otranto which is considered the beginning of the Gothic literary Period.
Who is Horace Walpole?
Involving much blood or causing much bloodshed.
What is sanguinary?
Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering.
Imperious