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Anglo Saxon Britain
-germanic peoples who came to Britain (Angles, Saxons, Jutes)
-Old English (Beowulf) |
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Norman Invasion
-King Edward dies, 3 way battle for throne ensues
-Battle of Hastings = William Duke of Normandy declared King of England |
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Revolution in Printing
-Introduction of the Print Press (Le Marte d'Arthur) |
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Martin Luther - Reformation
-rebels against Catholic Church = Protestant religions |
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Elizabeth I (Protestant)
-her defeat of the Spanish Armada |
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James I
-Shift from Tudors to Stuarts |
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English Civil War
-Roundheads (puritans) vs Royalists
-Puritans shut down theatres (no plays) |
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Charles I
-Britain = commonwealth |
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The Restoration
-Charles II restores all English monarchies
-theatres reopen, changes in literature (see Restoration Literature) |
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| Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in closely connected words |
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| Course of thought/meaning that runs throughout a written/spoken work. |
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| Formation of a word based on sound associated with it. |
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| pause near middle of line |
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| Stimulating ideas and associates of certain thing without directly mentioning it |
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| combination of metaphors and similes that get elaborated through poem, elaborate parallel, extended comparison |
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| Verses that catalogue and describe the various parts of a woman’s body through series of flattering comparisons. |
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| repeated unit or combination of stressed and unstressed syllables (iambic & trochaic) |
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| unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllable ex. Despair. des/Pair |
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| Stressed syllable followed by unstressed. Ex. Treasure. TRea/sure |
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| number of feet in a line of poetry |
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| Book made of sheets of paper that have been printed on both sides and then folded twice |
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| a bok made of sheets of paper that have been printed on both sides and then folded once |
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| false integration; purgation; disintegration (with possibility of future integration) |
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| Disintegration, purgation, integration (resolution) |
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| actors speech/comment that is not intended to be overheard by other characters. |
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| lines written in metrical form; lines of poetry (more formal, royal) |
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| writing without metrical structure; not organized into lines & rhythms (casual) |
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| situation in which the audience shares with the playwright knowledge of which a character is unaware; the character acts inappropriately or in contrast to the actual state of things. |
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| deceptive appearance. Seeming not being. |
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| song, dance, drama (Distraction) |
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| everything will decay, dissolve, and die as time passes regardless of what we do. |
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| a conceit in which a comparison is established between two very dissimilar things (ex. The flea comparing sex to an insect taking blood) |
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Artful uses of language to convince or persuade an audience
Egs. Metaphors, metaphysical conceits, repetition of phrases/concepts |
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| Time flies (latin expression) |
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| Seize the moment, seize the day, live in the present. |
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| two phrases that are parallel in syntax but reversed (in terms of the order of the corresponding works) ex. “so long LIVES THIS and THIS gives LIFE to thee” |
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| exaggeration used for emphasis or effect. |
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| diminish or deride a subject through ridicule. |
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| direct enunciation, critisism |
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: Style of narration in which the point of view is limited to the consciousness of a specific character
The centre of consciousness is thus the character whose attitudes and perspectives are echoed by the narration. Result = judgement. |
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