situation where characters involved in a conflict engage an audiences

attention and emotions

real life factual events

Novels

Short stories

Essays

Memories

Biographies 

major events and heroic Characters

largeness of subject matter i.e. wars, heros, nation-building)

concerns the experiences of a traveler, or picaro, who much progress through a series of struggles and conflicts and rely on wits in order to survive

"early form" of novel

a work that is linger than a shot story but contains characters of a novel

shorter than a novel but still long

reflects ideas and beliefs that have surfaces in our human consciousness

is the substance that allows us to connect with or relate to

Common themes: Coming of age

 Isolation

 Identity

 Faith

 Love

 Trust

 Hate

refers to the authors attitude towards the subject

Common tones - somber

        romantic

        sinister

        dark

attitude created by the author towards the subject or the prevailing emotions of work reveled through setting, imaginary characters events or other elements

Atmosphere: gloomy

  happy

  fearful

person who opposes the man character of the story

character used to highlight elements of more central characters through contrast

is common type that appears frequently in stories

I, me, my…..direct account from the characters perspective

a speech delivered by a character alone on stage

fixed poetic form consisting of fourteen lines

popularity in the 14th-17th centuries

do not have a set length, but are the longest form and issued in single volumes

 Engage in significant plot, theme and, character development

Brief stories containing fantastical characters and events

Folktales

Fairy tales

refers to the setting of stories in a particular region

    characters

    dialect

    traditions

    history

    geography

    environment

    culture

smaller and address less magnificent pursuits and exploits. Standard

length of 14 lines and the use of a set rhyme scheme and structure.

Work-weary, they stumble to their seats.

Happily, she fills their cups.

Work-weary, they stumble

To their seats.

Happily, she

Fills their cups.

denotes a grouping of lines within a poem

Couplet - two line stanza

Tercet - three line stanza

Quatrain - four line stanza

Sestet - six line stanza

Octave - eight line stanza

common in English poetry

Lambic: un + st (u /)

Trochaic: st + un (/u)

Anapestic: un + un +st (u u /)

Dactylic: st + un + un (/u u)

Pyrrhic: un + un (u u)

Spondaic: st + st (//)

describe poems by the number of feet in the line

Monometer - 1

Dimeter - 2

Trimeter - 3

Tetrameter - 4

Pentameter - 5

Hexameter - 6

Heptameter - 7

Octameter - 8

Nonameter - 9

Decameter - 10

typically done with shorter poems or specific passages and concern analyzing the carious language-levels elements at an up-close and in-depth level in order to understand how the parts come together to reveal meaningful themes. Slow reflective walk through a poem

May Address:

Theme

Form

Voice/Speaker

Rhyme, Rhythm, and Meter

Figurative Language

Symbolism

Imagery

Word Choice

A sonnet consisting of an octave (an eight-line verse) and sestet (a six-line verse). Its  rhyme scheme is abba abba cde cde (the rhyme scheme of the sestet may vary)

Attributed to the 14th century Italian poet by the name of Petrarch….dealt with love

A sonnet consisting of three quatrains (four-line verses) and a couplet (a two-line verses). Its rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg

Because Shakespeare used it so heavily during the 16th and 17th centuries

A form of English sonnet with quatrains following a linked rhyme scheme. Abab bcbc cdcd ee.

16th century English poet Edmund Spenser

Western Roman Empire 476 BCE

• The Orestia

• Poetics

• Medea
• The Trojan Women

• Odyssey
• Illiad

• The Republic

• “Hymn to Aphrodite”

• Antigone
• Oedipus Rex

• The Odes

• Satires

• Metamorphoses

• The Aeneid

• Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (aka Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation)

• Hymn

• The Canterbury Tales
• Troilus and Criseyde
• The Legend of Good Women
• Parlement of Fowles

• The Book of the City of Ladies
• The Book of Three Virtues

• Yvain, The Knight of the Lion
• Perceval, The Story of the Grail
• Lancelot, The Knight of the Cart

• Historia Regum Britanniae (aka The History of the Kings of Britain)

• Confessio Amantis
• The Tale of Apollonius of Tyre
• Vox Clamantis

• Revelations of Divine Love

• Piers Plowman

• The Life of our Lady
• The Fall of Princes
• The Troy Book

• Le Morte D’Arthur

• The Ysopet Fables
• The Legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick

• Delia

• Idea

• The Doubt of Future Foes
• “On Monsieur’s Departure”

• The Tragedie of Antonie
• “A Dialogue between two shepherds, Thenot and Piers”

• “Of Books and Cheese”

• “To Celia”

• The Spanish Tragedy

• Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

• The Jew of Malta
• Hero and Leander
• “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
• The Tragical History of doctor Faustus

• Utopia
• The History of King Richard the Third

• The Unfortunate Traveller
• Summer’s Last Will and Testament

• “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”

• The Merchant of Venice
• Othello
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• “Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds”

• Arcadia
• Astrophil and Stella
• The Defense of Poesy

• The Faerie Queene
• Amoretti and Epithalamion
• The Shepheardes Calendar

• The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania

• Oroonoko

• The Way of the World

• Absalom and Achitophel
• Annus Mirabilis
• All for Love

• “The Apology”

• She Stoops to Conquer
• The Vicar of Wakefield

• “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

• The Rambler
• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
• A Dictionary of the English Language

• The Diary

• Rape of the Lock
• An Essay on Man

• “For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry”

• A Modest Proposal
• Gulliver’s Travels

• “The Imperfect Enjoyment”

• “Upon the Burning of Our House”
• “The Tenth Muse”

• Of Plymouth Plantation

• Letters from an American Farmer

• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

• The Interesting Narrative

• Poor Richard’s Almanac

• Brief and True Report

• Notes on the State of Virginia
• The Declaration of Independence

• Pillars of Salt
• The Wonders of the Invisible World

• “A Short Narrative of My Life”

• Common Sense

• The General History of Virginia

• “On Being Brought from Africa to America”

• Poems on Various Subjects

• “The Day of Doom”

• A Model of Christian Charity

• Wieland

• The Power of Sympathy

• The Spy

• Poor Richard’s Almanac
• The Autobiography

• The Sketch Book

• Notes on the State of Virginia

• Common Sense
• The American Crisis

• Charlotte Temple

• Letters from an American Farmer

• The Contrast

• “To the University of Cambridge, in New England”
• Poems on Various Subjects
• “On Being Brought from Africa to America”

• Northanger Abbey

• Vathek

• “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”
• “The Tyger”

• “Lara”
• “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
• “Don Juan”
• “The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale”

• “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
• “Frost at Midnight”
• “Religious Musings

• Observations on the River Wye

• Journal in the Lakes

• “To Autumn”

• Glenarvon

• The Monk

• The Mysteries of Udolpho
• The Romance of the Forest
• The Italian: or The Confessional of the Black Penitents

• Frankenstein

• “Mont Blanc”
• “Alastor”
• “Prometheus Unbound”
• “Queen Mab”

• The History of Nourjahad

• Castle of Otranto

• “Tintern Abbey”
• The Prelude
• Guide to the Lakes

• The Land of Little Rain

• “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

• In Darkest England and The Way Out

• Jane Eyre

• “Cry of the Children”

• “Our Indian Fellow Subjects”

• “The Wife of His Youth”

• David Copperfield
• Great Expectations

• Souls of Black Folk

• “Lady Travellers”

• “The Yellow Wallpaper”

• The Odd Women

• “A White Heron”

• “The White Man’s Burden”

• The English Governess at the Siamese Court

• “Minute on Indian Education”

• London Labour and the London Poor

• “Goblin Market”

• Who Would Have Thought It?

• “Of Queen’s Gardens”

• Life on the Mississippi
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• Up From Slavery

• “Miss Grief”

• My Antonia
• “Paul’s Case”

• “The Bridge”