english vocab 3

• named for the reign of augusts (27 BC- AD 14) and first third of 18th century.
• ex. ovid, horace, vergil, addison, steele, swift, pope

story told in song passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation; have refrain, incremental repition, four line stanzas with iambic pentameter and abcb rhyme scheme

celtic for "poet;" old english for poet who sang oral poetry in England

eccentric or lavishly ornate in style, music, art or architecture of the 17th century

lapse into ridiculous by a poet aimed at evoking pathos (bathos = bad)

• narrative in which animals and birds speak and behave like human beings ina short tale usually illustrating some moral point
• ex: aesop

• group of american writers of the 1950's residing in San Fransico sharing an anti-rational bias, experimenting in drugs, Whitmanesque style, pacifism, the belief that american society is in a very bad way
• ex: allen ginsberg, gregory corso, jack kerouac, lawrence felinghetti

• kind of writing that follows the development of the hero or heroine from childhood into adulthood/troubled quest for identity
• ex: lord of the flies, all quiet on the western front

extravagantly inflated and grandiloquent diction, disproportionate to its subject (bombastic)

to censer from a literary work those passages considered to be indecent or blasphemous; derrived from Dr. Thomas Bowdler whos published in 1818 The Family Shakespeare

adj; belonging to or suitable for everyday world

adj; readily angered, unruly, irritable

noun; one who knows everything

verb; to oppose succesfully, prevent from accomplishing

noun; to be full, overabunace, excess

adj; widespread absence of restraint

adj; idealistic to an unrealistic degree

adj; offensive or disgusting

adj; making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety or righteousness

adj; pertaining to winter

adj; conceited, immature

adj; describes men in vain appearance or dress