Lit Terms 3

Named for the reign of Augustus when Roman literature was at its height, it is the emulation of the styles of the gentlemanliness and urbanity of such writers such as Horace and by writers such as Pope in the first term of the 18^th century; the term applies to both periods

Narrative poem told in song which has been passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation; its characteristics are the refrain, incremental repitition, standard speeches, a four line stanza with iambic meter, and rhyme scheme (abcb)

Celtic for 'poet'; 'scop' is the Old English name for the poet who sang oral poetry in England

Eccentric or lavishly ornate in style; music, art, architecture of the 17^th century; Bach is a baroque figure

BAD THING. Bathos is Pathos so overdone that it evokes laughter rather than pity.

Narrative in which animals speak and behave like human beings; usually has a moral

American writers of the 1950's; anti-rational bias, experimentation with drugs, Whitmanesque style, pacifism, the belief that American society is in a very bad way

The kind of writing that allows the development of the hero or heroine from childhood or adolescence into adulthood, through a troubled quest for identity

Extravagently inflated and grandiloquent diction, disproportionate to its subject

To censor a literary work those passages considered to be indecent or blasphemous

Belonging to or suitable for everyday world

Readily angered; unruly

Person who knows everything

To oppose successfully

To be full

Wide spread abscence of restraint

Idealistic to an impractical degree

Offensive or disgusting

Making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness

Winter

Conceited, immature

Describes males in vain in appearance or dress