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Dramatic irony
When we know more than the character
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Formal characteristics of Anglo-Saxon poetry
- Doesn't rhyme
- Alliteration
- 4 stressed beats
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Thematic characteristics of Anglo-Saxon poetry
- Death of substitute
- Feast before battle (Last Supper)
- Heroic boast
- Extreme exaggeration
- Fate (God)
- Community
- Fame
- Loyalty to king (gift giver)
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Abglo-Saxon literary devices
- Kenning
- Litotes
- Synecdoche
- Metonymy
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Kenning
- 2 or 3 word metaphor
- only metaphorical, yopu have to guess the literal (mini riddle)
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Litotes
- You say it's not the opposite
- "not good" when it's really bad
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Synecdoche
- PART to the whole metaphor- usually the most important part.
- "Head count"
- "All hands on deck"
- Hint-- Neck=PART of me
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Metonymy
- Refer to something closely CONNECTED to it.
- "The White House said..."
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Elegiac
- Poem of mourning
- think eulogy
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One Corpse author
Ellis Peters
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Town of One Corpse
Shrewsberry
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Shire of One Corpse
Salop
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One Corpse is set between
- 1138
- Normandy invasion- 1060
- Magnacarta- 1215
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Red herring
Gives you people who look like the murderer, but it's false.
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Father of english lit
Geoffry Chaucer
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Why is Chaucer the father of english literature?
- real, round characters
- microcosm
- iambic pentameter
- rhymed couplets
- frame stroy
- authored
- personna
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Microcosm
- "small universe"
- Society is represented in a small group of characters
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Canterbury tales journey
London to Canterbury
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Personna
- First person narrator disctinct from the author.
- Geoffry Chaucer -> Geoffry Character
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Frame story
A story within a story
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Why do the pilgrims go on a journey?
Pilgrimage to Thomas Beckett's grave, murdered in 1170
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Where do the pilgrims start?
The Tabard Inn
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What city is the Tabard Inn in?
Southwork (Shakspeare's Globe Theatre)
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Mideval romance
- Quest
- Mystical
- Chivalry
- Courtly love
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Strophe
- Instead of stanza
- Unequal lenghts
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Bob
- End of strophe.
- A short line of one, two, or three syllables
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Wheel
- End of strophe, follows bob.
- 4 rhymed lines
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Ballad stanza
Alternates iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter
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Ballad stanza's are usually about
Common people who tend to die. Humorus.
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Renaissance art
Doesn't relect reality, it improves reality.
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Metaphors in sonnets
Each quatrain has a same metaphor with metaphors inside the metaphor
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2 Parts of metaphor
- Literal- what it is. Same in every quatrain.
- Metaphor- what it's compared to. Different.
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Apostrophe
Directly addressing something inanimate.
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Pathetic fallacy
- False feeling. (Moon is sad)
- Puts own feelings into objects in nature.
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Sword and the Stone genre
Parody of a medival romance
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Paraprosdokian
The latter part of the sentence is unexpected, resulting in humor.
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Dramatic irony
- Difference in knowledge.
- You know more than the character,
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Schadenfreude
- "Sorrow joy."
- Joy we get from other's misery.
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Satire
Pokes fun at something.
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Aside
Character talks to himself with others on stage.
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Soliloquy
Character talking to himself alone on stage.
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