Literary terms

what was it called when the  puritan influence diminished and English ,orality reached its lowest point

a belief in impersonal God

the stressing of certain syllables or words

the false teaching that the humna mind cannot know whether God and the human soul exists

a narrative in which the characters, places, and events represent certain abstract qualities

the repetition of the same consonant sounds

a reference to mythology, history, or a loterary work

a comparision  of two different things tha may share common charateristics

the opponent or force  in conflict with the protaganist

words addressed to an inanimate object as if it were alive or to an absent person as if he were present

a dramatic effect in which a character directly adresses either the audience or another character

another name for the Neoclassical Age and the Age of Pope

a shirt,  narritive folk song which tells of a single event in an objective manner

an imitation bu a modern peot of the early English and scottish popular ballads

a four line stanza with foir accented iambic syllables in lines one and three

the deterministic doctrine of two American pscbologist  J.B. Watson and B. F. Skinner

unrhymed iambic pertamiter

a unique type of romantic charcter developed by byrin and closelt associatedwith him.

a pause or break in a line of peotry

a popular art form which orifinated in medievalFrance and spread to other contries in the twekfth and thirteenth centuries

lyricists of a lighthearted nature who emphasied the the pleasure of this world

the portrayal of th eimafinary persons who carry out the action of the plot in a novel or a story

the people who perform the action of a narrative novel and play

a play that ends happily

a humorous event or speech ised to provide temporary relief from the intense drama of the play

an elaborate comparison of two things which superficially hav elittle in common

the pseudo-scientific ideas if Charels Darwins and later writers

a belief in an impersonal God who after creating the world left it to rin bu natural laws and who left man to take care of himself by using his intellet

the outcome or resolution in whichall the loose ends are tied up at the end of a play

the doctine that an individuals actions are dtermined by a sequence of causes independent of his own will

the speeches between two or more characters in a play or all the speeches of a play taken collectively

a form of literature written in prose or poetry or a combination of two which relies on action to prtray life and character

a lyric poem in which in which a single characterengages in conversation with a solent listner

the plot in the following sequnce

introduces  the character and the conclift and provides necessary backgound

the events that advance and complicate the aciton

the crisis where the action changes its corse

the final outcome of the tragedy

the resolutioin or typing up of all the loose ends

a melacholy poem which relfects on anture and death

a lodon theater where manu of Skakesspeares plays were perfomend

the protestant reformation in england

alos referred to as the elizabethtan period

a long narrative poem basedm on a series of heroic adventures that are important to the advancement of a certain race or country

originally any brief poem often used as an inscription for monuments or tombs

a work of moderate lenth in which the wrtier tries to develop his own thoughts on some subject

written in the romantic Age

a short tale or anecfite told to teach a lesson

the anitphilosphyof despair propounded by the danish theologian soren kierkegaard

material that introducuces the characters

a short tale in which principal actors are animals it is often used to teach a lesson

the pattenr in a line of poetry consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables

two inaccented syllables followed by an accented one

an acccented sullable followed by two unaccented ones

the most common type of rhythm in English verse

one accented cyllable

two acented syllable

peotry having no meteriacal pattern

an accented syllables followed bu an unaccented one

the deterministic philosophy of sigmund Frued

poets who lived during the rule of King Geotge V

a professional performer who sandg peotry or recited poetry to a musical accompaniment

views about the Bible by a groupof scholary 

a popular meter consisting of five iamnic feet

a bried picture sketch or scene

the use of words which appeal to the sences

poets under the leadership of the American peots Ezra pound

a literary movement around the turn of the twentieth century which restored Irish Nationalism and prduced great great drama and peotry

constrasting what a character says nad what a reader or audince knows to be true

]presenting a discrepamcy between expectation amd fulfillemnt

saying the oppsite of what is menat

metaphorical compound words or phrase tjat refer to persons

a shor poem characterized by emotion melody and imagination