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limerickaabba ✔✔light of whimsical poetry. form of five anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme of
alliteration ✔✔repetition of initial consonant sounds
anapestic meter ✔✔meter that is composed of feet that are short-short long or UU/
anaphora ✔✔repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of several clauses.
assonance ✔✔repetition of the same sound in words close to one another.
caesuraspecific metrical patterns. ✔✔A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to
conceitanalogy between seemingly dissimilar objects ✔✔A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising
foot ✔✔a metrical foot is one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (0-4)
iambic foot ✔✔u/
trochaic foot ✔✔/u
dactylic ✔✔/uu
idiomthat make it up ✔✔(n.) an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words
malapropismsimilar sound ✔✔Absurd or humorous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of
metonymysomething that is associated with it ✔✔A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of
100 C.E. - 1650 Medieval and Early Modern WorldQuixote ✔✔Dante's Inferno, The Prince, Don
1650-1800 ✔✔Candide
20th Century ✔✔Things Fall Apart, The Metamorphosis
450-1066 Old English ✔✔Beowulf
1066-1500 Middle English ✔✔Canterbury Tales
1500-1660 Renaissance ✔✔1558-1603 Elizabethan - 12th night, Faustus 1603-1625 Jacobean - Othello, King Lear, Sonnets and John Donne1625-1649 Caroline Age - Paradise Lost 1649-1660 Commonwealth Period 1660-1785 The Restoration and 18th Cent ✔✔Rape of the Lock
1785-1832 Romantic PeriodExperience, Kubla Khan, Ode to a Grecian Urn ✔✔Don Juan, Pride and Prejudice, Songs of Innocence and
1830-1901 Victorian AgeBeing Earnest, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ✔✔Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Importance of 1848-1860 - Pre-Raphaelites Rosettis! 1900- Present ✔✔Prufrock, Orwell 1984, Waiting for Godot
1625-1660 Puritan Period ✔✔Pilgrim's Progress, Compleat Angler
1630-1760 Colonial Period ✔✔Poor Richard's Almanac
1760-1787 Revolutionary Period ✔✔First American Novel - Power of Sympathy by Brown
1828-1836 Nationalist PeriodRaven ✔✔Emerson's Nature, Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow, Poe's The
compound subject, single predicatecompound subject, compound predicate independent clause with two phrases compound sentence ✔✔two independent clauses
complex sentence ✔✔one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
compound/complex ✔✔two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
