Metaphysical poetry Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

allegory Written in the form of fables, parables, poems, stories or any other form: a complete narrative that conveys abstract ideas to get a point across; an extended metaphor ballad a narrative folk song Brainpower Read More Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:00 / 0:15 Full screen action Not the same as plot: the meaning and purpose of events ambiguity an author intentionally suggest more than one and sometimes contradic...

English Literature CLEP Latest 2023 Graded A heroic couple a rhyming pair of iambic-pentameter lines, first used extensively in English by Chaucer and later developed as a syntactically complete unit, esp. by Dryden and Pope (Ex.: "In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend") terza rima -(tert′sə rē′mə) a verse form of Italian origin, made up of tercets, the second line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the next one (aba,...

American Literature CLEP Exam Verified Correctly!! Metaphysical Poetry - Uses conceits and uses intellectual and philosophical language. Makes abstract comparisons using conceits. ie. John Donne. Michael Wigglesworth - Clergyman who wrote "Day of Doom" and "Meat out of the Eater". He wrote lyrical, theological poems. Puritan. Connotation - the feelings or emotions surrounding a word. (ie. home = pleasant haven) motif - Phase, image, action, that unifies a work of literature by recurr...

ABCTE ELA TEST PREP 63 Questions with Verified Answers DECONSTRUCTION - CORRECT ANSWER METHOD OF ANALYSIS THAT EXPLORES THE UNDERLYING CONTRADICTIONS WITHIN A WORK DRAMATIS PERSONAE - CORRECT ANSWER THE CHARACTERS OR ACTORS IN A PLAY FALSE DIVISION - CORRECT ANSWER NARROWING THE SCOPE OF THE ARGUMENT BY NOT ALLOWING THE POSSIBLITY OF OTHER OPTIONS HAMARTIA - CORRECT ANSWER TRAGIC FLAW APOSTROPHE - CORRECT ANSWER A FIGURE OF SPEECH IN WHICH A WRITER DIERECTLY ADDRESSES AN INANIMATE...

Metaphysical Poetry -->Uses conceits and uses intellectual and philosophical language. Makes abstract comparisons using conceits. ie. John Donne. Michael Wigglesworth -->Clergyman who wrote "Day of Doom" and "Meat out of the Eater". He wrote lyrical, theological poems. Puritan. Connotation -->the feelings or emotions surrounding a word. (ie. home = pleasant haven) motif -->Phase, image, action, that unifies a work of literature by recurring throughout it. A theme or idea in ...

Spain today (politics, economy, geography, culture) - Answer- -*Democracy under parliamentary constitutional monarchy* -*Member of EU* -*Majority Roman Catholic* (religious freedom) -*Tourism* is one of the main sources of income. -Important developers/producers of *renewable energy*, in particular *solar power*. -*strong economy, high quality of life* -*SW Europe, Iberian Peninsula to the south of France and Andorra and to the east of Portugal. It has coastlines on the Bay of Biscay (a p...

TExES English, Language Arts, and Reading 7-12 231 Latest Update Graded A+ You and I/Me "Between You and I" is wrong, "You and I were meant to fly" is correct Less and Fewer Fewer is used when you can count the objects, less is used when you can't Who and Whom Whom is an objective pronoun (An objective pronoun acts as the object of a sentence—it receives the action of the verb. The objective pronouns are her, him, it, me, them, us, and you); it should be used to refer to the object of a...

Arthur Miller - Answer- "The Death of a Salesman" depicted a man whose failure made him feel like an outcast. Alexander Pope - Answer- (1710-1728) "Rape of the Lock", "An Essay on Man", "The Dunciad" Classical Period - Answer- 1200bc - 455ce Forms: lyric poetry, greek drama (tragedy, comedy)(chorus, deus ex machina) Themes: life/death, morality, season changes, political commentary, satire, Greek mythology, Greek wars, Greek Gods, Roman life Homer (Greek) - Answer- The Iliad a...

FTCE English 6-12 Complete Coverage. Latest Update. 100% Verified. Alex Haley - -Post-Civil War to the Present; Roots Alice Childress - -Post-Civil War and Reconstruction; A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich- 1st afro american playwright on broadway Alice Walker - -Feminist/ Women in the US; The Color Purple allegory - -a story with a symbolic meaning used to teach a moral story; an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive ...