ENGLISH LITERATURE  Neoclassicism

 orderly, public theme, avoided emotions, artificial and

anglo–saxon
sophisticated society, heroic dramas, action
 Dark-Ages violence, barbarism  Iiterature exercised their intelligence
 time of creativity and dynamic change, arts and crafts, romanticism
communication, tradex
 revolt against science, instead promoted imagination and
 Oral Poetry used to preserve folklore
heritage
 Beowulf
 concerned with the unique and irregular but also looked at
 loyalty to king and kinsmen, action and adventure, little humor,
fresh and lively ways to convey the concrete
heroism
 William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor
 Old English
 Lyrical Ballads
medieval
victorian
 separation of language based on class (Latin, Norman French,
 cannot be characterized by a single style
English)
 novel, they couldn’t be as frank, for every family
 Ballad narrative song, Mystery Plays based on the Bible,
 women novelist, Bronte sisters
Miracle Plays lives of saints
 poets explored new modes of expression , sense of tragedy
 Geoffrey Chaucer Father of English Literature
 few dramatists emerged towards the end
 loyalty to king, honors womanhood, chivalry
20th century
renaissance
 made up of unsophisticated readers
 Elizabethan Age
 romantic illusions were destroyed by the war
 printing presses and publishers, romance, political pamphlets,
 TS Eliot, Butler Yeats intellectually challenging
earliest novels
 novel and short story
 viewed nature as intricate and beautiful, made complex
 after the war novels became darker
analogies within a sonnet
 human relationship
 dramas
 personal experiences, political and social issues
enlightenment  stage to screen
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AMERICAN LITERATURE
sources of the america
FEATURES OF POETRY
line
 Native Americans were diverse in language and culture  words lined in a row
 negotiations not war stanza
 each tribe had rich mythology and folklore COUPLET 2 lines
 human and nature, elements were ancestors or relatives TERCET 3 lines
 first American poet was a woman QUATRAIN 4 lines
 oral transitioned to written CINQUAIN 5 lines
romanticism SESTET 6 lines

 transcendentalism SEPTET 7 lines

 focused on feelings and emotions, intelligence is not only about OCTET 8 lines

sciences SONNET 14 lines

naturalism rhyme

 nationalism
PERFECT RHYME ending sounds of words are the same
 local color
CONSONANT RHYME consonant sounds are the same
modernist
ASSONANT RHYME vowel sounds are the same
 experiment in visual arts, music
HEAD RHYME words start with same consonant
 open endings
EYE RHYME spelled the same but sounds different
 Great Depression
 free verse poetry
ALTERNATE RHYME abab
contemporary
 Women and minority writers COUPLET RHYME aabb
MONORHYME aaaa
ENCLOSED RHYME abba
PUNCTUATION MARKS
meter and rhythm
and C A P I T A L I Z A T I O N  number of syllables per line, systematic regularity in rhythm
 patterns in lines that make it sound like a song mild
 not delivered with strong feelings
FIGURES OF SPEECH
 uses “,”
simile
 as and like  only a part of a sentence

metaphor emphatic
 direct comparison  strong emotion

personification  uses”!”
 giving human qualities to things  can stand as a sentence
apostrophe
 referring to an inanimate object as if it was a person
WORD FORMATION
clipping
SPEECH CHOIR BACK CLIPPING removing the end of a word
 Choral-speaking group that recites poetry and other rhythmic FORE-CLIPPING removing the beginning of a word
literature with unity and beauty, thinking and feeling as one MIDDLE CLIPPING retaining the middle part of a word
COMPLEX CLIPPING removing multiple parts
JAZZ CHANT
 Rhythmic expressions set to a particular tempo or beat LIMO limousine
AD advertisment

RAP PANTS pantaloons

 Words are recited rapidly and rhythmically CHEMIST alchemist

PROM promenade
CLERIC clerical
INTERJECTIONS
TYPO typographical
 part of speech that express strong emotion
FAN fanatic
 can be a word or phrase
DORM dormitory
 can stand alone as a sentence
blending
 call or greet, approve or agree, disapprove or disagree,
 fusing two different words
command
ALPHANUMERIC alphabet numeric
DUMBFOUND dumb confound
CHORTLE chuckle snort
BIT binary digit
MODEM modulator demodulator
WEBINAR web seminar
HAZMAT hazardous material
MOTEL motor hotel
compounding
 two or more words into one word

STIRFRY stir fry

SCRIPTWRITER script writer
SELF-RADIANCE self radiance
LONG-TERM long term
SELF-SERVICE self service
OFFICER-IN-CHARGE officer in charge

acronymy
 word formed from initial letter or syllable of multiple words

ZIP Code zone improvement plan code

SIM subscriber identity module
SCUBA self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
LASER light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation