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English Exam 2
Terms/Themes to Know
Question | Answer |
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Pastoral Poetry | Countryside, shepherds, farmers, romanticized, idealized, unrealistic. (Majesty of the countryside) EX:) Marlowe |
Coterie Writing | Circulating manuscript for select audiences - women would often do this - Restoration + 18th Century - could be published with out without consent Audience - Female Friends Felt freer to express themselves than if they had a wide audience |
Carpe Diem | "Seize the day!" EX:) Herrick, Marvell |
Satire | Who: Jonathan Swift (Modest Proposal and Description of Morning), and Shakespeare (Twelfth Night) Why: Improve/Point out faults - Indirectly criticizing |
Female Writers | Lady Mary Wroth "A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love" #77 Margaret Cavendish "A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life Mary, Lady Chudleigh "To the Ladies" Aphra Behn "Ornooko" Mary Leapor "The Headache to Aurealia" Anne Finch "The Intro" |
Metaphysical Poetry | Comparison of unlike objects (Physical and Emotional) EX:) Donne |