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Brit Lit Test Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anglo-Saxon time | 449AD-1066AD |
| Anglo-Saxon fact | HERO stories were born |
| Medieval period time | 1066-1485 |
| Medieval period fact | rise of middle class |
| Renaissance Period Time | 1485-1660 |
| Renaissance Period fact | means "rebirth" |
| Neo-Classical Period time | 1660-1798 |
| Neo-Classical Period fact | "Age of Reason" |
| Romantic Period time | 1798-1832 |
| Romantic Period fact | goes against the rational |
| Victorian Period time | 1832-1901 |
| Victorian Period fact | industrial revolution |
| Modern Period time | 1901-1965 |
| Modern Period fact | technology advancements |
| Post Modern Period time | 1965-now |
| Post modern period fact | all genre styles |
| Beowulf type | epic |
| Beowulf date | ca600-1000 |
| Beowulf tone | negative |
| frame tale definition | a group of tales unified by a central situation |
| epic definition | a long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a great national or ethnic hero of legend |
| stock epithet definition | a stock phrase inserted to describe or rename a particular person or thing |
| satire | corrective ridicule in literature, or a work that is designed to correct an evil by means of ridicule |
| verbal irony | speaker meaning something other than what is said (understatement, hyperbole, sarcasm) |
| situational irony | a situation violates a readers expectations |
| direct characterization | uses explicit statements to tell the reader about the character (tell) |
| indirect characterization | reveals character qualities by showing them through dialogue, description, or action (show) |
| litotes | form of verbal irony that can take the form of an overstatement |
| kenning | poetic compound that is interesting to the reader/listener; ex: blood=wound dew |
| wyrd | "fate" |
| alliterative verse | uses a combo of stresses and alliteration |
| engender | to come into existence; originate |
| burnish | to make smooth or glossy by rubbing; polish |
| accrue | to come to as a gain, addition, or increment |
| motley | having many colors, variated; parti-colored |
| encumber | to cause to have difficulty in moving or in accomplishing something, burden |
| duress | compulsion by thought or violence; coercion |
| prevarcation | avoidance of straight forward statement of truth; equivocation, evasiveness, misrepresentation; deceit; an instance of this |
| characterization | the act of portraying a character in a narrative |
| tone | the attitude the author has toward his subject |
| Chaucer belief | he thought he had a lot to ridicule in lat medieval English society |
| When Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales | 1387-1400 (died) |
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