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WGU LIT Periods
Lit Hist/Periods
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Augustan Age | Roman literature AND 18th century neoclassical |
| Cothurni | High thick boots worn by actors in the late classical period |
| Deus ex machine | classical period dramatic technique where a god is mechanically lowered to the stage |
| Dramatic poetry | verse written for the stage from the classical, Renaissance, and neoclassical periods. |
| Epic | long narrative poem popular in the Classical period |
| In media res | Epic poems from the classical period used this technique of beginning a story in the middle. |
| Hero | derived from the Greek epic tradition during the classical period |
| Irony of fate | situational irony popular during the classical period |
| masks | In Latin, personae, used in Greek classical theater, and later in the 17th and 18th centuries for the commedia dell' arte |
| Orchestra | classical period |
| Oral tradition | timeless |
| Pantomime | ancient Roman, Classical |
| Parable | Christian literature ( Classical) |
| Peripeteia | A reversal of fortune, Greek classical period |
| Satyr play | Greek comic play |
| Skene | Classical Greek temporary wooden stage building where actors changed costumes. |
| Commedia dell'arte | mid-16th century medieval form of comic drama which relies on stock characters. |
| Picture frame stage | 16th century medieval playhouses designed to give the illusion of three-dimensional perspective. |
| Proscenium arch | tradition from 16th century where the auditorium is seperated from the raised stage by an archtectural frame in front of the scenery. |
| Romance | Medieval chivalric presentations in prose and verse. Modern 19th century adventurous novels. |
| Troubadours | minstrels of the late Middle ages who sang lyric poems of chivalry and love. |
| Villanelle | Poetry from the Middle Ages that consists of six rhymed stanzas in which two lines are repeated in a precribed pattern. |
| Double plot | also called a subplot familiar in Elizabethan drama (Renaissance) |
| Dumb show | Renaissance mimed dramatic performance. |
| Madrigal | short secular song that originated in 14th century and was popular during the Renaissance. |
| Sonnet | fixed form of 14 lines, usually about love, popular during the Renaissance |
| Nouvelle | french term for novella, Renaissance |
| Tragicomedy | drama that combines tragedy and comedy, Renaissance |
| Unities | the three formal qualities recommended by Italian Renassance literary critics to unify a plot (action, time and place) |
| Comedy of manners | a realistic form of comic drama that flourished in the 17th century (Restoration) |
| Restoration period | 17th and 18th centuries/1660-1798 |
| Classical period | ancient Greek and Roman-1066 |
| Medieval period | 9th-15th century /1066-1485 |
| Renassaince period (Elizabethan) | 1485-1660, late 15th-17th century |
| Closet drama | a dramatic poem or play designed to be read aloud instead of performed, Restoration |
| Gothic fiction | a genre tha creates terror and suspence, Restoration |
| Box set | illusion of scenic realism, Romantic & Victorian early 19th century |
| Burlesque | a broad caricature, parody, travesty, or take off of plays, opera, or current events. 19th century |
| Naturalism | an extreme form of realism, 19th century |
| Realism | attempts to represent life truthfully, usually about the middle class, 19th century |
| Symbolist movement | movement to make literature resemble music, 19th century |
| Arena theater | non traditional performance space that favors no one portion of the audience. 20th century |
| Modern period | 20th century-present |
| Concrete poetry | visual poetry where the picture image is made of the words of the poem. 20th century Modern |
| Confessional poetry | autobiograhy focused poetry, 20th century |
| Cultural studies | field of study focusing on the social power encoded in texts. 20th century |
| Expressionism | a dramatic style that focuses on the dreamlike subjective realm. 20th century |
| Flexible theater | also called black box, seats and set up are moveable. 20th century |
| Metafiction | fiction that constantly explores its own nature as literary creation, 20th century |
| New Formalism | 20th century movement where poets went back to rhyme, meter, and narrative. |
| New Naturalism | 20th century plays frankly depictiong the internal and external forces shaping lives. |
| Surrealism | Modernist movement that tries to organize art according to the irrational dictates of the unconciuos mind. |
| Theater of the Absurd | post WWII European genre depictiong the grotesquely comic plight of human beings thrown by accident into the world. |
| Romanticism | 18th-19th century, 1798-1832 |
| Victorian period | 19th-20th century, 1832-1900 |
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