WGU Literature History terms
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| A period of British literature beginning in 1700 and ending in 1745. | show 🗑
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| show | Augustan Age
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| show | Augustan Age
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| show | Oral Tradition
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| The messages or testimony are verbally transmitted in speech or song and may take the form, for example, of folktales, sayings, ballads, songs, or chants. | show 🗑
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| show | Pantomime
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| A performance using gestures and body movements without words. | show 🗑
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| show | Peripeteia (Also spelled peripetea)
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| In tragedy, this is often a change from stability and happiness toward the destruction or downfall of the protagonist. | show 🗑
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| show | Peripeteia (Also known as peripety)
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| show | Commedia dell'arte
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| This is a form of comedy which emerged in Italy in the mid-sixteenth century that usually involved love intrigues, stock characters, and a mostly improvised dialogue surrounding a scenario. | show 🗑
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| This influenced European dramatists, particularly Elizabethan writers. | show 🗑
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| These mimed scenes before a play or before each act in a play summarized or foreshadowed the coming events of the plot. | show 🗑
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| show | Dumb Show
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| show | Classical Unities
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| show | Unity of action
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| show | Unity of place
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| The action in a play should take place over no more than 24 hours. | show 🗑
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| What are the Classical unities or three unities? | show 🗑
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| A form of high comedy, usually about love, that relies on intellectual rather than physical comedy and is meant to appeal to a "cultivated" audience. | show 🗑
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| show | Comedy of Manners
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| show | Gothic Novel
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| show | Gothic
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| This can be characterized by its use of claustrophobic and confining spaces, macabre and medieval-based settings, and gloomy moods. | show 🗑
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| Another feature is its recurring use of dark, threatening, violent forces which often trap virtuous young heroines. | show 🗑
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| A period of literature (in Germany, c.16001720) marked by an acute sense of polarity and inner tension - illustrated by the joys and pains of earthly existence vs. transcendental yearning. | show 🗑
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| This is both a period and the style that dominated it. | show 🗑
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| show | Baroque
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| show | Baroque
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| This influence on poetry was expressed by Euphuism in England, Marinism in Italy, and Gongorism in Spain. | show 🗑
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| show | Baroque
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| show | Baroque literature
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| show | Magical Realism
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| show | Magical Realism
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