WGU Literature History terms
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| show | Augustan Age
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| Writers in this period linked themselves with writers in the age of the Roman Emperor Augustus. | show 🗑
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| Messages or testimony transmitted orally from one generation to another. | show 🗑
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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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| A performance using gestures and body movements without words. | show 🗑
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| show | Peripeteia (Also spelled peripetea)
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| The sudden reversal of fortune in a story, play, or any narrative in which there is an observable change in direction. | show 🗑
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| show | Peripeteia (Also known as peripety)
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| show | Commedia dell'arte
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| show | Commedia dell'arte
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| This influenced European dramatists, particularly Elizabethan writers. | show 🗑
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| show | Dumb Show
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| show | Dumb Show
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| These are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle's Poetics. | show 🗑
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| A play should have one main action that it follows, with no or few subplots. | show 🗑
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| A play should cover a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place. | show 🗑
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| The action in a play should take place over no more than 24 hours. | show 🗑
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| show | Unity of action, Unity of place, & Unity of time
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| show | Comedy of Manners
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| show | Comedy of Manners
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| show | Gothic Novel
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| This refers to a kind of literature that creates a sense of terror and suspense. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Gothic
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| show | Baroque Literature
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| show | Baroque
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| This style used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, and music. | show 🗑
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| show | Baroque
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| show | Baroque
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| show | Baroque
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| show | Baroque literature
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| show | Magical Realism
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| These postmodern writers mingle & juxtapose realistic events with fantastic ones, or they experiment with shifts in time & setting, "labyrinthine narratives and plots" & often they combine myths & fairy stories with gritty Hemingway-esque detail. | show 🗑
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