*Means that these works are either italicized or underlined
5088755373 | Beowulf* (author) | Christian monk | 0 | |
5088755374 | Beowulf* (time period) | Middle Ages | 1 | |
5088755375 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (author) | The Pearl poet | 2 | |
5088755376 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (time period) | Middle Ages | 3 | |
5088755377 | The Canterbury Tales* (author) | Chaucer | 4 | |
5088755378 | The Canterbury Tales *(time period) | Middle Ages | 5 | |
5088755379 | Everyman* (author) | Anonymous | 6 | |
5088755380 | Everyman* (time period) | Middle Ages | 7 | |
5088755381 | The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (author) | Raleigh | 8 | |
5088755382 | The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (time period) | Renaissance | 9 | |
5088755383 | The Nymph's Reply (author) | Marlowe | 10 | |
5088755384 | The Nymph's Reply (time period) | Renaissance | 11 | |
5088755385 | As You Like It (author) | Shakespeare | 12 | |
5088755386 | As You Like It (time period) | Renaissance | 13 | |
5088755387 | Hamlet (author) | Shakespeare | 14 | |
5088755388 | Hamlet (time period) | Renaissance | 15 | |
5088755389 | The Flea (author) | (John) Donne | 16 | |
5088755390 | The Flea (time period) | Commonwealth | 17 | |
5088755391 | Song (author) | (John) Donne | 18 | |
5088755392 | Song (time period) | Commonwealth | 19 | |
5088755393 | Break of Day (author) | (John) Donne | 20 | |
5088755394 | Break of Day (time period) | Commonwealth | 21 | |
5088755395 | A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning (author) | (John) Donne | 22 | |
5088755396 | A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (time period) | Commonwealth | 23 | |
5088755397 | Holy Sonnet 10 (author) | (John) Donne | 24 | |
5088755398 | Holy Sonnet 10 (time period) | Commonwealth | 25 | |
5088755399 | Meditation 17 (author) | (John) Donne | 26 | |
5088755400 | Meditation 17 (time period) | Commonwealth | 27 | |
5088755401 | To My Book (author) | (Ben) Jonson | 28 | |
5088755402 | To My Book (time period) | Commonwealth | 29 | |
5088755403 | To John Donne (author) | (Ben) Jonson | 30 | |
5088755404 | To John Donne (time period) | Commonwealth | 31 | |
5088755405 | On my First Son (author) | (Ben) Jonson | 32 | |
5088755406 | On my First Son (time period) | Commonwealth | 33 | |
5088755407 | Song to Celia (author) | (Ben) Jonson | 34 | |
5088755408 | Song to Celia (time period) | Commonwealth | 35 | |
5088755409 | The Altar (author) | (George) Herbert | 36 | |
5088755410 | The Altar (time period) | Commonwealth | 37 | |
5088755411 | Easter Wings (author) | (George) Herbert | 38 | |
5088755412 | Easter Wings (time period) | Commonwealth | 39 | |
5088755413 | To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (author) | (Robert) Herrick | 40 | |
5088755414 | To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (time period) | Commonwealth | 41 | |
5088755415 | To His Coy Mistress (author) | (Andrew) Marvell | 42 | |
5088755416 | To His Coy Mistress (time period) | Commonwealth | 43 | |
5088755417 | To Lucasta, Going to War (author) | Lovelace | 44 | |
5088755418 | To Lucasta, Going to War (time period) | Commonwealth | 45 | |
5088755419 | To Althea, from Prison (author) | Lovelace | 46 | |
5088755420 | To Althea, from Prison (time period) | Commonwealth | 47 | |
5088755421 | Paradise Lost* (author) | (John) Milton | 48 | |
5088755422 | Paradise Lost* (time period) | Commonwealth | 49 | |
5088755423 | Marriage a la Mode (author) | Hogarth | 50 | |
5088755424 | Marriage a la Mode (time period) | Restoration | 51 | |
5088755425 | An Essay on Dramatic Poesy (author) | Dryden | 52 | |
5088755426 | An Essay on Dramatic Poesy (time period) | Restoration | 53 | |
5088755427 | A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day (author) | Dryden | 54 | |
5088755428 | A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day (time period) | Restoration | 55 | |
5088755429 | Essay on Man (author) | Pope | 56 | |
5088755430 | Essay on Man (time period) | Restoration | 57 | |
5088755431 | Essay on Criticism (author) | Pope | 58 | |
5088755432 | Essay on Criticism (time period) | Restoration | 59 | |
5088755433 | A Modest Proposal (author) | Swift | 60 | |
5088755434 | A Modest Proposal (time period) | Restoration | 61 | |
5088755435 | A Diary (author) | Pepys | 62 | |
5088755436 | A Diary (time period) | Restoration | 63 | |
5088755437 | Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (author) | Gray | 64 | |
5088755438 | Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (time period) | Restoration | 65 | |
5088755439 | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (author) | Gray | 66 | |
5088755440 | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (time period) | Restoration | 67 | |
5088755441 | The Life of Samuel Johnson* (author) | Boswell | 68 | |
5088755442 | The Life of Samuel Johnson* (time period) | Restoration | 69 | |
5088755443 | The Vanity of Human Wishes (author) | Johnson | 70 | |
5088755444 | The Vanity of Human Wishes (time period) | Restoration | 71 | |
5088755445 | A Dictionary of the English Language* (author) | Johnson | 72 | |
5088755446 | A Dictionary of the English Language* (time period) | Restoration | 73 | |
5088755447 | Tom Jones* (author) | (Henry) Fielding | 74 | |
5088755448 | Tom Jones* (time period) | Restoration | 75 | |
5088755449 | epic | long narrative poem that is oral in style based on a serious subject told in formal elevated language and is centered around a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, a nation, or the entire human race | 76 | |
5088755450 | epic hero (characteristics) | privileged male, warrior, or warrior ruler | 77 | |
5088755451 | epic hero (3 traits) | protection, reputation, sapientia (wisdom/knowledge) et fortitudo (strength/courage) | 78 | |
5088755452 | epic hero (3 paradoxes) | hero and his foe share many traits, often acts against his own people, liminal figure (crosses thresholds/borders) | 79 | |
5088755453 | metaphysical | beyond the real | 80 | |
5088755454 | metaphysical poets | group of 17th century poets who share common characteristics of intellectual wit, learned imagery, subtle images, elaborate stylistic maneuvers (including metaphysical conceit) | 81 | |
5088755455 | metaphysical conceit | extended metaphor/simile that compares 2 unlike or unusual, paradoxical images | 82 | |
5088755456 | cavalier poets | group of 17th century poets who share common characteristics of direct and colloquial language expressive of a highly individual personality, and their enjoyment of the casual, amateur, affectionate poem written by the way (accidental, occasional) | 83 | |
5088755457 | epigram | brief, witty, incisive poems of personal invective, often with a surprise turn at the end | 84 | |
5088755458 | concrete/pattern/ shape/emblematic poetry | use of radically reduced language typed or printed in such a way as to force the visible text into an object | 85 | |
5088755459 | eponymous | mythical, historical person or thing after which a tribe, city or idea is named | 86 | |
5088755460 | epistle | a letter | 87 | |
5088755461 | diary | a daily, written record of a person's own experiences, thoughts, etc. | 88 | |
5088755462 | philosophical essay | a work of verse/prose that examines the principles underlying conduct, thought, and the nature of the universe. | 89 | |
5088755463 | heroic couplet | decasyllabic, iambic pentameter couplet that begins and completes an idea with maximum conciseness and maximum complexity | 90 | |
5088755464 | novel | Long fictional prose narrative with a complex plot about feelings, motives, etc., of a group of characters, which is unfolded by the actions, speech, and thoughts of the characters. | 91 | |
5088755465 | biography | an account of a person's life written by another | 92 | |
5088755466 | dictionary | a reference work with an alphabetized list of words with definitions and other information | 93 | |
5088755467 | lyric poetry | fairly short poem which expresses a state of mind or process of perception, thought, and feeling; also has musical qualities | 94 | |
5088755468 | literary criticism | critical consideration of a literary work | 95 | |
5088755469 | satire | literary art that aims to expose the vices, follies, or flaws of a person or group of people by making them seem ridiculous (visual, prose, verse) | 96 | |
5088755470 | elegy | a formal and sustained lament in verse, upon the death of a person, usually ending in a consolation | 97 | |
5088755471 | panegyric | formal public speech written in verse delivered in praise of someone | 98 | |
5088755472 | epigram | a brief, witty, incisive poem of personal invective, often with a surprise turn at the end and sometimes with satire | 99 | |
5088755473 | dyad | a poem that has a specific speaker addressing a specific audience that is not the reader | 100 | |
5088755474 | aventgarde | description given to someone that does something before Romantic Age but on a subject of the Romantic Age | 101 | |
5088755475 | ode | a long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style, and elaborate in its stanzaic structure | 102 | |
5088755476 | didactic poem | poem that teaches a lesson/moral | 103 | |
5088755477 | philosophy | investigation of the nature, causes, and principles of reality, knowledge or values | 104 | |
5088755478 | masculine rhyme | a rhyme in which the accented vowel sound is the final syllable | 105 | |
5088755479 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel is either the second or third last syllable of the words involved | 106 | |
5088755480 | picaresque | of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero | 107 | |
5088755481 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds in a line of poetry | 108 | |
5088755482 | elegaic | tone of this poem is about death/celebration of life | 109 | |
5088755483 | synechdoche | a part of something used to signify something whole | 110 | |
5088755484 | metonymy | a change of name, one thing is applied to another thing it is closely associated with | 111 | |
5088755485 | kenning | a compound of two words used in place of one | 112 | |
5088755486 | litote | an extreme ironic understatement | 113 | |
5088755487 | symposium | many different social classes come together | 114 | |
5088755488 | frame tale | many stories put together into a main frame | 115 | |
5088755489 | fabliau | comic bawdy contemporary tale about the urban middle class | 116 | |
5088755490 | medial caesura | a pause in the middle | 117 | |
5088755491 | german long line | two words alliterate with the first word after the medial caesura | 118 | |
5088755492 | bob and wheel | first sentence (one stress) that sets off four other sentences (3 stress); medieval poetic device | 119 | |
5088755493 | allusion | reference to previous work of art or historical event | 120 | |
5088755494 | troth | verbal pact or agreement | 121 | |
5088755495 | decasyllabic couplets | 2 consecutive end rhymes | 122 | |
5088755496 | roman d' antiquite | ancient romance genre, adventure | 123 | |
5088755497 | quite | to one up or best someone | 124 | |
5088755498 | alliterative poem | poem with alliteration as its main literary device | 125 | |
5088755499 | alliterative courtly (quest) romance | usually knights leave, learn, encounters near death experience, goes back to castle | 126 | |
5088755500 | tragedy | an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and possessing magnitude; written in embellished language; must be acted, not narrated; and affecting through pity and fear, the catharsis of such emotions | 127 | |
5088755501 | catharsis | purgation and purification | 128 | |
5088755502 | tragic hero | a wealthy man who is not pre-eminent in virtue and justice, nor does he fall through vice and depravity, but falls due to some hamartia | 129 | |
5088755503 | hamartia | mistake, miscalculation | 130 | |
5088755504 | motif | repeated symbol that directly relates to themes | 131 | |
5088755505 | elision | reduce number of syllable and add an apostrophe to fit a certain meter | 132 | |
5088755506 | irony | something happens that is the opposite of what is expected | 133 | |
5088755507 | dramatic irony | audience knows something characters do not | 134 | |
5088755508 | verbal irony | saying the opposite of what is meant | 135 | |
5088755509 | situational irony | an outcome is the opposite of what is expected | 136 | |
5088755510 | comic relief | a break from serious or tragic events with comedy, also heightens tragedy afterwards that follows | 137 | |
5088755511 | blank/free verse | poetry with no set rhyme scheme or mere, unrhymed iambic pentameter | 138 | |
5088755512 | foil | character set next to protagonist that in comparison we see things we had not seen before | 139 | |
5088755513 | pastoral poetry | deliberately convention poem expressing an urban poets nostalgic image of the peace and simplicity of rural folk in an idealized natural setting | 140 | |
5088755514 | allegory | means something on a literal level but also symbolic level | 141 | |
5088755515 | sonnet | 14 line poem in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme | 142 | |
5088755516 | history | chronological record of events as of the life of a people or development of people including explanation of commentary on to those events | 143 | |
5088755517 | foundling | infant of unknown parentage that has been found abandoned | 144 | |
5088755518 | epitaph | a quotation at the beginning of a work of literature setting forth a theme or relating to the theme | 145 |