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6109691923Formal tendencies used by metaphysical poets to talk about _____ issues.philosophical0
6109693484How is wit often seen in metaphysical poetry?In the pairing of dissimilar objects into the service of a clever, ironic analogy or paradoxical conceit1
6109696706What are 3 important literary devices in metaphysical poetry?1. Wit 2. Irony 3. Paradox2
6109697755Metaphysical poetry is famous for its _____ and _____.difficulty obscurity3
6109698995Metaphysical poems exhibit introspective meditations on what 4 things?1. Love 2. Death 3. God 4. Human frailty4
6109699683literary movementGrouping of writers who share similar aims, years of publication, and base of operations5
6109703502Augustan poets were likely to dress absurdly _____ plots in the outward appearance of _____ poetry for _____ effect.mundane heroic epic comic6
6109706030What is the ongoing subject of Augustan poetry?Human frailty7
6109706966What are the 4 most important characteristics of Augustans?1. Wit 2. Irony 3. Paradox 4. Brevity8
6109709422Augustan poetry is best known for its rhymed, heroic-couplet satire. These pairs of lines in iambic pentameter often produce great _____.forward propulsion9
6109710523What is Augustan poetry best known for?Rhymed, heroic couplet satire10
6109712752What poet should you think of when you hear the term "metaphysical poetry"?John Donne11
6109719945The poems of John Donne are much more realistic about _____ relationships.sexual12
6109721709Metaphysical poetry is a mostly seventeenth-century English poetic mode that breaks with earlier Renaissance ideas about _____.romantic poetry13
6109722781Who were the 2 troubadours?1. Petrarch 2. Shakespeare14
6109724578The troubadours often wrote _____ poetry that placed the object of their poems on a pedestal.love15
6109728237Augustan poets went back to _____ for their inspiration.antiquity16
6109729593Why are Augustan poems so long?They employ the heroic couplet.17
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