Quiz 2 Principles of Lit Study

Elizabethan

(1558-1603) relating to the period during which Queen Elizabeth I reigned in England part of the Renaissance or Early Modern period of English literature known as a period in which English lit blossomed in both DRAMA and POETRY celebrated names: Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne

Jacobean

(1603-25) Relating to the period during which King James I reigned over England 'Jacobean' comes from the Latin form of his name, 'Jacobus' James encouraged writers to seek patronage from him --> associated with one of the period's most important publications: the Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible

poetry

An intensified use of LANGUAGE that involves REPETITION and EMPHASIS It arises when the sound and sense of words are closely united

meter/metre

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables the systematic arrangement of syllables

ars poetica

a poem that explains the "art of poetry" or a meditation on poetry using the form and techniques of a poem

form

the shape or structure of a literary work refers to general kinds of writing (genre), such as ballad, short story, or monologue also refers to specific structures or patterns (fixed forms) found in poetry unique structure of a particular work of poetry or prose

rhyme

two words that have same-sounding endings but different beginnings it is principally governed by sound, though it is linked to how words appear on a page verbal echo/chime