Fill in these pages as the terms are assigned; be sure to cite illustrations from your readings.
alliteration
alliterative meter
allegory
allusion
Anglo-Saxon Period
bard
blank verse
bob-and-wheel
chivalric (or medieval) romance
closed couplet
comedy
comedy of manners
conceit
conventions
couplet
courtly love
Enlightenment
epic
fabliau
frame-story
genre
Great Chain of Being
heroic couplet
humanism & Christian Humanism
iambic (pentameter)
kenning
literary canon
lyric poem
metaphysical conceit
metaphysical poets
meter
Middle English Period
morality play
motif and theme
mystery play (sometimes called "miracle play")
mock-epic (mock-heroic)
Neo-Classic
octave
Old English Period
oral-formulaic poetry
pastoral
personification
Petrarchan conceit
Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet
prosody
quatrain
Renaissance
Restoration
rhyme scheme
satire
sestet
scop
Shakespearean (English) sonnet
sonnet sequence (or cycle)
Spenserian stanza
ubi sunt motif
wit