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