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Undergraduate 3
12/06/2010

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Sumptuary laws
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created by powereful higher ups to limit the rise of the middle class by adding taxes and uniforms; it’s meant to stop people from rising up
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Frame Narrative
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tons of stories that relate to one overarching theme
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Contrapuntal
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reading against the grain
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Exemplum
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for example
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Poulter’s Measure
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hexameter, heptameter, couplet
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Pastoral
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Opposite of epic -> return to nature
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Blank Verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Heroic Couplet
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rhymed couplets to STICK IN YOUR HEAD
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Ambivalence
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anxiety vs action canceling out
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Horatian Satire
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Gentle satire
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Juvanalian satire
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aggressive satire
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Gothic
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Precursor to horror
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Children
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perfection because they’re innocent and spontaneous; pur=sublime
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Lyrical Ballad
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By Wordsworth and Coleridge -> thought poetry should be a “spontaneous overflow of feeling”
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Ode
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dedication to an object that catches the eye
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Trope
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continuing motif
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Ottava rima
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Suicidal Ambivalence
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good things to live for AND bad things
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Byronic Hero
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Rosarch
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Gothic Magnetism
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People being drawn to the darker side of things (a Byronic hero is this)
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Panopticon
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Bentham’s prison idea; circular tower in the middle where someone may or may not be watching the prisoners -> paranoia
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Orientalism
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Orient doesn’t exist as we think it does (flying carpets, genies, etc); but our thoughts exist SO STRONGLY that the Orient became our ideas. We focus on the mysticallity of the places, and not reality.
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Hybridity
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What’s left over when a colonized person meets a colonized person
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Impressionism
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Seeing something as the narrator/main person sees it -> their impression of the object/idea, maybe not the actual way the object is. Subjectivity > objectivity
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Mirror Moment
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A moment in a story when a character sees themselves in a different light due to some circumstance in a movie
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