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46 Cards in this Set
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Unity of Action
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cause-and-effect chain constructed of each of the incidents in a play
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Incentive moment
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beginnin of the play
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Peripeteia
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reversal of intention
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anagnorisis
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recognition
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hamartia
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tragic mistake or error/flaw
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katharsis
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purgation, cleansing at the end of a show
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Aristotle's Tragic Hero
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"better" than in real life, someone highly renowned and yet not eminently good
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Poetics differ in three aspects..
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the medium, the objects, and the manner or mode of imitation
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characters in tragedies are
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either better or worse than in real life(exaggerated)
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Comedy represents men as
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worse
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epic poetry vs tragedy
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tragedy tries to keep to one day, where as epics can be set in as long of a time span as wanted.
All the elements of an epic are found in a tragedy but not vice versa |
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core of tragedy
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tragedy is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude
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Tragedy is...
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the imitation of an action
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the six parts of Tragedy are
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Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, and song
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Most important part of tragedy
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structure of the plot
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novice writesrs try to.... before....
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work on character before they construct a plot
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Second place in order of importance with tragedy
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character
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plays must have a change
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from bad to good or good to bad
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Deux es Machina
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puley machine that lowers gods
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Milton school's
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St. Paul's School, and Cambridge
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believed a poet must be...
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a person of learning, familiar with ancient and contemporary philosophy, history, languages, and literatures.
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Milton traveled to
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Italy(always admired their language and culture)
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Minor Poems
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poems written by Milton uring his tour of Italy
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2 short books written in the early part of Milton's career
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Comus, and Lycidas
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Comis is...
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a masque
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Milton believed that Human beings have...
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been given the ability and freedom to choose between good and evil and so long as they choose the good they will remain strong and free
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elegy
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celebrates the memory of a dead person; Milton's celebrates Edward King
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pastoral elegy bcauee
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it imitates some ancient elegies by using imagery of shepherds and their flocks.
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elegy celebrates(lycidas)
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a human being's capacity to create something significant, even in a short lifetime
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Milton believed a poet must be... in the life of his time
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active
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milton started publishing...
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prose works in support of the PArliamentary Party
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Some people referred to Milton as a
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puritan
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puritan vs. milton
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shared extreme dislike of kings an bishops, contrasting views on divorce(milton supports) and censorship of the press by the gov (milton is against)
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Milton served...
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in the gov of England under Oliver Cromwell as Latin Secretary
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Milton became
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blind
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Milton wrote.... about his blindness
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On HIs Blindness
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Milton's ideal gov
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a republic in which the most capable, intelligent, and virtuous men would serve as leaders
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Milton was... when King Charles II was crowned
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stripped of possesions and arrested as a traitor
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who saved Milton when he was banished?
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Andrew Marvell
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THought he needed to.... as a poet
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imitate the great writers of the past like the epic poets, and Greek dramatists
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Milton wanted to write aboutton
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King Arthur and the roundtable
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Milton religious views
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he rejected the Roman Catholic CHurch, and the Church of English, and all other sects that existted... bellieved religion involved only God, the Bible, and each individual
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William Blake said this about Milton
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he was on the Devil's party without knowing it
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Milton's was set apart from other epic's
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it wasn't based around all earthly matters
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an epic poet must do 2 things in the begining
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invoke the Mue, and state the subject of the poem
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Epic is written in
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blank verse, unryhmed iambic pentameter
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