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Terminology List #3
Literary Terms/Themes/Movements
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English
12th Grade
10/08/2008

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Apollonian vs. Dionysian
Definition
- Derived from Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus
- Used by Nietzsche in terms of drama in THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY
- When the urge for order and the urge for disorder clash, dramatic conflict ensues
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Beat Poetry
Definition
- Poetry from the 1950s, esp. San Francisco
- Some famous beat poets: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
- marked by anti-establishmentarian attitudes and idiosyncratic/slangy language
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Bildungsroman
Definition
- Coming of age novel
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Catalogue
Definition
- A list in a poem or in prose
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Cockeny Rhyming Slang
Definition
- Table and chairs for stairs
- Trouble and strife for wife
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Dadaism
Definition
- Anti-everything, nihilist (no objective meaning in anything), free, anti-tradition, collage, and unrelated randomness
- Movement in Zurich, originated around 1916 by Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, and more
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Deux ex Machina
Definition
- God from a machine
- An unexpected, intervening force resolves everything
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Didactic
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- That which teaches
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Epanalepsis
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- Repetition after an intervening phrase
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Epistolary Novel
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