Introduction to Literary Studies

• Looks similar but sounds different (move - dove) 

• Less perfect than true rhymes 
  • assonance: connects two words by identical vowels (foam - moan) 
  • consonance: connects two words by identical consonants ( loads - lids) 

• Binnenreim: "East, west, home's best"

• Couplet (Paarreim): aa bb
• envelope pattern (umarmend): abba 
• tail rhyme (Schweifreim): abcabc 

• Lawyers in Italy (Sicily in 13th century) 

Francesco Petrarca

Love as a paradox disease, as an irritation 

• England in the 16th century 

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• 2 quatrains (octave)  
• two tercets (sestet) 

• Main concern usually about love
  • "Love is blind" (image of Cupid) 
  • the problematic gap between ideal und reality when it comes to the person you love 
• "Tempus fugiti" (time flies) 
  • literary works will endure, they are the only permanent monument a person can leave
• Awareness of cultural / historical context and ideas (topoi) current at the time 
  • time, chance, aging, lust, absence, infidelity, 

• 14 lines
  • Each containing ten syllables
• iambic pentameter
• 3 quatrains
• 1 heroic couplet 
• abab, cdcd, efef, gg 

Comes from the Greek word "dran" (to do / to act). 

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• Multiple media in one 

• Meant to be read, rather than performed 

• 1 person talks 

2 people talk 

Multiple people talk 

Characters talk to themselves or the audience, not the other characters 

• (Internal vs. External communication): other characters don't hear what has been said, only the audience 

Dialogue in brief, alternate lines, as in Ancient Greek drama 

• "Verbal scenery" - description of the surroundings
• props and stage design
• illusion of the forth wall
• illusionism "willing suspension of disbelief" vs. Anti-illusionism (narrator, chorus, intrusion of text, de- familiarization) 

Blazon: French for “coat-of-arms” or “shield.” A literary blazon (or blason) catalogues the physical attributes of a subject, usually female. 

Part of a text like a poem where somebody talks about body parts. 

Courtyard with galleries on three sides (often in red-light districts) 

• Apron stage 
• tiring house (section of theatre reserved for the actors) 
• galleries (balcony) 
• pit (where the groundlings stand) 

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