Fabliaux- a comic often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in France. They are generally bawdy in nature and several of them were renowed even by G. Chauceur.
Alliteration- repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in close succession.
Imagery - descriptive language that evokes sensory experience, it can appeal to any of the 5 senses
Kenning - concise compund or figurative phrase replacing a common noun
Litotes - a form of understatement. is a figure of speech in which a certain statement is expressed by denying its opposite. Instead of saying that sb is ver attractive we may say that sb in not unattractive
Simile- a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the word "like" or "as” - as cunning as a fox
Wyrd- is a concept in Old English roughly corresponding to sacred, fate, karma, or synchronicity, inevitable fate
Gnomic Verse- consists of sententious maxims put into verse to aid the memory. Gnosis - secret knowledge.
Understatement -is a form of speech which contains an expression of less strength than what would be expected
Foreshadowing- is a literary technique used by many different authors to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later on in the story
Foreboding - a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil
Epic poem - A long and highly stylized narrative poem celebrating the heroic achievements of its hero. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are usually regarded as the first important epic poems and are considered to define the form, narrative poem, it's written in elevated style and is narrative poem.
Saga - The texts are epic tales in prose, often with stanzas or whole poems in alliterative verse embedded in the text, of heroic deeds of days long gone. Many characters are historical.
Sonnet- a sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme.
English (Shakespearean) sonnet- consists of 14 lines, each line containing ten syllables and written in iambic pentameter, in which a pattern of an unemphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable is repeated five times. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet
Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet- The Italian sonnet was created by Giacomo da Lentini in 1230. Named after Francesco Petrarch, the Italian poet, was introduced into English poetry in the early 16th century by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Its fourteen lines break into an octave (or octet), which usually rhymes abbaabba, but which may sometimes be abbacddc or even (rarely) abababab; and a sestet, which may rhyme xyzxyz or xyxyxy, or any of the multiple variations possible using only two or three rhyme-sounds.
Hapax legomena - word that occurred only once in writing. (Beowulf)
Interpolation - is an entry or passage in a text that was not written by the original author.
Dream allegory (page 15)
Metaphysical Poetry
Pride and Prejudice Movie adaptations
1940 - Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier
1980- BBC Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul
1995 - BBC Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth
2003 - Kam Heskin and Orlando Seale
2005 - Keira Knightely and Matthew MacFadyen