EN 1001 Lecture Notes - Dialectic, Deeper Understanding, Wilkie Collins

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1066 is the norman conquest when the french took over england. Renaissance ( rebirth early modern) 1492-1642/humanism (when art became humanized-nudity first circled in art) (interest in language as a subject) 1900-1945 (1960) modern era (where poetry forms go in the trash- free verse) The basic unit of prose is the sentence or the paragraph. The basic unit of verse is the lines, but verse must include end rhyme, and ictic regularity (decasyllabic). Opposite is dysphemism: hyperbole (exaggeration without the intent to deceive, metaphor and simile (extended metaphor- conceit long. Personification and reification synecdoche (a part becomes a whole-redhead, blonde, etc. ) (take human trait and turn into an object-hands like stone) He ran and ran and then he stopped. Hypotactic (hypotaxis) subordination which, who, because, if, since, however. He ran and ran but then he stopped because he was tired. (this is paratactic and hypotactic, not all sentences have one or the other)

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