ENGLISH 45B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heroic Couplet, Chiasmus, Caesura
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Hyounhymms have a world that is trapped within their own pov; no critical thinking static . They can only conceive the only world they know. Criticism or questioning is not evident as they live solely by nature: environmental castration; 2) they cannot lie 3) social hierarchy assumed to be rational. Everybody would believe that i said the thing which was not, that i invented the story out of my own herd (2598) Creating fiction is one version of lying or. Pope attempts to describe the great chain of being : He is not interested new ideas: enjoys studying universally" accepted truths. Speaks in opposites, linear fashion (high to low) Pope uses heroic couplet as a rhyme scheme. ---> even variation in rhyme will return to order. Five foot notes in an orderly fashion. Used to stress particular terms; usually read flatly. Another way of creating balance through repetition: order. Spondee - a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.
