SAT Literature: Help and Review 14 chapters | 233 lessons Ch 1. Reading and Understanding Essays in... Ch 2. Interpreting Theme & Meaning in... Ch 3. Figurative Language in Literature: Help... Ch 4. Language and Sentence Structure: Help... Ch 5. Writing Structure & Organization in...
generally focusing on the human relationship to nature in rural environments and painting it in an idyllic light. Pastoral literature has a long history. The word "pastoral" originally comes from the Latin wordpastor, meaning "shepherd" or "herdsman." Virgil, the author of the classical epicThe...
The titleσωτήρ, ‘saviour’, is bestowed on Christ and God in the New Testament and rendered in the Latin translations byconseruator,saluificator,salutificator,salutarisandsaluator. Although these terms convey the same meaning, they are not interchangeable: this study argues thatconseruat...
AP English Lit exam terms If you are gearing up to take the Advanced Placement English Literature exam, you better be able to distinguish between your elegies and your allegories! This list will help. MORE VOCABULARY LISTS Learn with us Learner subscriptions Vocabulary lists Dictionary Test Prep...
1.A literary or other artistic work that portrays or evokes rural life, usually in an idealized way. 2.MusicA pastorale. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latinpāstōrālis, frompāstor,shepherd; seepastor.] pas′tor·al·lyadv. ...
Peter Ure argues that the two indispensable aspects of the poem are Michael and the sheepfold, and that everything in the poem has meaning only as it relates to Michael. Thus it does not matter that we never know Luke's mind or have a justification for his defection presented to us. ...
The banishment of Falstaff has inspired more impassioned debate than any other banishment in Shakespeare. Yet this is an exile anticipated rather than experienced. Nor is its meaning interpreted by the victim himself — Falstaff has almost nothing to say in response. Rather, it is the banisher wh...
In my previous blog, I described the first in a series of three sentences that aid in expressing and communicating the author’s original intent. That sentence, the Historical Theme Sentence, described the meaning of a preaching paragraph in past tense and historical language. ...
The Shepheardes Calender, series of poems by Edmund Spenser, published in 1579 and considered to mark the beginning of the English Renaissance in literature. Following the example of Virgil and others, Spenser began his career with a group of eclogues (s
(n.)). Meaning "of or pertaining to a Christian pastor or his office" is from 1520s. The noun sense of "poem treating of or descriptive of country life generally," usually in an idealized form and emphasizing its purity and happiness, in which the characters are shepherds or shepherdess...