Spanish Literature & Poetry Flashcards
Grade 11 · Spanish · Flashcards
Major authors, literary movements, and poetic devices in the Spanish-language literary tradition.
Flashcards
- Cantar de mio Cid
- Oldest Spanish epic poem (~1200); celebrates warrior hero El Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar).
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Author of Don Quijote (1605/1615) — the first modern European novel.
- Culteranismo
- Baroque poetic style (Gongora) with Latinate vocab, classical allusions, elaborate metaphor.
- Conceptismo
- Baroque style (Quevedo) emphasizing wit, wordplay, and compressed intellectual conceits.
- Romanticismo
- 19th-century movement valuing passion, nature, and individual freedom (Espronceda, Becquer).
- Realismo
- 19th-century movement depicting everyday social reality (Perez Galdos, Clarin).
- Modernismo
- Hispano-American movement led by Ruben Dario; values musicality and sensory beauty.
- Generacion del 98
- Spanish writers (Machado, Unamuno) reflecting on national identity after 1898 colonial loss.
- Generacion del 27
- Spanish poets (Lorca, Alberti, Aleixandre) blending avant-garde techniques with traditional forms.
- El Boom latinoamericano
- 1960s-70s Latin American fiction explosion: Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Cortazar, Fuentes.
- Realismo magico
- Magical realism — matter-of-fact treatment of fantastic events within realistic settings.
- La metafora
- Metaphor — direct comparison (X is Y, without 'like').
- El encabalgamiento
- Enjambment — syntax continues across a line break without pause.
- El hiperbaton
- Syntactic inversion — altered word order for emphasis or meter.
- La sinestesia
- Synesthesia — mixing sensory domains in description ('blue silence', 'loud color').
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