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1.Sonnet: a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting 14 lines that are typically five-foot iambic rhyming according to prescribed scheme; also, a poem of this pattern. 2. Enlightenment is used to characterize the main trend of European thought throughout the 18th century. Basically, the Enlightenment advocated a rationalistic and scientific approach to the religious, social and economic questions of the time, and reliance on reason and empiricism rather than on authority and dogma. The goals of the rational individual were considered to be knowledge, freedom, and happiness. 3.Iambic pentameter ：The term describes the particular rhythm that the words establish in that line. That rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables; these small groups of syllables are called feet. The word iambic describes the type of foot that is used. The word pentameter indicates that a line has five of these feet. 4. Drama comes from Greek words meaning to do or to act. A play is a story acted out. It shows people going through some eventful period in their lives, seriously or humorously. The speech and action of a play recreate the flow of human life. A play comes fully to life only on the stage. On the stage it combines many arts those of the author, director, actor, designer, and others. 5. Modernism was a revolt against the conservative values of realism.Arguably the most paradigmatic motive of modernism is the rejection of tradition and its reprise, incorporation, rewriting, recapitulation, revision and parody in new forms. Modernism rejected the lingering certainty of Enlightenment thinking and also rejected the existence of a compassionate, all-powerful Creator God. 6.Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution.In part, it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction agai