Romantics/Transcendental Test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, even, litereary work, or work of art. |
| Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which a speaker direcly addresses an absent peron or a personified quality object, or idea |
| Blank Verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Couplet | a 2-line stanza |
| Iambic | a line of poetry with 5 iambic feet,each containing one unstressed sylable followed by one stressed syllable |
| Quatrain | a 4-line stanza |
| Imagery | the describptive or figurative language used in leterature to create word pictures for the reader |
| Octave | an 8-line stanza |
| Pentameter | 5 feet per line |
| Personification | a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| Metaphor | one thing is spoken of as though it were something else |
| Sonnet | a 14-line lyric poem focused on a single theme. Usually written in iambic pentameter |
| Simile | direct comparison between 2 subjects using like or as |
| Stanza | a group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit |
| Tetrameter | 4 feet per line |
| Trimeter | 3 feet per line |
| Synecdoche | using a part of something to represent the whole thing |
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