Romanticism
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Blank Verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) |
| Elegy | a mournful poem |
| Imagery | The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing, place, or experience |
| Irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
| Metaphor | comparison not using "like" or "as" |
| Sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| Symbol | an object that is used to represent something else (usually a larger, philosophical and more important idea) |
| Theme | Insight about human life that is revealed in a literary piece |
| Foot | The basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry |
| Meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. (Ends in "ic" suffix) |
| Refrain | a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song |
| Scansion | the analysis of a poem to determine its meter |
| Synaeresis | an audible contraction joining two vowels to create a single syllable |
| Annabel Lee | Poe, 1849 |
| The Raven | Poe, 1845 |
| To My Mother | Poe, 1849 |
| Young Goodman Brown | Hawthorne, 1835 |
| Rip Van Winkle | Irving, 1819 |
| The Ropewalk | Longfellow, 1858 |
| Psalm of Life | Longfellow, 1841 |
| The Cross of Snow | Longfellow, 1884 |
| Thanatopsis | Bryant, 1821 |
| Self-Reliance | Emerson, 1841 |
| Civil Disobedience | Thoreau, 1846 |
| Walden | Thoreau, 1845 |
| Romantic Literature | 1790-1840 |
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