The Romantic Period 1
This characteristic of the Romantic Period means the cyclical development of human societies. People questioned tradition and society.
Social Idealism
Line 1 in stanza 4 of "Ode to the West Wind": "Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth" is an example of this literary device.
Personification
What is the home of the Bennets?
Longbourne
What type of sonnet is "How do I Love Thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
Petrarchan sonnet
When a speaker is talking to something or someone who is unable to respond, such as: a dead person, a person who is not there, nature, or to an inanimate object.
Apostrophe
This is simple yet powerful language about common subjects. The lines end with quick bursts of emotion and self reflection.
Lyrical Ballad
"Ode to the West Wind" has many breaks between words on a line, this is an example of what?
Caesura
The first eight lines of "How do I Love Thee?" is called a what? When does the poem take place?
Octet/octave. Present.
When one line of poetry runs onto the next without any punctuation.
Enjambment
When the albatross falls from the the Mariner's neck in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," it is a symbol for what?
A simple yet powerful language about common subjects with lines with quick bursts of emotion and self reflection
Lyrical Ballad
Who or what is the speaker talking about in the three stanzas, or paragraphs, of Tennyson's "Ulysses?"
The recurrence of similar consonants sounds in close proximity.
Consonance
The rain in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" symbolizes what?
Redemption
What is the theme of "Ode to a Grecian Urn?"
The complexities and beauty of art and life.
The eyes of every dead crewman.
Anaphora
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of lines of poetry.
Youth and innocence. Wordsworth though that "human nature being born again" defined this characteristic of the Romantic Period.
A Child's Sense of Wonder.
Line 2 in "How do I love thee": "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height" is an example of?
Assonance