Literature Terms: Poetry
This refers to the repetition of the beginning sounds of words.
What is alliteration
The Romantic movement writers discuss the appreciation of what?
What is Nature?
This is using exaggeration for effect
What is hyperbole?
Reference to a prior work or historical event
What is an allusion
What device is used in the following line, we must fight, I repeat, we must fight!"
What is repetition?
This device appeals to the five senses
What is imagery?
This element of Romanticism involves this type or use of language, which is the way many Romantics strove to use language.
What is simplicity?
This is a comparison that speaks of one thing as though it were another, such as "her eyes were flawless diamonds"
What a metaphor?
The central message of a literary work
What is theme?
This is the emotional association of a word.
What is connotation?
This is the repetition of the final sounds of unrhymed words
What is consonance?
These type of Romantic focuses on the mysterious forces that motivate human behavior
What are the Dark Romantics?
This is loaded language that a speaker uses when he or she wants to make an emotional appeal
What is pathos?
This is using a more gentler sounding term to replace another
What is a euphemism?
The following line is an example of what technique "..a government of the people, by the people, for the people"
What is parallelism?
This is the repetition of vowel sounds of unrhymed words
What is assonance?
The Romantic movement often included this element, which is evident in "The Devil and Rom Walker" or a talking bird in "The Raven"
What is the supernatural?
This is a contradictory statement that proves to hold some truth
What is a paradox?
This is the author's attitude towards his audience or subject.
What is tone?
This term is used when the unexpected happens.
What is irony
Identify the poetic element used here: "Up on the left came he and went down into the sea"
What is internal rhyme?
An element of Romanticism is the spontaneous overflow of emotion, that is why they often wrote using this form
What is poetic?
This is writing that ridicules or pokes fun at one's shortcomings or mistakes
What is satire?
An example of parallelism that contains a contrast
What is the anithesis?
This literary device used in the following line "he'll wash away the Albatross's blood.. and make me clean" is an example of this?
What is allusion?