Lit Terms
Ballad
A short narrative poem that usually recounts vivid events in the life of a community.
Examples of expressive poetry full of imagery...(give an example of specific poem)
What is nearly every poem read this unit.
Specific work including evil spirits and witchcraft.
What is Byron's Manfred.
Another name for rebellious heros.
What are byronic heros.
A mode that emphasizes a view of the world as it usually appears to our earthly senses.
What is Realistic Mode.
A short, non-narrative poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a speaker.
What is Lyric Poem.
Give specific poetic example of horror, sentimental or confessional mode.
What is Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Goethe's Sorrows.
Work where nature is equated with God/pantheistic view.
What is Goethe's Sorrows of a Young Werther.
Examples of byronic heros.
Byron's Manfred. Also Shelley's Prometheus.
Eras/Periods the Romantics admired.
What is Medieval and Renaissance .
Plot
What is the arrangement of events in a story such that they have a beginning, middle and end.
Revived the sonnet
Who is Wordsworth and Keats.
Poet who emphasized gardens and countryside settings.
Who is Wordsworth.
Extremes of man's emotions are displayed in these works.
What is most by Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Goethe and Colderidge.
Four ages of literary history
What are Theocratic, Aristocratic, Democratic and Chaotic.
A geographical place or physical space in which a story, play or poem is set.
Used ballad form.
What was Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The center of societal evils.
What are cities.
Work where struggles to unattainable goals are glorified.
The Romantic role of the poet
What is 'Bard' of the people that kept and articulated their passions, beliefs and values.
An artistic movement that emphasized and explored human emotions.
Full of classical mythology or a fairy tale. (Specific example).
What is Shelley's Prometheus Unbound or Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
How Blake's worldview of the Universal man/God/Satan is expressed.
What is Expression of good and evil, God and Satan are needed in the creative process.
Lower class, countryside purity and natural genius displayed in this ancient work.
Form Follows Function
An author will mold the formal elements of his work in such a way that they serve his purposes for the artistic work as a whole.