Poetry and Poets
A poem with 14 lines ending with a rhyming couplet
Shakespearean Sonnet
Writers and thinkers during this movement were more concerned with the Individual than with Society
Romanticism
An indirect reference to a passage, work, character or event
Allusion
Critics considered his style of writing to be "ambiguous narrative"
Joseph Conrad
Alliteration
Lyrical poem written in praise of a person, event, or place
Ode
This movement was concerned with manners, decorum, and social status
Victorian
An extended metaphor
Conceit
Romanticism
The repetition of consonant sounds within words in close proximity
A poem written to lament someone's death
Elegy
This movement's motto was "make it new," emphasizing a break with traditional artistic values
Modernism
A figure of speech in which two contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Oxymoron
A key motif in this novel was the idea of the "muddle," in which lead characters find themselves in moral internal conflict
A Room With a View
The repetition of initial words or phrases in lines of poetry
A poem, usually with rhyme and meter, that tells a dramatic story. Shorter than an epic.
Narrative poem
The literary period with which Shakespeare is associated
Renaissance or Elizabethan
A statement that seems self-contradictory but is nevertheless true
Paradox
This type of theater, employed by Tennessee Williams, includes the use of props or staging to impress upon the audience more abstract ideas.
Plastic theater
A part of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.
Metonymy
"Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night" is an example of this type of poem
villanelle
Literary movement that was skeptical of established religion, believing that intuition and knowledge could be found within
Transcendentalism
Quality of realism in a work that persuades readers that they are getting a vision of life as it is
Verisimilitude
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Poetry written in iambic pentameter, but which does not rhyme (Shakespeare wrote in this form)
Blank verse