Literature Terms: Poetry
Romanticism
Vocabulary
Literature Terms
Literature Questions
100

This refers to the repetition of the beginning sounds of words.

What is alliteration

100

The Romantic movement writers discuss the appreciation of what?

What is Nature?

100

This is using exaggeration for effect

What is hyperbole?

100

Reference to a prior work or historical event

What is an allusion

100

What device is used in the following line, we must fight, I repeat, we must fight!"

What is repetition?

200

This device appeals to the five senses

What is imagery?

200

This element of Romanticism involves this type or use of language, which is the way many Romantics strove to use language.

What is simplicity?

200

This is a comparison that speaks of one thing as though it were another, such as "her eyes were flawless diamonds"

What a metaphor?

200

The central message of a literary work

What is theme?

200

This is the emotional association of a word.

What is connotation? 

300

This is the repetition of the final sounds of unrhymed words

What is consonance?

300

These type of Romantic focuses on the mysterious forces that motivate human behavior

What are the Dark Romantics?

300

This is loaded language that a speaker uses when he or she wants to make an emotional appeal

What is pathos?

300

This is using a more gentler sounding term to replace another

What is a euphemism? 

300

The following line is an example of what technique "..a government of the people, by the people, for the people"

What is parallelism?

400

This is the repetition of vowel sounds of unrhymed words

What is assonance?

400

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?

400

This is a contradictory statement that proves to hold some truth

What is a paradox?

400

This is the author's attitude towards his audience or subject.

What is tone?

400

This term is used when the unexpected happens.

What is irony

500

Identify the poetic element used here: "Up on the left came he and went down into the sea"

What is internal rhyme?

500

An element of Romanticism is the spontaneous overflow of emotion, that is why they often wrote using this form

What is poetic?

500

This is writing that ridicules or pokes fun at one's shortcomings or mistakes

What is satire?

500

An example of parallelism that contains a contrast

What is the anithesis?

500

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?