This poem uses the Scottish dialect to depict a common, everyday situation on a farm.
What is "To a Mouse"?
100
This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
It has four lines.
What is a quatrain?
100
Romantics mainly wrote in praise of this. They believed it could heal and destroy. They found peace here.
What is nature?
100
This is a comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
This poem deals with the state of experience. It describes a fearsome animal and expresses wonder at who could create such a being.
What is "The Tyger"?
200
It is a comparison between two things that says one thing is the other.
What is a metaphor?
200
it has two lines.
What is a couplet?
200
Romatics wrote about this in poems like "Ozymandias" and "Kubla Khan." It includes spiritual experiences, dreams, the imagination, and faraway places.
What is the supernatural or exotic?
200
This is an offshoot of Romanticism that deals with the dark and destructive side of nature.
What is Gothic literature?
300
This poem was written after an opium-induced dream and depicts a fantastical place using much imagery.
What is "Kubla Khan"?
300
This uses the five senses to make a point.
What is imagery?
300
It has six lines.
What is a sestet?
300
Romantics believed in subjective experience. This trait involves each person's unique experience.
What is an interest in the individual?
300
This poem addressed the idea of innocence by using a biblically symbolic animal.
What is "The Lamb"?
400
He wrote, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."
Who is William Wordsworth?
400
This is the repetition of initial vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
400
It has eight lines.
What is an octave?
400
Romantics often disrupted metrical patterns and questioned authority. This trait addresses their desire to try new things.
What is experimentation and freedom of thought?
400
This is a stanza with three lines.
What is a tercet?
500
He was married to the author of Frankenstein, and he wrote a poem titled "Ozymandias."
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
500
This is an address to someone or something not present in the poem.
What is apostrophe?
500
It has five lines.
What is a cinquain?
500
This trait shows that the Romantics questioned the logic and order of the Age of Reason. They wanted these to shine through in their poems. This is the opposite of the intellect and logic of the previous era.
What is expression of emotions?
500
This year is considered the start of the Romantic Era.