Characteristics and Key Terminology
Around what time did Romanticism begin?
The late 18th Century (the late 1700s)
In the painting by Caspar David Friedrich 'The Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog' which geographical feature is the wanderer looking over.
Mountains.
What is the term we use to refer to a paragraph in a poem
Stanza
Define assonance.
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds.
What are two of the characteristics of Romanticism?
Imagination, Creativity, Emotion, Individualism, Focus on Nature
When did Romanticism begin to fade?
Around midway through the 19th Century (1800s)
Which sleeptime phenomenon is depicted in the painting 'The Nightmare' by Henry Fuseli
Sleep paralysis
What is the name of a stanza of that is only two lines long?
A couplet
Define simile.
A simile is a comparison between two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'.
True or false: Romantics believed that populations should move to the city and urbanise.
False
Name one of three revolutions which had an impact on the emergence of the Romantic era.
The French or American Revolutions and the Industrial Revolution
Name just one of the composers we listened to during our gallery walk lesson
Pyotr Llyich Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann
What is the name of the type of poetic meter that has 3 poetic feet in one line.
trimeter
What is the name of the technique where there is a repetition of consonant sounds.
Consonance
What does the term 'celestial bodies' refer to?
Refers to astronomical bodies such as the sun, moon, stars and the planets.
What philosophical movement did Romanticism counter?
The Age of Enlightenment / Rationalism
Who composed the the Swan Lake suite?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (will accept just the surname).
Is iambic meter defined as an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable OR a stress syllable followed by an unstressed-syllable?
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (da-DUM)
What is the name of the technique where a non-human object or thing is given human qualities.
Personification
True or false: the Romantics used everyday language in their poetry but many of them still believed in formal meter and rhyme.
True.
Which country is William Wordsworth from?
England
What is the name of a stanza that is 6 lines in length?
A sestet
Identify the literary technique featured in the following lines:
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing
Religious allusion