British Romanticism

Question 1

Neo-classical Movement

Answer 1

“enlightenment” science/ math era– poets had to justify why poetry was important in a time focused on science and math, tried to mimic science and math because they were the things that were important at the time; poetry is a process that takes practice

Question 2

Alexander Pope

Answer 2

neo classicism, poet is the finest of all men; it takes practice to be a poet; it is a process

Question 3

Childhood

Answer 3

poets focused on first nature– the innocence of a child; carefree; naive

Question 4

Imagination

Answer 4

reality vs. imagination

Question 5

Nature

Answer 5

bring back nature– get out of the technology and industrial revolution– did not want humans to become machines

Question 6

Solitude

Answer 6

individual vs. society

Question 7

Metonym

Answer 7

a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself. IN this way we commonly speak of the king as the “crown” an object closely associated with kingship

Question 8

Figurative language

Answer 8

changes the literal meaning, to make a meaning fresh or clearer, to express complexity, to capture a physical or sentry effect, or to extend meaning. (Personification, Litotes, Apostrophe)

Question 9

Personification

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tresting abstractions or inanimate objects as human, that is giving them human attributes, powers, or feelings

Question 10

Litotes

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a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite– opposite of hyperbole– “Not a bad idea” “I have this tiny little tumor on the brain”

Question 11

Apostrophe

Answer 11

a figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent) some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present.

Question 12

Syntax

Answer 12

the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. which ideas in a sentence come before others

Question 13

End-stopped

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a line with a pause at the end (periods, commas, colons, semicolons, etc.)

Question 14

Enjambent

Answer 14

the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next

Question 15

Imagery

Answer 15

descriptive and imaginative words and phrases that appeal to the reader’s senses and imagination

Question 16

Alliteration

Answer 16

the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a word

Question 17

Assonance

Answer 17

the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds

Question 18

Consonance

Answer 18

the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words