english cka revision Flashcards
To learn vocabulary words and rotam
what is a Byronic hero?
a Byronic hero is an antihero. They are usually typically arrogant and rebellious yet charismatic and alluring
What is caesura?
A pause in a line of poetry, often occurring in the middle
What is hyperbole?
the use of extreme exaggeration for effect
What is personification?
Giving human qualities to ideas, animals and objects
What is the sublime?
Feeling of extreme awe or overwhelming terror in response to majestic aspects of nature
What was the enlightenment period?
an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century
What perspective did Romantics like to view everything in?
A childlike perspective
What generation Romantics were Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge
First generation
What generation Romantics were Byron, Shelly and Keats?
Second generation
What century was the romanticism period?
Late 18th to the mid-19th century.
What century was the enlightenment period?
18th century
What does the mariner kill which gets him punished in ROTAM?
An albatross
Who does the Mariner stop to tell his story?
A wedding guest
