Literary Terms 11 Flashcards
Romanticism
A literary movement represented by a renewal of progressive thought and emotion
Ballad
A fairly short narrative poem written with a song like stanza form
Byronic Hero
A type of hero who was devastatingly attractive yet flawed
Epigram
Short quotation or verse that precedes a poem that sets a tone
Epic Poem
A long serious poetic narrative about a significant event often featuring a hero
Epithet
And adjective or other descriptive phrase it regularly used to characterize a person place or thing
Elegy
A poem of it serious reflection typically ornament for the dead
Gothic Novel
A type of novel popular and romantic. Which features remote settings melodramatic plots the use of whore and supernatural
Novel of manner
A novel that re-creates a social world convene with finally detailed observations the customs values and more highly developed and complex Sadie
Ode
A lyric poem to praise and expressed deep feeling for particular subject often elevated and style or manner and written in buried of your regular meter