Literary Terms 12

Question 1

Romanticism

Answer 1

• A literary movement represented by a renewal of progressive thought and emotion
• Themes that emphasize human adventure, individual, nature, imagination, passion, love of splendor, supernatural

Question 2

Ballad

Answer 2

Fairly short narrative poem written in songlike stanza form

Question 3

Byronic hero

Answer 3

Type of hero who was devastatingly attractive yet flawed

Question 4

Epigram

Answer 4

A short quotation or very that precedes a poem that sets a tone, provides a setting, or gives some other context for the poem

Question 5

Epic poem

Answer 5

A long, serious, poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero

Question 6

Epithet

Answer 6

Adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing

Question 7

Elegy

Answer 7

Poem of serious reflection, lament for dead

Question 8

Gothic novel

Answer 8

Type of novel popular in Romantic period which features remote settings, melodramatic plots, use of horror, supernatural

Question 9

Novel of manners

Answer 9

Novel that re-creates a social world, conveying with finely detailed observation the customs, values, and morals of a highly developed/complex society

Question 10

Ode

Answer 10

Lyric poem to praise and express deep feeling for a particular subject often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter