Terminology Flashcards
Define romanticism
An expression of personal feeling and interest in the natural world
Define connotations
What’s suggested by a word
Define semantic field
A group of words that relate to each other
What are rhyming couplets reminiscent of?
Sonnets
-love
Define enjambment
When one line runs on to another
Define gutteral
A sound that comes from the throat
Define jingoistic
Overly patriotic to a fault
Define bucolic
A pretty English countryside scene
-like a painting in a pub
Define palimpsest
When the present is intertwined with history
Define quotidian
How ordinary things relate to bigger ideas
Define caesura
When there’s a break in the line caused by punctuation
What should be included in the analysis of a poem?
Introduction- answering question Content of the poem (attitudes, themes, ideas) Structure Tone 3 paras of structured analysis Context
Define flax
A rough plant that gets dunked in water to be weaved
Define negative capability
When beauty overcomes everything else and a person gives themselves up to the experience
Define myopia
Being short sighted
What are the keys ideas of romanticism?
Revolution The imagination The marginalised & oppressed Children, nature and the sublime Negative capability
Define imperceptibly
Hardly noticeable
Define perfidy
Decietful
Define sequestered
Hidden away
religious connotations
Define a keel
Abeam through a boat that keeps it upright
Define conceit
Comparing two things that aren’t usually compared
Give an example of conceit
As fit as a fiddle
Define aquisescence
When something bad is going to happen, but you accept it and allow it to happen
Define an apologia
A formal written defence of ones actions or opinions
Define the sublime
An experience of the infinite which overpowers human understanding of the universe
-spiritual
When was the romantic movement?
1800s
Define epononymous
Someone giving their name to something
- Self titled
