Terminology Flashcards

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1
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Define romanticism

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An expression of personal feeling and interest in the natural world

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2
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Define connotations

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What’s suggested by a word

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3
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Define semantic field

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A group of words that relate to each other

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4
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What are rhyming couplets reminiscent of?

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Sonnets

-love

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5
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Define enjambment

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When one line runs on to another

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6
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Define gutteral

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A sound that comes from the throat

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7
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Define jingoistic

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Overly patriotic to a fault

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8
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Define bucolic

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A pretty English countryside scene

-like a painting in a pub

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9
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Define palimpsest

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When the present is intertwined with history

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10
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Define quotidian

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How ordinary things relate to bigger ideas

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11
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Define caesura

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When there’s a break in the line caused by punctuation

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12
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What should be included in the analysis of a poem?

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Introduction- answering question 
Content of the poem (attitudes, themes, ideas)
Structure 
Tone
3 paras of structured analysis 
Context
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13
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Define flax

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A rough plant that gets dunked in water to be weaved

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14
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Define negative capability

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When beauty overcomes everything else and a person gives themselves up to the experience

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15
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Define myopia

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Being short sighted

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16
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What are the keys ideas of romanticism?

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Revolution
The imagination
The marginalised & oppressed
Children, nature and the sublime
Negative capability
17
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Define imperceptibly

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Hardly noticeable

18
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Define perfidy

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Decietful

19
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Define sequestered

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Hidden away

religious connotations

20
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Define a keel

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Abeam through a boat that keeps it upright

21
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Define conceit

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Comparing two things that aren’t usually compared

22
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Give an example of conceit

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As fit as a fiddle

23
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Define aquisescence

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When something bad is going to happen, but you accept it and allow it to happen

24
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Define an apologia

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A formal written defence of ones actions or opinions

25
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Define the sublime

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An experience of the infinite which overpowers human understanding of the universe
-spiritual

26
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When was the romantic movement?

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1800s

27
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Define epononymous

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Someone giving their name to something

- Self titled