Test 1

Question 0

What is a genre?

Answer 0

A particular style of writing

Question 1

How about Apostrophe?

Answer 1

An address to an absent or imaginary person, thing, or personified distraction. (Shelley talking to the wind)

Question 2

What is a lyric?

Answer 2

A poem, brief and discontinuous, emphasizing sound and pictorial imagery rather then narrative or dramatic movement.

Question 3

What is a ballad?

Answer 3

A communal form of poetry

Question 4

Personification

Answer 4

The technique of treating abstractions, things, or animals as person’s.

Question 5

Elegy

Answer 5

A poem on death or serious loss. “lament” or grief for the dead.

Question 6

Alliteration

Answer 6

“adding letters”. Two or more words, or accented syllables, chime on the same initial letters that sound the same or in fact are the same “O wild west wind”.

Question 7

Assonance

Answer 7

Repeating of vowel sounds.. Ex:eyeing you hear it echo in the poem at different moments

Question 8

Enjambment

Answer 8

Run-on lines, which one line of poetry in which there is no pause between the lines, couplets, or stanzas.(Shelley Ode to WW)

Question 9

Iambic pentameter

Answer 9

Metrical line of poetry and verse drama. “iamb”, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Question 10

Terza Rima

Answer 10

(4) sets of interlocking followed by by couplet. Aba, bcb, cdc… first and third line rhyme, middle does not, then the end sound is employed as the rhyme for the first and third in the next stanza.

Question 11

Romanticism

Answer 11

Late 18th century movement. Imagination, the rights of the individual, love of nature. A reaction from the past order and neoclassicism approaches.

Question 12

Free indirect discourse

Answer 12

A way of representing characters speech or thought by combining direct discourse with narratorial commentary. Ex: Pride and Prejudice. The 3rd person commentary through feelings and thoughts of her characters.

Question 13

Epistolary

Answer 13

A book of letters for litterary works.

Question 14

Vitalistic

Answer 14

A theory that the origin of life that is dependent on a force or chemical distinct from purely chemical or physical forces. (Shelley) dwelling, living, presence

Question 15

Pantheism

Answer 15

A doctrine that identifies God with the universe. God’s spirit in all things.

Question 16

Wollstonecraft’s A vindication of women’s rights (polemic) Contains also 2 (vignette’s)

Answer 16

An extremely modest proposal (polemic). Effective persuasion of a reasonable suggestion. She did not want to alienate, since she was one of the first feminists in England. She discusses how the creation of an idea of how women are formed in their culture at that time . Dependence over independence for women.

• why not let women develop, learn, and gain strength
• using figurative language treatment of women to topics of the day ex: tyranny, slavery, power, injustice, despotism.

Romantic Emergence:
A period of innocence, vulnerability, and formality.

Childhood examples: children need to be moving and playing, which will teach independence and other skills of the mind.

A reasoning for women who have power have had this type of a childhood.

Question 17

Gothic novel

Answer 17

18th and 19th century writing. Horror, death, depression, etc. Frankenstein, pseudomedevial setting.

Question 18

Ode to the West Wind. 1819. (Shelley)

Answer 18

Shelley is also relating to Pantheism of the time. He is also Vitalistic in his poem.

Formal.

• Iambic pentameter
• Terza rima (first and third line rhyme, middle does not, then the end sound is employed as the rhyme for the first and third in the next stanza.
• Elegy
• enjambment -hooks lines together. The wind moving.

(Assonance) “eeing” at the end of phrases.

Question 19

Polemic

Answer 19

Formal redoric or debate

Question 21

Vignette

Answer 21

A short picture, graphic in words. (Wollstonecraft)

Question 21

Tinturn Abbey published in 1798-1800’s in “lyrical ballads” (Wordsworth)

Answer 21

“Pantheism” the life of all things. Wordsworth goes into these elements. Love of nature ad appreciation for such. How adulthood cannot change a mind from the thoughts of his childhood. Memories have uplifted him.
Describes a meditative state or transcendental.

Form:
The forms is in an iambic pentameter unstressed followed by stressed syllables.

Question 22

Preface to Lyrical Ballads: 1798 democratic revolution in subject matter
(Wordsworth)

Answer 22

18th Century and previous:
Subject matter:
Aristocrats
Divinities 
Mythological characters
Epic heroes

Language:
Artificial, laminate

Process:
Craft

Wordsworth's Romantic poetry:
Subject matter:
Humble &  rustic life
Poor/low
Closer to nature

Language:
Everyday common life
Democratic

Process:
Spontaneously Overflow/powerful feeling

Question 23

Ode

Answer 23

A long, stately lyric poem in in stanzas of Metrical pattern