Romantic Poetry Terms

alliteration use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse 2. assonance the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words 3. Classicism a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms 4. Diction the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience 5. end rhyme occurs when words at the end of lines rhyme 6. gothic The dark obscure side of the imagination 7. internal rhyme a rhyme between words in the same line 8. juxtaposition the act of positioning close together (or side by side) 9. metaphor a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity 10. Neoclassicism revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation 11. oath (covenant) a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior 12. onomatopoeia using words that imitate the sound they denote 13. Pastoral a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) 14. personification the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. 15. poetry literature in metrical form 16. repetition the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device 17. rhyme correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) 18. rhyme scheme the pattern of rhyme in a poem 19. Romantic Age Literary period from 1798-1837 20. Romanticism a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
21. simile a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') 22. sonnet a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme 23. speaker the person speaking in the poem, like the narrator in prose - not always the poet 24. stanza a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem 25. symbol Something that stands for itself or more than itself. (A concrete object that stands for an abstract thought) 26. theme a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work