5c. Study Help
Concepts & terms to remember
Check your Literary History file whether you've taken notes on all these concepts/terms.
General historical background
- Industrial Revolution
- French Revolution
- emphasis on feelings, nature & history
- Lyrical Ballads
First Generation
- characteristics of Romantic Poetry
- glorifying nature
- emotion over reason
- imagination over logic
- mysteries and monsters
- historical interest
- interest in the exotic and unfamiliar
- anti-establishment & anti-authoritarian
- noble workman / noble savage
- glorifying children and childhood
- Lake Poets
- Poet Laureate
- technical terms (repeated from 4V):
- sonnet
- rhyme scheme
- iambic pentameter
- stanzas: quatrains, tercets, couplets
- techniques: alliteration, assonance, personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole
Second Generation
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