## 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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