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Vocabulary from Modules 13-15.
38 Terms
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Romanticism
International artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.
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Gothic novels
Novels that typically feature picturesque yet haunted medieval castles and ruins, supernatural elements,death, madness, and terror.
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mysticism
The belief that the physical world of nature is a revelation of a spiritual or transcendental presence in the universe.
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sensibility
The emotional enthusiasm that was a reaction, often an exaggerated reaction, to the reason and logic prized in neoclassicism.
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primitivism & individualism
Interest in the person who does not have the artificial manners of high society, the cultivated façade of the aristocracy.
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Lyrical Ballads
A collection of poems written and jointly published by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798
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Preface
An introductory explanation.
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lyric
A brief poem, expressing emotion, imagination, and meditative thought, usually stanzaic in form.
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ode
A lyric poem longer than usual lyrics, often on a more serious topic, usually meditative and philosophic in tone and subject.
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ballad
A narrative poem or song, usually simple & regular in rhythm & rhyme. The typical ballad stanza is 4 lines rhyming abab.
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copses
areas densely covered with shrubs and small trees
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corporeal
bodily
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sylvan
associated with the forest or woodlands
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genial
creative
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sedge
reedy plants
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sinews
tendon or ligament
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steep
soak; saturate
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sordid boon
tarnished or selfish gift
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Pagan
someone who is not Christian, Jewish, or Muslim
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suckled in a creed outworn
raised in an outdated faith or belief system
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lea
meadow
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Proteus…Triton
sea gods of Greek mythology
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wrath
extreme or violent anger
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Soft deceitful wiles
clever strategies designed to manipulate or persuade someone to do what one wants
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