British Literature - Romantic Era

Make sure to re-read the poems

The World is Too Much With Us

William Woodsworth

London, 1802

William Woodsworth

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley

England in 1819

Percy Bysshe Shelley

She Walks in Beauty

Lord Byron

Ode on Melancholy

John Keats

Father of Romantic Poetry

William Woodsworth

This author was married to the author of Frankenstein

Percy Bysshe Shelley

He had a deformed foot and would often engage in frenzied exercise to make up for it.

Lord Byron

Had one only woman he was in love with

John Keats

figure of speech using like or as

simile

a statement is made that says one thing is something else but literally it is not

metaphor

an extravagant exaggeration

hyperbole

a pattern of sounds that includes the repetition of consonant sounds

alliteration

a reference to something famous in history or literature

allusion

a symbol is a word or object that stands for another word or object

symbolism

using human traits to describe or characterize non-human things

personification

use of words that sound like the things they are referring to

onomatopoeia

readers know what will happen before characters do

dramatic irony

readers expect a certain outcome, only to be surprised by the turn of events

situational irony

when intended meaning of a statement is the opposite of what was said

verbal irony