Romantic Period Vocab - Part 1

Lyric Poetry

• short, non-narrative

• speaker presents a state of mind of or emotional state

• originally meant for singing

Elegy

• lyric poetry

• formal lament of a death or passing of earlier times

Lyric Poetry

• short, non-narrative

• speaker presents a state of mind of or emotional state

• originally meant for singing

Elegy

• lyric poetry

• formal lament of a death or passing of earlier times

Ode

• lyric poetry

• formal and ceremonious

• celebrates a person,place, thing, or idea

Sonnet

• lyric poetry

• fixed-verse 14 line poem

• propose a problem in the opening section that is later resolved

Volta

shift in a sonnet

Narrative Poetry

• used to tell a story

• poet combined ideas of storytelling, plot, setting, and characters with elements of poetry such as meter, rhyme and form

Epic Poem

• Narrative Poetry

• large scale in both length and topic

• elevated style of language

Ballad

• Narrative Poetry

• storytelling songs

• alternating four stress & three stress linesreocunt tragic, cominc, or heroic stories

Dramatic Poetry

• utilizes techniques of drama

• no narration by author

Dramatic Monologue

a poem written as a speech made by a character in a critical moment

Denotation

literal word meaning

Connotation

Contextual meaning; overtones

Euphony

• sounds of word working together with meaning that pleases the mind and ear

• opposite of cacophony

Cacophony

• opposite of euphony

• unpleasant comboniation of sounds

Alliteration

repetition of same constant sound

Assonance

repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds

Consonance

• near rhyme

• consists of identical consonance sounds followed by different vowel sounds

Rhyme

• repetition of similar sounds in two or more words

• common at ends of lines of poetry