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literary concepts quiz 1
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12th Grade
12/04/2013

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Pre- Romantic poetry
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the polish of formal eighteenth century poetry, but it also anticipates the Romantic emphasis on mystery, emotion, and individual expression.
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Elegy
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a solemn work that mourns someone’s death or reflects on a serious theme
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3. Reverie
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a fanciful, dreamlike poem.
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Essay
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a short prose piece that explores a topic, as if the author were letting you overhear his or her thoughts
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Gothic literature
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a form of literature in which the reader passes from the reasoned order of the everyday world into the dark and dreadful world of the supernatural.
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Dialect
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the language, and particularly the speech habits, of a particular social class, region, or group.
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Symbols
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are words, images, or ideas that stand for something else.
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Romanticism
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a late-eighteenth-century literary movement that reacted against the
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Lyric poems
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Alliteration
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repetition of a consonant sound at the beginnings of words
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Consonance
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another sound device is the repetition of similar final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with dissimilar vowel sounds.
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Assonance
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the repetition of a vowel sound in stressed syllables with dissimilar consonant sounds.
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