Academic Vocabulary: American Romanticism

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Academic and literary terms specific to American literature written from 1800 to 1855.
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  1. romanticism
    impractical ideals and attitudes
  2. satire
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  3. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  4. blank verse
    unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter
  5. allegory
    a short moral story
  6. transcendentalism
    a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual
  7. internal rhyme
    a rhyme between words in the same line
  8. image
    a visual representation produced on a surface
  9. symbolize
    express indirectly by an image, form, or model
  10. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  11. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  12. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  13. meter
    a basic unit of length (approximately 1.094 yards)
  14. scheme
    an elaborate and systematic plan of action
Created on Fri Jan 25 14:38:07 EST 2013

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