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Ode
An extended and lofty lyric poem expressing emotions about a significant occasion or person, to whom the ode is dedicated
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Lyric
One of the major forms of poetry; a poem; a poem of emotions, expressing directly the feelings of the speaker of the poem
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Poetic Diction
Words chosen for their supposedly inherently poetic quality
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Gothic Novel
A novel in which magic, mystery, and chivalry are chief characteristics
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Ballad
A form of verse to be sung or recited that presents an incident or episode in narrative form
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Blank Verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Elegy
A sustained formal poem setting the poet's meditations upon death or another serious subject
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Conservative Poem
A form of meditative poetry in blank verse developed by Coleridge that was used to convey the unspoken remarks of the poet to another person
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Novel of Purpose
A novel written to put forth a particular social theory
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Neoclassicism
Characteristic of 18th century English literature for which the writers looked to classical literature for models. The emphasis was on rules, reason, adherence to set forms; distrust of invention, innovation
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Oxymoron
A rhetorical antithesis that brings together two seemingly contradictory terms in order to achieve a sharp emphasis
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Stress Prosody
A type of poetry in which each line has a set number of stressed syllables but may have a varying number of unstressed syllables
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Satire
Type of literature that blends a critical attitude with humor and wit in order to improve human institutions or humanity
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Noble Savage
The idea that primitive humans are naturally good and that whatever evil they develop is the product of the corrupting action of civilization and society
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Sonnet
A poem consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter usually rhyming abbaabbacdecde or ababcdcdefefgg
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Opium
A Narcotic produced from the opium poppy that was widely used as a pain killer. Highly addictive; addicts suffer physical and mental side effects that include extremely vivid dreams
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Christ Hospital
A school for needy children in london; both Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge attended there
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Eolian Harp
A musical instrument designed to be placed in an open window, when a breeze blows through the window, the strings of the harp vibrate, producing a musical sound
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Byronic Hero
A young man of stormy emotions who shuns humanity and wanders through life weighed down by a sense of guilt for mysterious sins of his past
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