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An extended and lofty lyric poem expressing emotions about a significant occasion or person, to whom the ode is dedicated

One of the major forms of poetry; a poem; a poem of emotions, expressing directly the feelings of the speaker of the poem

Words chosen for their supposedly inherently poetic quality

A novel in which magic, mystery, and chivalry are chief characteristics

A form of verse to be sung or recited that presents an incident or episode in narrative form

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

A sustained formal poem setting the poet's meditations upon death or another serious subject

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

A novel written to put forth a particular social theory

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

A rhetorical antithesis that brings together two seemingly contradictory terms in order to achieve a sharp emphasis

A type of poetry in which each line has a set number of stressed syllables but may have a varying number of unstressed syllables

Type of literature that blends a critical attitude with humor and wit in order to improve human institutions or humanity

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

A poem consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter usually rhyming abbaabbacdecde or ababcdcdefefgg

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

A school for needy children in london; both Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge attended there

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

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