ENG 214 Midterm Study Guide
"emotion recollected in tranquility"
"Spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions" - correct answer-William Wordsworth, Lyrical
Ballads Preface ,origin of poem from emotional experience but when he actually writes it you
must be in a calm, quiet space and recollect the memory ,"I have said that poetry is the
spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings : it takes its origin from emotion recollected in
tranquility.."
"Willing suspension of disbelief" - correct answer-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, let go of reality
and beliefs (grade saver: By this he meant that the reader will accept the poem on its own
terms, temporarily giving over to the author's vision of the world long enough to appreciate
the work.)
Accomplishments - correct answer-Because women were not educated they needed to
make themselves attractive to wealthy men. They did this through music, dancing, drawing,
"net purses", crafts, and languages.
Aristocracy - correct answer-the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding
hereditary titles or offices.
Ballad - correct answer-sang to music, songs, repetitive, series of lines, regular rhythm
Ballad Stanza - correct answer-abab (alternating rhyme), alternating lines of terameter (4
beats) and trimeter (3 beats) , 4 lines
Bildungsroman - correct answer-a novel of development, a novel in which a young character
develops overtime from youth to maturity (Pride and Prejudice , Elizabeth contesting rules to
acceptance and conformity)
French Revolution - correct answer-1789-1815 , Slogan: liberte, eqalite,faternite, after a
democratic start to a revolutionist descended into violence and fear "The Reign Of Terror" ,
Napoleon declared himself emperor until1 815
democracy- fear- dictatorship
Gothic - correct answer-1st Gothic Novel Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, Gothic
Revival 1764, meant for pleasure criticized of not having a purpose, powerful imagery and
descriptions,gothic elements: moon, ghosts, death, castles, secret passageways ,
graveyards, churches. Medieval- imagination, improbable
Illuminated Printing - correct answer-William Blake used it,
Lyric Poem - correct answer-short poem about personal experience "I" speaker (Lyrical
Ballads /Preface?)
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