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- "Piper play that song again"
- Blake: Songs of Innocence Introduction
- Heroic Couplet
- pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter.
- Enjambment
- run-on line; a line of verse having no end punctuation but continuing grammatical meaning past the end of the line.
- Sensibility
- Sentiment; literature that values emotion over the logic of Enlightenment, and believes it to be a truer moral guide than abstract principals --> views humans as naturally benevolent
- Zeugma
- yoking or bonding; artfully using a verb or adjective to connect two otherwise unrelated objects
- Epic Simile
- Sustained simile (using 'like' to compare two different objects) that is used in the epic or mock heroic, and lasts much longer than a sentence (up to 100 lines).
- Anaphora
- A rhetorical scheme that involves repeating an initial word or phrase at the beginning of several lines of verse (opposed to epistrophe which repeats words at end).
- Epistolary Novel
- Narrative form in which a story is told through letters written by one or more characters in a novel. Effectively removes an sort of a formal narrator or sustained narrative voice.
- Blank Verse
- Non-rhymed iambic pentameter
- Stichic
- Opposed to Strophic; describes verse composed of a continuous and unbroken set of lines of the same length and meter (isometric).
- Strophic
- opposed to stichic; describes lines composed in stanzas like ballads.
- Frame Narrative
- story that encompasses, bookends, or frames another story that may or may not include other stories, such as a narrator telling another story about another person. Eliminates any cohesive narrative voice.
- Anachronism
- placing an object, person or part of speech out of its historical period and context.
- Ballad
- Verse written in quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter. The second and fourth lines MUST rhyme. Includes "folksy" language and tragic themes and refrain.
- Elegy
- verse of lamentation over loss or death of something/someone.
- Gothic
- Germanic, Medieval, uncivilized; describes a literary style popular in the late 18th century and early 19th century that centered on themes of the perverse, grotesque, mysterious, and desolate.
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life Olaudah Equiano
- Olaudah Equiano
- Rape of the Lock
- Alexander Pope
- Fantomina
- Eliza Haywood
- Joseph Andrews
- Henry Fielding
- My Cat Jeoffry
- from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart
- Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR. JULY 13, 1798
- William Wordsworth
- She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
- William Wordsworth
- Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known
- William Wordsworth
- A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
- William Wordsworth
- I Travelled Among Unknown Men
- William Wordsworth
- Resolution and Independence
- William Wordsworth
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
- William Wordsworth
- My Heart Leaps Up
- William Wordsworth
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
- William Wordsworth
- The Solitary Reaper
- William Wordsworth
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
- William Wordsworth
- London 1802
- William Wordsworth
- The World is Too Much With Us
- William Wordsworth
- Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen
- Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- William Blake
- The Lamb "Little Lamb, Who made thee?"
- The Lamb from Innocence by Blake
- The Little Black Boy
- Innocence by Blake
- The Chimney Sweeper
- "Tom Dakre" Innocence by Blake
- The Devine Image
- "Love Purity Peace" Innocence by Blake
- "Hear the voice of the Bard"
- Introduction from Experience by Blake
- The Chimney Sweep
- Experience by Blake
- The Sick Rose
- Experience by Blake
- The Tyger
- Experience by Blake
- London
- Experience by Blake
- Ode to Psyche
- John Keats
- Ode to Melancholy
- John Keats
- Ode to a Nightengale
- John Keats
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- John Keats
- To Autumn
- John Keats
- Kubla Khan
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Frankenstein
- Mary Shelley
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Thomas Gray