Poets, Satirists, and Romantics

Analyzing, Persuading, Arguing

Restoration, Romantics

Test Review

Styles and Eras

• Metaphysical, • Cavaliers, • Puritans,• Romantics

• Renaissance: Metaphysical, Jacobean, Puritan

• Civil War• Restoration• Romantic Period

Terms to know/ Identify and Analyze

Metaphysical and Cavalier devices• Ethos• Pathos• Logos• Metaphysical poetry

themes• Metaphysical conceit• Blank verse: Paradise

lost

• Poetic devices: personification, simile, metaphor,

• Elegy• Lyric poem• Carpe diem• Hyperbole• Static vs. Dynamic

character• Allusion

Swiftian Techniques 1 of 2

• Satire• Juvenalian and

Horatian• Objectify• Irony

• Ambiguity• Understatement• Tone• Hyperbole • Point of view

Swiftian Techniques 2 of 2

• Parody• Symbols • Rhetoric• Rhetorical devices:• Rhetorical question

• Repetition• Generalization• Oxymoron• Bandwagon

Romantic Age

• Focus on reason, tradition, nature

• Writing characterized by emotion over reason

• Libertarianism• Symbol• Slant rhyme• Assonance/

Consonance

• Metaphor• Romanticism• Enjambment• Imagery• Onomatopoeia• Ballad• Internal rhyme• Alliteration• Ambiguity

All literature: Identify and Analyze

• Structure

• Audience

• Tone

• Point of view

• Infer: author’s purpose, use of devices,

• Theme

Essay

• Compare and contrast two of the eras and styles we have studied. Include both the historical activity/interests and the literary products.

• You must compare two literary works of the same genre i.e. two poems or two essays not an essay and a poem.

• In your comparison, use a minimum of four literary devices found in each work.