 An American movement in literature and art   Marked by emotion and imagination  A rebellion against the Enlightment and a response to previous times

 The Enlightenment  A cultural movement during and after the American Revolution  Period of time where people valued data, knowledge and reason (i.e. being enlightened) over using feeling and urges to decide  Also a time where people were thought of as a group and everyone fought for the good of everyone else (ex: The American Revolution)  Watchmaker theory: the idea that God, like a watchmaker, created the universe then set it down and left it alone

 Emotion  This is where the term “Romanticism” comes from  Romantic means emotional, not just in love  People expressed more emotion: happiness, anger, love, sadness  Imagination  Literature was no longer written to get people to support a cause  Stories and poems had plot and creative ideas and settings

 The individual  The common man, someone who wasn’t an important person in society with an Ivy League education  This was who the Revolution had been fought for and they now were thought to be important  God  God is all around in everything we do  A direct reaction to Watchmaker theory  Nature  A place to feel at one with God’s world and to feel a return to our natural state

 Revolutionaries  Reason and data  Man as a group  Watchmaker theory  The New World, cities as a place of thinking and creation  Romantics  Emotion and Imagination  The individual  God is everywhere  Nature

 America had just come through the Revolution, a time where people fought as a group for the hope of the individual’s future  New sense of freedom  “All men are created equal”

 Took Romanticism a step further  Used wildly creative scenarios  Dark, isolated settings  Use of the supernatural  The occult (dark magic, devils)

 For pleasure, not politics  Literature gets personal, tells individual’s stories  Glorify the land  Insight into characters  Celebrated America  Change in style, both poetry and prose

 Allusion  Imagery  Personification  Theme  Rhyme  End  Internal  Tone  Metaphor  Simile

 When one literary work references a well-known person, place, event, work of art, or another literary work to make a point. Example: In Taylor Swift’s song “Love Story”, she alludes to the play “Romeo and Juliet” and the novel The Scarlet Letter to enhance her message.

 The descriptive or figurative language used in literature that appeals to our five senses.  Imagery makes us see, hear, taste, touch, smell what the character sees, hears, tastes, etc. so that we become immersed in the action and emotion.

 A type of figurative language, where a non-human object is given human characteristics Examples: -The desk coughed and grunted as I shoved it across the old wooden floor. -The tea kettle whistled once the water was boiling.

 The central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work  This is the deeper meaning, the main lesson/message/moral that the author hopes the reader will understand at the end of the story that the author hopes the reader will understand at the end.

Some examples of themes include: man’s search for identity, man’s inhumanity to man, the search for the meaning of life, patience before passion, goodness can conquer evil, the triumph of the human spirit,

correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words  End Rhyme - when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same ex: Star Light, Star Bright First star I see tonight  Internal Rhyme - rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines ex: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I wandered weak and weary

 The attitude toward the subject that an author conveys in a literary work

 A comparison between two unlike things, without using the words “like” or “as”.  Instead, one thing is spoken of as though it is something else completely. Example (from the Langston Hughes poem “Dreams”): …if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.

 A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”.  Similes are used to make descriptions of objects or people more powerful. Example: Without a simile: “It was dark outside.” With a simile: “The night was as dark as thick, black velvet.”

 Archetype  Refrain  Rhyme Scheme  Alliteration  Assonance  Consonance  Blank Verse  Free Verse  Onomatopoeia

Archetypes

Refrain

Rhyme Scheme

Alliteration

Assonance

Consonance

Blank Verse

Free Verse

Onomatopoeia