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| the polish of formal eighteenth century poetry, but it also anticipates the Romantic emphasis on mystery, emotion, and individual expression. |
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| a solemn work that mourns someone’s death or reflects on a serious theme |
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| a fanciful, dreamlike poem. |
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| a short prose piece that explores a topic, as if the author were letting you overhear his or her thoughts |
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| a form of literature in which the reader passes from the reasoned order of the everyday world into the dark and dreadful world of the supernatural. |
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| the language, and particularly the speech habits, of a particular social class, region, or group. |
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| are words, images, or ideas that stand for something else. |
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| a late-eighteenth-century literary movement that reacted against the |
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| repetition of a consonant sound at the beginnings of words |
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| another sound device is the repetition of similar final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with dissimilar vowel sounds. |
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| the repetition of a vowel sound in stressed syllables with dissimilar consonant sounds. |
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