English 3500, Nineteenth Century Literature
Vocabulary 2
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Give a short definition that shows you understand the following terms:

1. archetype

2. Bildungsroman

3. Bowdlerize

4. canon

5. closet drama

6. dramatic irony

7. elegy

8. epic

9. cultural primitivism

10. chronological primitivism

11. epithalamion

12. Augustan Age

13. heroic couplet

14. hyperbole

15. idyll

16. informal essay

17. Italian/Petrarchan sonnet

18. monody

19. art ballad

20. Regency Period

21. sublime

22. oxymoron

23. octave / sestet

24. quantitative meter

25. satire

26. Shakespearean/English sonnet

27. Neoclassicism

28. symbol

29. synesthesia

30. verse paragraph

31. simile

32. mock epic