English 3500, Nineteenth Century Literature
Vocabulary 3
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Give a short definition that shows you understand the following terms:

1. aestheticism

2. alliteration

3. archaism

4. catharsis

5. dactyl

6. dramatic monologue

7. Enlightenment

8. epiphany

9. epithet

10. gothic novel

11. Great Chain of Being

12. hermeneutics

13. irony (dramatic irony)

14. memento mori

15. metaphor

16. Greater Romantic Lyric

17. common measure (or meter)

18. lyric

19. lyric persona

20. imagery

21. emblem

22. caesura

23. Aristotle�s six elements of tragedy

24. aubade

25. intertextuality

26. picaresque novel

27. eye-rhyme

28. epistolary novel

29. soliloquy

30. stream of consciousness

31. Transcendentalism

32. Aristotle�s three Unities