apr. 9, 2013 Flashcards
masculine rhyme
a rhyme that matches only one syllable, usually at the end of respective lines. Often the final syllable is stressed.
feminine rhyme
a rhyme that matches two or more syllables, usually at the end of respective lines, in which the final syllable or syllables are unstressed.
eye rhyme
An eye rhyme, also called a visual rhyme or a sight rhyme, is a rhyme in which two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently and have come into general use through “poetic license”
rhythm
n poetry, the patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features of sound
iambic pentameter
The term describes the particular rhythm that the words establish in that line. That rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables; these small groups of syllables are called “feet”. The word “iambic” describes the type of foot that is used (in English, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable). The word “pentameter” indicates that a line has five of these “feet.”
slack sylables
n unstressed syllable. foot, the unit of rhythm in poetry
caesura
complete pause in a line of poetry or in a musical composition
end stopped v. run on line
which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next
prosody
the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech
iambic meter
foot of iambic pentameter
commonly used names
john
open form v. closed form
free form and
epic
long poem generally secribing a hero
blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
couplet
2 lines in a poem
heroic couplet
refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines.
parallel v. antithesis
using the same pattern of words to show that two or more idea
tercet
A tercet is composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem
terza rhyme
a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three- line rhyme scheme
quatrian
a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines
acrostic
simple poem
sonnet
t is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.
epigram
a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statemen
limerick
a short, humorous, often ribald or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme
open form free verse
realively the same
psalms
songs
allegory
device in which characters or events in a literary, visual, or musical art form represent or symbolize ideas and concepts
myth
legend
parody
current use, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target,
ellegy
a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song
3 steps to reading a poem
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3 varieties of poems
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lyric
express personal or emotional feelings and is traditionally the home of the present tense.
naritive poetry
tells a story
didactic
philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art
tone
the way the poems sound
persona
narrator
ironic point of view
point of view where the author
diction
concrete
abstract
reason for writng
solid
vague
allusion
a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or a representation of, people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art
valgate
late 4th-century Latin translation of the Bible.
colloquial
is when you make a poem and it has inccorect words that we use today for exampl
formal english
correct english
dialect
speech in a peom
denotation v. conotation
Denotation refers to the literal meaning of a word, the “dictionary definition.”¨ For example, if you look up the word snake in a dictionary, you will discover that one of its denotative meanings is “any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles¡Khaving a long, tapering, cylindrical body and found in most tropical and temperate regions.”
Connotation, on the other hand, refers to the associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional suggestions related to that word. The connotative meanings of a word exist together with the denotative meanings. The connotations for the word snake could include evil or danger.
imagery
what the poem makes u imagine
simile
comparason using like or as
metaphor
comparison not using like or as
implied metaphor
metaphor that compares two things without being obvious
extended metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines
mixed metaphor
A mixed metaphor is one that leaps from one identification to a second identification inconsistent with the first
epigrapg
a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component.
apostrophe
An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing
overstatement v. understatement
overstatement takes something too far
understatemetn doesnt go far enough
metonymy
a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept
synecdoche
is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole of something, or vice-versa
transferred ephithet
a type of metaphorical language in which a modifier is applied to something that it doesn’t literally
paradox
s an argument that produces an inconsistency
pun
short joke
pesronificatin
giving human attributes to a innanimate object
ballad
s a form of verse, often a narrative set to music
euphony v. cacophany
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alliteration v. assonance
the repetition of a particular sound in the prominent lifts
rime
rhyme
exact rime v. slant rime
slant rhyme has a offset rule
consonance
poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession
end rime
rhyme at the end of a poem
internal rime
rhyme in a specific order
