Ballad Technical 🙃 Flashcards
Anadiplosis
A redoubling, picking up the last word of a line or clause for repetition at the beginning of the next line or clause
Example of anaphora in Góngora’s ‘en los pinares de jucar’
Cuál de Flores impedido, cuál de cordones de plata
Antonomasia
Can be using an epithet instead of a proper name (eg ‘el ciego dios’ for Cupid) or the other way round (so using a proper name to designate something else having attributes associated with that name)
Examples of both types antomasia
‘Goza un PÃramo, barata, cualquiera Tisbe gallega’
-> quevedo’s ‘a la corte vas, Perico’
‘El ciego dios’ (for Cupid) -> góngora’s ‘en los pinares de Júcar’
Apostrophe
An address to an absent person, personified abstraction, or inanimate object as if it were capable of understanding
Example of apostrophe in Góngora’s ‘que nos va la pascua, mozas!’
‘Diente mio de mi alma, yo sé cuándo fuistes perla, aunque ahora no sois caña’
Example of asyndeton in Lope’s ‘el tronco de ovas vestido’
tronco, punta, vides, árbol
Example of chiasmus in ‘sale la estrella de venus’
‘Dejas un pobre muy rico y un rico muy pobre escoges’
Enumeration
Sequence of words that are grammatically equivalent
Epithet
An adjective used to define a distinctive quality of a person or thing; it often functions as a suffix or substitute for a name
Example of an epithet in Abenámar
‘Torres Bermejas’
Inversion/anastrophe
Unusual arrangement of words or clauses
Pun involving words with similar sound patterns, often in juxtaposition
Paranomasia
Examples of paranomasia from both quevedo’s ‘parióme adrede mi madre’ and Lope’s ‘a mis soledades voy’
Parióme: pretendiente/pretenmuela
Soledades: sin tratos, cuentas ni cuentos
Polyptoton
Repetition of words derived from the same root
