Content Flashcards

Question

Assounence

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Stress syllables close together

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Speakers have a short time to change ur thinking about something, so rely on rhetorical technoqies (repition, satire, outrage_ chosen to max persiasivness

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exaggeration

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Subject matter frequently focuses on identity, racism, trauma, althoigh anyone can do spoken word, it has acquired association woth giiven voice to those marginalized

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Very commonly-used figures of speech. -Common in spoken word and slam poetry

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Substitution of the name of an attribute or an adjunct for the name of the thing Instead of calling something by proper name, you cjoose to refcer to something associated with it or added onto ot -Did winnipeg win last night?

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Makes a statement more vivid and concise Focuses your attention on concrete and salient details Makes you think about things in a certain way (assert unity)

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Substitution of a part for a whole or the whole for a part (including in processes) -All hands on deck -The gov. made a statement -that guy is a asshole

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Focus attention. on a particular detail that it asserts is definitive and often belittling ways Alter our perception of the relationship between indviduals and institutions, alter our understanding process

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S: X is part of Y M: X is associated with Y

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Imposition of a false uniformitu onto a group -Metonymy: Claims that certain characteristics are universally shared by members of that group, and that those characteristics are definitive -Synecdoche: Can single out an indv. from a group and assert that the indvidual prossesses certain charaterstics based on membership of the group

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Importance or pressure -Expectation and change

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Lyrics and songs are associated with the author especially in singin as voice gives meaning

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Persona, misunderstand poem if we fail to perceive that

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Allows writers to inhabit an identity other than their own, to be freed from the necessity of being themselves and to imagine other perspectives -Sympathy and understanding: how the speaker came to hold a particular view of identity -Critque: How an ostensibly admirable or socially sanctioned identity rests on some dark emotion or trauma

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Dramatic Monologue

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Only one voice speaking, presents a single consciousness to the reader

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Occurs in a specific situation, which must be inferred from what the voice says The situation usually involves the pursuit of some goal or some conflict

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Fiction Present a fictional persona, whose words give us a sense of that persona's inner reality in ways that feel unrealistic. Must infer charatcer based on speakers own words Moments of relvelation, speaker lets something slip Reveals true character beneth performance

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Make things odd, controversial tpone

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Exploying different meanings of the word

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Compares two different things drowning in work

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Compares two different things using like or as

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2 Opposites side by side

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Contrasting parallel structres represemts absolute processes REPREsents of opposiyes

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Using similar words phrases or clauses to express similar ideas

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Cuz the speaker/persona is a white man and she is a black women, adds effect

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At the end it sound gives insight to how the man is unwell, without that we would just know he misses his wife

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Feel the speakers Disilllusionmet but alos gives outside perspective Would need a voice that can flit in and out of the woman's conciousness, could not be a lyric

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Include regularly recurring features, which give some predictability -Repeating units (STANZA), line length, rhythmic patter, sound effect -Only one needs to occur to call it closed -However these features will not have meaning to the poem themselves

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Include any features or not but it wont include them consistently or regulary -Nor predictability

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Has a significant effect, put there for a reason

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Closed, with open everything needs to have a reason

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Features on a page that cannot be seen spoken -Caps, Manipulation of white space

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Speaker yearns for proof of god to exist HOW: Earning Language that evokes violence and sexual violence (ravish me, break me, blow, burn. Love = Pleasant and then Enemy (back to violence) Doesn't want religion to be safe and cerebral: he wants emotional and physical involving all of his being, as human love

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Enjament makes it a continous thought but also a confusing (seperate stanzas) You used which can mean more than one thing. General to specific, gets more intimate as it goes You= (General)Pleasent and bliss (specific) Intimate I= Indequecy General: Please but still I back connecting with group Spring darkness if forgiving:Forgiving Cirtisiszing self: Isolation and incapacity Flying when I can: Forgiving The world, and reflect and realize do what you can You to I -Corresponds with subject matter of poem -general experience (you), to intimate experience (you), to isolation (i) and than reconnecting with group (i)

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RHYTHM Spondee creates a harshness -Effects tone, and slows you down, strutting, seems cool Unstressed at end seems continous until Terminal Truncation ends preamturely, such as the reader life (die soon) Allteration creates a harshness in sound effects

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Lines get progressively longer Iamic diameter, tetrameter, pentameter Could relate to her emotions Control at the beginning but mentions new friend and starts to become more jealous, less cool

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Sound effects to portray aggression but counter intuative the poetry being described is not what is classic, but saying the claim to classic and stuck in ways Several Spondess give an emphasizing effect and dramatic, yelling at you vibe, uncomfortable and aggressive Own Horse Town, remote lacking diversity and wealth, implying that this mindset is impoverished

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Depicts gods power using rhythm and sound effects Spondee/ lots of stressed syllables = elongating the words/lines and seem powerful and heavy like god Have trod, have trod, have trod, bleared, smeared, with toil mans smell, the soil Lines slow and heavy because they contrast human civiliazation (dull and dreaded) to the natural world alive with gods energy

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The poem gradually blames whitey for the problems Starts with a solid verse form, quatrians of iambic tetrameter but then 8 line stanza of complaints shows no refrain and blaming whitey for probems.

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The repetition/anaphora of "Let me tell you" shows the importance and aggression Transfer and conflict of the stereotype of what society inflicts versus what is true, let me tell you myself And I still feel: shows the empowerment that despite the bad he still feels proud

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Jealously of his wife seems admiring and then not, it seems like he killed her out of jealousy. Prefers her dead, where she can't do or say anything Enjambment: Creates a controversial tone, obscures rhyme and rhythm: Seemingly friendly situation at odds with the subject manner Personification: of the painting -Collapse of distinction between the person and the representation of the person emphasizes the dukes power as a patron Possessiveness: Mine, I Can't separate her behaviour from the process of turning women into art Symbolism: Duke values things for what they represent, dutchess for what they are

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Parallel structure in comparing the 4 women, hair, skin town, attribuye, question about name, name stated twice All fit stereotypes except the last one, black women who doesnt fit a sterotype angry, but her name is peaches (name doesnt equal stereootype) -Also a change in structure doesnt have parallel structure, no hair comment All of the 4 deny women full humanity, by describing how they look and a small part of their life that doesnt describe their humanity (rather something superficial) anger, cater to men, etc

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Voice: You would never understand the pain and insanity he feels about missing his woman if you didn't hear the last lines. I would think just a man, a love letter and sad. This adds a level of insanity you can't get in words Uses situation and setting to create a atmosphere that infers the speakers emotions are blank.

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Voice: She is speaking but the persona is not her. Interesting as it is a white man rather than who she is (black woman) -Exactly the type of person the speaker may target Could create sympathy using accident but removes it by using racial slurs and terms He is living in squalid conditions, and violence is appauing. zThese are used to justify his view and action using vigilante mission or religion to reinterprod these signs of deprivation and beautiful.

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Voice is important: -Times speaker is close to being in the woman's head -Other times speakers says things that the woman could not be conscious of (Outsider) -Makes you feel her disllusioment but also gives a outsider perspective that allows the reader to understand the theme (full story) Break rules (convential living) but unless you also break the roles (gender) you recreate the same conventions you tried to escape Ironic title as they are not living in sin, but rather break convection by not getting married but still follow teh convential roles. (not a sin)

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Open form SIngle words on lines, different spacing, Childhood and adolence turining into something else (see differences in sturcture in last stanza), -No description of spring, or what the children names or what they are doing -We need to decide Ballonman becomes more strange and sinsister ofer the course of the poem Adjective: Little and lame, to old and queer to goat-footed (pan god). mroe and more of a threat. -Around children, lack of them being there as it gets worse

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Your are expected to hide from others but you cannot hide from yourself (being gay) or else self distructive -Asserts a life lived with integrity (coming out) even though is right, will not necessarily be without pain -Structure: Shows pain, short groupings of lines, that imply pain and that he must overcome resistance to speak his mind