ENG1300 Chapter 13/14 Flashcards
Didactic Poetry
A poem intended to teach a moral lesson or impart a body of knowledge.
Tone
Mood or manner of expression in a literary work, conveys attitude towards the work’s subject - can be playful sarcastic, ironic, sad, etc. - helps establish reader’s relationship to characters or ideas presented in the work.
Irony
A discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.
Summary
A brief condensation of the main idea or plot of a work, sparsely detailed.
Lyric Poem
A short poem expressing thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, has a songlike immediacy and emotional force.
Verbal Irony
Mode of expression in which the speaker/writer says the opposite of what is really meant - such as “great story!” in response to a boring pointless anecdote.
Verse
Two major meanings: (1) refers to single line poetry or (2) composition written in separate lines of more or less regular rhythm, in contrast to prose.
Dramatic Monologue
Poem written as a speech made by a character at a decisive moment - usually addresses a silent listener.
Satiric Poetry
Poetry the blends criticism with humor to convey message, usually through use of irony, and a tone of detached amusement, withering contempt, and implied superiority.
Theme
A recurring subject or idea noticeably evident in a literary work. Pertains to the central idea.
Sarcasm
A style of bitter irony intended to hurt or mock its target.
Ballads and Epics
Two common forms of narrative poetry
Cosmic Irony
Contrast between a character’s position or aspiration, and the treatment he/she receives at the hands of a seemingly hostile fate - also called “irony of fate”
Narrative Poetry
A poem that tells a story, invokes both fictional writing techniques such as characters, settings, plot, as well as poetic conventions.
Ironic Point of View
When the “mask” (or persona) says one thing, and we sense that the writer is actually communicating something else.
