lecture IV

Question 1

poetry

Answer 1

type of literature involving condensed, often symbolic language and unusual syntax

Question 2

poetics

Answer 2

• the idea that literature can communicate meaning through formal aspects such as symbolism, rhyme, structure etc
• poetics means the process of meaning inherent in the literary work. It assumes there are elements in a work that can be found, and that a work can be read on its own terms.
• the poetics of any given text
  involve how the text is creating meaning, or, in
  other words, how the text would like you to
  read it.
• This sets it apart from context in that it is
  something we must acknowledge as separate
  from our own reception of the text.

Question 3

hermeneutics

Answer 3

the rules of interpretation we agree upon as readers/critics, sometimes involves literary theiry

Question 4

poetics: poetic form

Answer 4

• Caesura
• Run-On
• Scansion
• Rhyme (end rhyme, alliteration, internal
  rhyme, eye rhyme, half rhyme)

Question 5

poetics: language form

Answer 5

• Neologism
• Register
• Word Choice
• Omission

Question 6

poetics: figurative language

Answer 6

symbol
metaphor
metonomy

Question 7

symbols

Answer 7

A word or phrase that signifies an object or
event which in its turn signifies something, or
has a range of references, beyond itself

Question 8

metaphor

Answer 8

Metaphorical = figurative rather than literal.

The metaphor invites association: you are
invited to compare two things and draw on
their overlap.

Metaphors can be singular or get extended.

there is figurative language that works metaphorically:
● Simile: a direct comparison involving ‘like’ or
‘as’ (or similar words)
● Personification: an item, phenomenon or
animal is given human characteristics.
● Dead metaphor: It’s dead, Jim. (Leg of a
table).
● Allusion: a reference, inviting comparison, to
something complex (a character with a large
backstory, a myth or legend, Biblical text, etc.)
● Allegory: one series of actions are linked to a
different series of actions (parallel)

Question 9

metonymy

Answer 9

we use something closely
associated with the original to stand in for the
original. (The Crown, Hollywood, The White
House)

● Hyperbole: same through exaggeration.
● Oxymoron: combining two opposites.
● Synecdoche: when a part stands for the
whole. (All hands on deck, mouths to feed)