Lesson 1.2: Poetry Flashcards
according to tomeldan, poetry is…
like a song, is an expression of a feeling, an insight a discovery
accrdng to romero and de los reyes, poetry is…
a major genre of literature that uses a more concentrated style than other literary forms
five things to have to remember about poetry
poetry is…
concentrated thought
kind of word-music
expresses all the senses
answers our demand for rhythm
observation plus imagination
elements of poetry
sense
sound
structure
sense
is revealed through the meaning of words, images and symbols.
diction
denotative/ connotative meanings and symbols
denotative
actual and literal meaning
connotative
hidden meaning
image and sense impression
sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, motion, and emotion
apostrophe
direct address to someone absent, dead, or inanimate
metonomy
substitute a word that closely relates to a person or a thing
synecdoche
Uses a part to represent
the whole
allusion
refers to any literary,
biblical, historical,
mythological, scientific
antithesis
contrast of words or ideas
paradox
Uses phrases or
statement that on
surface seems
contradictor, but makes
some kind of emotional
sense
litotes
Makes a deliberate
understatement used to
affirm by negating its
opposite.
oxymoron
Puts together in one
statement two
contradictory terms
tone color
alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, repetition, anaphora
rhythm
ordered recurrent alteration of strong and weak elements
in the flow of the sound and silence: duple, triple, running or
common rhyme
meter
stress, duration, or number of syllables per line, fixed
metrical pattern, or a verse form: quantitative syllabic, accentual,
and accentual syllabic
rhyme scheme
arrangement of rhymes in stanza or the
poem.
true rhyme
occurs on the words. you can hear them
internal rhyme
occurs within lines
off rhyme or slant rhyme
almost sounds like
structure
refers to (1) arrangement of words, and lines to fit together, (2)
the organization of the parts to form a whole.
word order
natural and unnatural arrangement of words
ellipsis
omitting some words for economy and effect
punctuation
abundance or lack of punctuation marks
shape
contextual and visual designs: jumps, omission of spaces,
capitalization, lower case.
three types of poetry
descriptive- focuses on details. didactic
narrative- tells a story. epic ballad
lyric poem- expresses feelings and thoughts. ode. sonnet. dramatic, monolog