Module 3 Terminology Flashcards
Speaker
Narrator of a poem
Stanza
distinct group of lines in a poem, separated from other stanzas by section breaks
Pratt Personification and Enjambment
And when I mused how Time had thinned
The jungle strains within the cells (9-10)
-personification: time
enjambment: time has grown this vs time has reduces cats genetic wildness
Nonessential Elements
a word, phrase, or clause that is not essential to the sentence ;
-does not restrict a terms meaning
-in not one of the required elements for a clause
-used commons before and after
Subject- Verb Agreement
-a verb must agree its subject in number
-singular subject requires singular verb, plural subject requires plural verb
ex) Station 11 and The Marrow Thieves are novels about…
Enjambment
the movement from one line to the next without a terminating punctuation mark
Free Verse
poetry whose rhythmic structure doesnt follow a regular metrical pattern
Rhyme
Perfect: goat, boat
Imperfect: boat, bet (slant rhyme) - bough, through, trough (eye rhyme)
Meter
a regular pattern in the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
Metric Feet: Iamb
Iambic: an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
ex) is this the face that launched a thousand ships
Metric Feet: Trochee
Trochaic: a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
ex) double, double, toil and trouble
Elision
removal of an unstressed syllable, consonants, or letters from a word or phrase -missing letter is replaced by apostrophe
ne’er (never)
Counting Feet
type of foot and number of times used in line= meter
mono, di, tri, tetra, penta
Dangling Modifier
grammatical error in which a word or phrase is meant to modify a noun or pronoun that doesn’t appear in the sentence and thus modifies the closest noun
Misplaced Modifier
a grammatical error in which a word or phrase is meant to modify on noun, pronoun, because of its placement in the sentence which actually modifies something else
