New poetic terminology Flashcards
What is liebestod?
The theme of erotic death between to partners in a relationship who find sexual gratfifcation from death
What is fetishing?
To afford an object or person sexual connotations with a specific interest in a feature of the person or object
Diction
The choice of words or language used
Ballad
A poem consisting or three stanzas all ending with the same line (refrain)
Anthropormorphism
Where an animal is given human qualities.
Litotes
Deliberately making an understatement (direct contrast to hyperbole)
Analepsis
A description of an event from an earlier time that interrupts a chronological narrative (a literary flashback)
Envoy
The shorter final stanza of a poem
Prolepsis
a figure of speech in which a future act is represented as if already accomplished or existing.
Euphemism
The use of a soft indirect expression instead of one that is harsh or unpleasantly direct, e.g. ‘pass away’ rather than die.
Disphemism
The intentional use of a negative expression in writing where a positive expression would usually be used. These are used to humiliate or degrade a person or character.
Free verse
A poem which has no regular rhythm or rhyme scheme.
Dialect Lexis
Linking to accent, the specific words used by people from a certain area.
Repetend
where particular words are repeated throughout the poem erratically
Asyndeton
where connectives are left out of a sentence or line opf poetry which creates a list like style.
Polysyndeton
An overuse of the same connective, e.g. the use of ‘and’ between every item in a long list.
Refrain
A phrase, line or group of lines that are repeated throughout a poem, usually after every stanza.
Metonymy
using the name of an object to represent a bigger idea which its related to, e.g. ‘crown’ for monarchy.
Refication
To give something alive qualities of an inanimate object.
