new poetry terms

Question 1

aphorism

Answer 1

a brief, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life

Question 2

end-stopped line

Answer 2

line of verse with a pause at the end, often signaled by a comma of period

Question 3

metonomy

Answer 3

a figure of speech in which something is very closely associated with a thing used to stand for or suggested the thing itself. (Ex. The PEN is mightier than the SWORD.)

Question 4

naturalism

Answer 4

extreme form of realism, focusing on the sordid side of life

Question 5

realism

Answer 5

attempt in literature and art to represent life as it really is, without sentimentalizing it or idealizing it.

Question 6

run-on-line

Answer 6

line of poetry that has no pause at the end but “runs on” naturally to the next line.

Question 7

synecdoche

Answer 7

figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole or vise versa (Ex. HEAD for cattle or LAW for policemen)

Question 8

amphibrach

Answer 8

unaccented, scented, unaccented pattern of rhythm. seldom used to construct the entire poem.

Question 9

spondaic

Answer 9

accented, accented pattern of rhythmic foot (rarely used to construct entire poem)

Question 10

Karl shipiros purpose for rhyme

Answer 10

1 the musical
2 the emphatic
3 the architectural (for stanzaic poetry)
4 the sense of direction
5 the effect of rests