Part. 1 Flashcards
What is said is not what is meant to be understoood
Figurative language
What is expressed is exactly what it is said. Words as defined
Literal
Comparison of two things using like or as
Simile
Two things are compared without as or like. (To be or have)
Metaphor
Gives human features ot traits to unanimated objects
Personification
Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect
Hyperbole
Expression with less strenght than expected
Understatement
A type of brief poem that expresses personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker ;usually in first person
Lyric
Lyrics include….
Sonnet, elegy, ode, ballad and song
The subject matter of the lyric is __________ (grief, public emotions, celebration, reverance)
Expressive
Form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to its apparent meaning
Poetry
Poetry can also be in __________.
Poetic drama, hymns, lyrics or prose poetry
Poems use verse, which is
Figurative language
Prose poetry is
Literal language
From the point of view of lyric ______ and _______ are the most important functions. Used for aesthetic language
Emotive and poetic
Ability to manipulate language in creative ways
Poetic functions
When the message focuses on the sender
Emotive function
Refers to the figures of speech; prevails in the poetic function
Aesthetic value
Potential of the lyric text, context and expression; transmitting experiences or thoughts
Communicative value
Latin American Poetry is in….
Spanish and Portuguese
L.A poetry unifies _____ and _____ cultures as well as _______ traditions
Imperial
Indigenous
African
When did the world begin to notice LA poetry?
Why?
60s
Modernismo movement
Written in Nahuatl; found and recorded by Bernardino de Sahagún from Aztecs.
Pre Columbian Poetry
Followed European trends like romantic ballads as well as satire. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Colonial Era
From ballads to modern short forms; revolution, influential leaders, liberation
19th century
Movement orginated in LA by Rubén Darío. Rebels against romanticism; 19th century
Modernismo
Multicultural approach (women, africo hispanos, indigenous groups); After modernismo
20th century
Currents after ww2:
Cubism Futurism Dadaism Ultraism Surrealism
Slavador Dalí was influenced by
Spanish surreailism
Self-reflective art form that threw away constraints of beauty as a common theme
Vanguardista
Nobel Prize winners with Surrealism
Gabriela Mistral
Pablo Neruda
Octavio Paz
Pre colombian poet
Nezahaualcoyotl
Alfonsina Storni anf Gabriela Mistral
19th century
Neruda, Parra, Paz, Borges, Bolaño, Reyes
20th century
The emperor poet; Texcoco 1402, ruled in 1431. Reorganized the kingdom, laws, rebuilt the city and sought economic flowering
$100 pesos bill poem
Nezahualcoyotl
Nezahualcoyotl worte
El Tezontle
Nun who wrote the first feminist manifesto. Prodigy, published writer. New Spain 1651; talked about the queen
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
For those who are with greatness born should live not for themselves alone.
If fual torment is to be my one condition, both loving I would quit
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
1892 Switzerland- Argentina. Passionate erotism to dark despair. Suicide 1938, Obra Poetica Completa 1961
Alfonsina Storni
Storni is from the ….
19th century modernism
Little Little Man
I’m going to sleep
Alfonsina Storni
Part of Generacion 27, Le Maleficio de la Mariposa, Impresiones y Viajes. Was arrested in a protest in Granada and killed in 1936; 20th century
Federico García Lorca
The Ballad of the Moon; inituated vanguardismo/surrealim
García Lorca
Mexico City, 1914; the laberyth of solitude, piedra del sol, ambassador of Infia (rejects charge after Tlatelolco)
1990/1998 Nobel Prize
Octavio Paz
As one listens to the rain
Octavio Paz
