poetry Flashcards
what’s the traditional form if it has 3 quotations, then 2 at the end?
Shakesperan sonnet
What’s a ballad?
A poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme
What is it called when there’s 3 lines that rhyme?
A tercet
What are the suggested uses of a tercet?
Story - telling,embedding meaning, juxtaposition
What is it called if it has 6 lines and what does it usually mean?
Sestet and the suggested uses are exploring complex problems
What if it has 6 lines?
Quintain
What’s a verse with 4 lines?
A quatrain
What is it called when there’s a punctuation in the middle of a line?
Caesura
What’s a verse with 2 lines?
A couplet
Which traditional form is it called if it has 1 verse - 8 lines and second has 6 lines?
Italian sonnet
What is the technique called when it directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for a rhetorical effect?
Metaphor
What is two things being seen or placed close together with a contrasting effect ?
Juxtaposition
Give an example of a juxtaposition
“Small person and a tall person”
What is a sombre
A dull colour tone or mood within the poem representing a gloomy and shadowy atmosphere
What’s a hyperbole
Exaggeration effect
What’s conversational tone and give an example
“You should see the New Jane Brown Cafe”
What’s the technique called when it’s the theme of feeling numb or bittersweet
Oxymoron
What’s the technique for expressing sadness or being a severe form of depression
Melancholy
What’s the synonym of technique for reminiscing over something, (reminds us of something)
Evocative
What are the main things to focus on when analysing a poem
• subject matter • compare and contrast • mood/tone • theme • content/ subject matter • structure(stanzas, rhythm, rhyme) • title • techniques • beginning and ending • people and place • embedded quantisations • analysis • speculation • tracking text • Appeal to the senses!!!!
what does infatuation mean
short term love
What is the use of one sensory image to describe another
Synesthesia
Name significant connectives
However Yet Similarly Likewise In another way On the other hand Furthermore Moreover Additionally In Addition As well as this
Name connectives to be a Introduction to a paragraph
… appears to be written in the form They both emulate The poets follow different structures Both poems focus In contrast In the same way Both poems discuss They both mirror The theme slowly coordinates This echoes further down… This reveals… Also perhaps… Contrastingly Interestingly Having said that It’s narrated in…
