Sound and Sense Flashcards
Assonance
The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds
Aubade
A poem about dawn, a morning love song, or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn
Ballad
A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form
Blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
Cacophony
a harsh discordant unpleasant-sounding choice and arangement of sounds
Caesura
a speech pause occuring within a line
Connotation
What a word suggests
Consonance
The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds
Continuous form
That form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping
Couplet
Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme
Dactyl
A merical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables
Dactylic meter
A metter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls
Denotation
The basic definition of a word
Didactic poetry
poetry having as a primary purpose to teach
Dimeter
A metrical line containing two feet
Dramatic framework
The situation whether actual or fictional realist r fanciful in which an author places his or her characters in order to express the theme
Duple meter
A meter in which a majority of the feet contain two sylables
End rhyme
rhymes that occur at the end of the lines
End stopped line
a line that ends with natural speech and punctuation
English (Shakespearean) sonnet
sonnet ryming ababcdcdefefgg
Euphony
a smooth pleasant sounding arangement of words
Expected rhythm
the rhythmic expectation set up by the basic meter of a poem
Extended figure
A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem
Extrametrical syllables
extra unaccented syllables added at the beginnings or endings of lines
feminine rhyme
repeated accented vowel is in either the second or the third-last syllable of the words involved (ceiling-appealing hurrying-scurrying)
Figurative Language
Language employing figures of speech
Figure of speech
Saying something in a non-ordinary way
Fixed form
any form of a poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition (sonnet, villanelle, …)
Folk ballad
poem designed to be sung, composed anonymously, transmitted orally
Foot
basic unit of metrical verse
form
pattern or shape of a poem
Free verse
nonmetrical poetry, basic rhythmis unit is the line, natural pauses, line breaks, etc
Grammatical pause (caesura)
a pause introduced into the reading of a line, usually by punctuation
Heard rhythm
the actual rhythm of a metrical poem as we hear is when it is read naturally
Hexameter
line containing six feet
Hexameter
line containing six feet
hyperbole
overstatement
lamb
a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable
Iambic meter
Majority of feet are iambs
Imagery
representation through language of sense experience
Internal rhyme
One or both rhyme words ocur within the line
Irony
Situation involving some kind of discrepancy
Verbal irony
say something, meant the opposite
Dramatic irony
Author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker
Situational irony
Incongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate (or what is anticipated and what actually happens) (PLOT TWIST)
Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet
sonnet with octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet cdcdcd or cdecde
Masculine rhyme
rhyme where the repeated accented vowel is the final syllable (dance-pants or scald-recalled)
Metaphor
duh
meter
regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse (measurable repetition)
metonymy
where some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience
metrical variations
variations in meter
monometer
one foot
octave
eight line stanza
onomatopoeia
BOOM
overstatement
an overstatement
oxymoron
paradox with two successive words
paradox
statement containing contradictory elements
paradoxical situation
situation containing contradictory elements
paradoxical statement (verbal paradox)
paradox that is found to be true
paraphrase
restatement
pentameter
five feet in one line
personification
you should know this
Petrarchan sonnet
Italian sonnet
phonetic intensive
a word whose sound suggests its meaning (not onomatopea)
prose meaning
poems total meaning that can be separated out and expressed through paraphrase
prose poem
short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose instead of verse
quatrain
four line stanza
quatrain
four line stanza
refrain
a repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines
rhetorical pause
natural pause, unmarked by punctuation
rhetorical poetry
poetry using artificially eloquent language
rhetorical stress
stressing of words or syllables to emphasize meaning or structure
rhyme
repetition of the accented vowel
rhyme scheme
fixed pattern of rhymes
rhythm
wavelike recurrence of motion or sound
run on line
a line that has no natural speech pause at its end
sarcasm
bitter or cutting speech
satire
a kind of literature that ridicules human folly
Scansion
the process of measuring metrical verse that is of marking accented and unaccented syllables
sentimental poetry
poetry that attempts to manipulate the reader’s emotions in order to achieve a greater emotional response
sestet
six line stanza
sestet
six line stanza
simile
you should know this
sonnet
fixed form of fourteen lines
spondee
foot consisting of two syllables equally accented (true-blue)
stanza
a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout a poem
stanzaic form
the form of a poem written in a series of units having the same number of lines and usually other characteristics in common
stress
same as Accent
structure
the internal organization of a poems content
substitution
replacement of the expected metrical foot by a different one
syllabic verse
verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line
symbol
symbol
synecdoche
a part is used for the whole
synesthesia
presentation of one sense experience in terms usually associated with another sensation
tercet
three line stanza
terza rima
aba bcb cdc
tetrameter
four feet
theme
central idea
tone
speakers attitude
total meaning
total experience communicated by a poem
trimeter
three feet
triple meter
a meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables
trochaic meter
majority of feet are trochees
trochee
foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable
truncation
omission of an unaccented syllable and either end of a line
understatement
understatement
verse
metrical langrage (opposite of prose)
villanelle
nineteen line fixed form consisting of five tercets rhymed aba concluding abaa
verse
metrical language (opposite of prose)
