terms 9 Flashcards
a poem of fourteen lines devoted to the dignified and thoughtful expression of emotion, sentiment, or idea
sonnet
a fourteen line sonnet with three quatrains and a final couplet
spencerian sonnet
a foot of two syllables which are in ordinary speech equally heavy
spondee
conventionalized, much-repeated phrases; differs from a cliche
stock epithets
measures of meter which cannot be used for an entire poem but which can be used in substitution
substitute feet
symbol, literary
a thing, event, a person, quality, or relationship that functions simultaneously in two ways: as itsself and as a sign of something outside itself
symbol, conventional
objections that have a certain significance common in both art and life
synesthesia
an attempt to fuse different senses
symbol, nonce
a symbol that a water himself invents for a particular purpose or occasion
synecdoche
a figure of speech where the part is substituted for the whole
tetrameter
a line of four ‘measures’ or feet
tercet
a three line stanza
terzarima
interlocking tercets rhyming
trimeter
a line of three measures or feet
triple meters
three syllables per foot
