Unit 7 Flashcards
What are the elements of poetry
Imagery
Word choices
Sounds
Structure
Is artfully compressed thought resulting in the elevated expression of ideas
Poetry
Words that appeal to one or more of the 5 senses
Concrete language
The meaning of a word plus all of its implicit and emotional associations
Connotative language
A regular pace or beat
Rhythm
Divisions in poetry based on thought,meter, or rhyme and recognized by number of lines they contain
Stanza
A brief poem expressing the personal views of a single speaker
Lyric poem
Composition written in meter
Verse
Having end rhyme and regular meter
Rhymed verse
Pattern of rhyme and regular meter
Rhyme scheme
Poetry whose 1st 8 lines form a distinct unit of thoughts
Italian sonnet
Poetry whose thought is usually disturbed over 3 quatrains with a concluding couplet, the whole
English sonnet
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
Poetry with no set meter or rhyme
Free verse
A pair of rhymed lines
Couplet
Pairing of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter
Heroic couplet
Stanza or poem of 4 lines
Quatrain
Stanza of 3 lines that usually share the same rhyme
Triplet
Stanza of 6 lines
Sestet
Stanza of 8 lines
Octave
How does poetry differ from prose
It uses the marks and modes of literature with great intensity
It more often uses language for both its meaning and beauty
It values imagination and emotion more
Imagery may appear in poems in following forms
Concrete language
Allusions
Imaginative comparisons
What is the most basic structural division of poetry
The line
The structure of exodus 15:1-8 is formed by what?
Parallelism
Repetition
What is the genre of exodus 15:1-8?
Lyric poetry
What enhances exodus 15:1-8?
Parallelism
In snow-bound what is the genre?
Narrative poetry
What is the main imagery of indoor setting in snow-bound
Fire
What is whittier’s tone toward nature
It is neutral there is a danger but also a beauty
What are the 2 main purposes that the traditional ballad form serve in lady Claire
Are to entertain listeners
And to pass a cultures world view down to future generations
What are the symbols of lady Claire
The lily-white dove, the diamond, the clack, and the rose
In If I had the choice what is Whitman’s poetic model
The sea
Does the poem If I had the choice use meter and rhythm
Yes, some
What is the overall atmosphere of we wear the mask
Distress
What is the central image of we wear the mask
The smiling mask that the speaker wears constantly
What does the mask in we wear the mask illustrate
It illustrates how humans hide there feelings
Is the theme of we wear the mask universal?
Yes
In the poem the Panther through imaginative comparisons, Rilke uses what?
Mystic imagery, and theatre imagery
What is the closing atmosphere of the Panther
Negative and sad
What are the symbols of the Panther
Bars: restrictive barrier
Panther himself: represents vision of reality
Cramped circles: suffocating routine of daily life
The image: could represent that glimpse of reality occurs momentarily
In snow in the suburbs what did hardy use to connect couplets and their content
Rhyme
In snow in the suburbs his poem moves from a what to a more what at the end
- Light hearted humorous tone
2. Serious tone
High flight is an example of what sonnet?
An Italian sonnet
What is laughter-silvered wings is an example of what?in High flight
Synthesia
