Unit 7 Flashcards
Poetry is artfully compressed thought resulting in the elevated expression of ideas (word for word)
Poetry
Words that Appel to one or more of the five sense
Concrete Language
The meaning of a word plus all of its implications and emotional associations
Connotative Language
A regular pace or beat
Rhythm
Divisions in poetry based on thought, meter, or rhyme and recognized by the number of lines they contain
Stanza
A brief poem expressing the personal views of a single speaker on a particular topic.
Lyric Poem
A composition written in meter
Verse
Verse having end rhyme and regular meter
Rhymed Verse
The pattern of rhyme and regular meter
Rhyme Scheme
Poetry who’s first eight lines form a distinct unit of thought and whose last six lines form another
Italian Sonnet
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank Verse
Poetry with no set meter or rhyme
Free Verse
A pair of rhymed lines
Couplet
A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter
Heroic Couplet
Poetry whose thought is usually distributed over three quatrains with a concluding couplet, the whole rhyming abab cdcd efef go
English Sonnet
A stanza or poem of four lines
Quatrain
A stanza of three lines that usually share the same rhyme
Triplet
A stanza of six lines
Sestet
A stanza of eight lines
Octave
Poetry differs from prose in the following:
It uses the marks and modes of literature with greater intensity
It more often uses languages for both its meaning and beauty
It values imagination and emotion more
Imagery may appear in poems in the following forms:
Concrete language
Allusions
Imaginative comparison
The sounds of a poem can do all of the following:
They can add to a poem’s aesthetic appeal
They can enhance a poem’s mood
They can ass emphasis to parts of a poem
The most basic structural division of poetry is the
Line
It is sometimes helpful to consider what
To consider which word a poet did not use at a certain point
