Vocab 11 Flashcards
The pattern consists of a regular number of stressed syllables appropriately arranged within a fixed total of syllables in the line w/ permissible variations including feminine endings, both stressed and unstressed syllables being counted. The descriptive terms most commonly used to analyze it have been inherited from the vocab of the very different Greek and Latin quantitative system.
Accentual-syllabic metre
The stressed pattern is reversed
Anapaestic metre
The stressed syllables are felt to precede the intervening pairs of unstressed syllables
Dactylic metre
Of the two duple meters by far the more common in English is the blank metre, in which the stressed syllables are for the most part perceived as following the unstressed syllables with which they alternate, although some variations on this pattern are accepted.
Iambic metre
The pattern of measured sound-units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verse. Poetry may be composed according to one of four principal metrical systems: 1) quantitative 2) syllabic metre 3) accentual 4) accentual-syllabic metre
Metre
A literary or dramatic style or principal based on extreme restriction of a work’s contents to a bare minimum of necessary elements, normally within a short form, e.g. A haiku, epigram, brief dramatic sketch, or monologue. Often characterized by a bare essentials or starkness of vocabulary or of dramatic setting and a reticence verging on or even becoming silence. The term has been borrowed from modern sculpture and painting, and applied especially to the later dramatic work of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett with a 30 sec play on Breath it has no characters or words
Minimalism
A kind of medieval religious play representing non-scriptural legends of saints or of the Virgin Mary. The term is often confusingly applied also to the mystery plays, which form a distinct body of drama based on biblical stories. Thanks to the book-burning zeal of the English Reformation, no significant blank plays survive in English but there is a French cycle of forty blank de Notre-Dame probably dating from the 14th century
Miracle play
Helpful in remembering something or a form of words or letters that assists the memory, e.g. The rhyme beginning ‘the thirty days hath September’. Rhyming verse is often employed
Mnemonic
A poem employing the lofty style and the conventions of epic poetry to describe a trivial or undignified series of events; thus a kind of satire that mocks its subject by treating it in an inappropriately grandiose manner, usually at some length. Blank incidentally make fun of the elaborate conventions of epic poetry, including invocations,battles,supernatural machinery, epic similes, and formulaic descriptions (funeral rites or of warriors arming for combat). The outstanding examples in English are Alexander Popes The Rape Of Lock and The Dunciad, while Boileau’s Le Lutrin is an important French Example
Mock epic
Written in an ironically grand style that is comically incongruous with the “low” or trivial subject treated. This adj is commonly applied to mock epics, but serve for works or parts of works using the same comic method in various forms other than that of a full-scale mock-epic poem. Swifts prose satire The Battle of the Books is an important case as in Byrons intermittently blank poem Don Juan. Also Ben Jonson’s On the Famous Voyage and Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe they are not mock epics bc they aren’t divided into cantos. Also Henry Fielding’s Tom Thumb
Mock-heroic
Found in Old English and in later English popular verse, the pattern is a regular number of stressed syllables in the line or group of lines, regardless of the number of unstressed syllables
Accentual metre
A general term applied retrospectively to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in the literature and other arts of the early 20th century, including Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism, Imagism, Vorticism, Dada, and Surrealism along w/ the innovations of unaffiliated writers. It is often characterized by a rejection of nineteenth century traditions and of their consensus between author and reader: the conventions of realism were abandoned by Franz Kafka and other novelists, and by expressionist drama, while several poets rejected traditional meters in favor of free verse. Blank writers tend to see themselves as an avant-grade, disengaged from bourgeois values, and disturbed their readers by adopting complex and difficult new forms and styles. In fiction it was upset by Joseph Conrad, Marcel Proust, and Faulkner, while James Joyce and Virginia Woolf attempted new ways of tracing the flow of characters thoughts in their stream of consciousness styles. In poetry Ezra Pound and T.S Elliot replaced the logical exposition of thoughts with collages of fragmentary images and complex allusions. Luigi Pirandello and Bertolt Brecht opened up the theatre to new forms of abstraction in place of realist and naturalist representation. Blank writing is primarily cosmopolitan and often expresses a sense of urban cultural dislocation, along with an awareness of new anthropology and psychological theories. It favored juxtaposition and multiple view point challenge the reader to re-establish a coherent of meaning from fragmentary forms. In English it’s major landmarks are Joyce’s Ulysses and Eliot’s The Waste Landscape
Modernism
An extended speech uttered by one speaker, either to others or as if alone. Significant varieties include the dramatic monologue and the soliloquy. Examples are Beckett Krapp’s Last Tape. In prose the interior blank is a representation of a characters unspoken thoughts, sometimes rendered in the style known as a stream of consciousness.
Monologue
As in French and Japanese, the pattern compromises a fixed number of syllables in the line (in blank verse the lines are measured according to the number of syllables they contain, regardless of the number of stresses.
Syllabic metre
The other duple metre, used in English less frequently than the iambic, in which the iambic pattern is reversed so that the stressed syllables are felt to be preceding the unstressed syllables with which they alternate in terms of classical feet, blank verse is said to be made up predominantly of blanks. It’s common for poets to begin and end the line on a stressed syllable
Trochaic metre
