Week 2 Flashcards
Alliteration
Repetition of the first sound
Opposition
A xxxxx xxxx xxxxx
xxxxxx xxxxx B
Oxymoron
xxxxxx A/B xxxx xxxx
Elegy
- A song for a lost love
- Poems for lost
Ballad (time + origin)
14th Century —- Folk Music
Ballad
A narrative poem of popular origin
A narrative song with a recurrent refrain
Eye rhyme
- To your eye they look like they rime
- (eg. most - lost)
Most - Lost (rhyme type)
Eye rhyme
Rhymes that look like but sound different
Eye rhyme
Anything before 19th century ___
Always rhyme
Epigram
A clever saying
A clever saying
Epigram
Apostrophe
Address to an absent or imaginary person
Address to an absent or imaginary person
Apostrophe
1250-1500 (language)
Middle English
Germanic verse is based on
short line length
short line length are the basis of
Germanic verse
variation
multiple names for the same thing
multiple names for the same thing
variation
formulas
repeated blocks of words
repeated blocks of words
formulas
compounding (e.g.)
(e.g. gleobeam, ‘glee-beam’ = harp)
caesura
a midline pause
a midline pause
ceasura
mod
moody (mind, heart, care)
mind, heart, care (middle English)
mod - moody
Wyrd (ME - now + meaning)
Wierd, fate heart
MAXIM
A short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct.
A short, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct.
MAXIM
Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good
it is a ______
Maxim
