Suggested Answers to the Introductory Quiz
... 6. What is “syllabic meter”? Which prominent American poet used it? In contrast, what is quantitative meter and where was it employed? Considering these two types of meter, what is the prime element in English rhythm? (4) Syllabic meter measures only the number of syllables in a line, without regard ...
... 6. What is “syllabic meter”? Which prominent American poet used it? In contrast, what is quantitative meter and where was it employed? Considering these two types of meter, what is the prime element in English rhythm? (4) Syllabic meter measures only the number of syllables in a line, without regard ...
View a sample of the course outline.
... Evaluative Comments and Grades At the high school level, students are given numerical grades for each of their tests and assignments. We try to be as objective as we can be, but much of what we do is subjective by nature and with several people evaluating work, some will give higher grades than othe ...
... Evaluative Comments and Grades At the high school level, students are given numerical grades for each of their tests and assignments. We try to be as objective as we can be, but much of what we do is subjective by nature and with several people evaluating work, some will give higher grades than othe ...
Chaucer`s Prosody
... Chaucer confesses early in his career that his meter is sometimes irregular: he speaks of how “som vers fayle[s] in a silable” (House of Fame 1098). Yet this is an ambiguous self-deprecating gesture, since Chaucer may not be speaking about his personal failings so much as the “state of the art” duri ...
... Chaucer confesses early in his career that his meter is sometimes irregular: he speaks of how “som vers fayle[s] in a silable” (House of Fame 1098). Yet this is an ambiguous self-deprecating gesture, since Chaucer may not be speaking about his personal failings so much as the “state of the art” duri ...
"Poetics"
... view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies. The cause of this again is, that to learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general; whose capacity, however, of learni ...
... view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies. The cause of this again is, that to learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general; whose capacity, however, of learni ...
some fundamentals of poetry
... CONCEIT—a far-fetched comparison between two seemingly unlike things; an extended metaphor that gains appeal from its unusual or extraordinary comparison. CONNOTATION—associations a word calls to mind—what a word suggests beyond its basic definition (DENOTATION). ENJAMBMENT—in poetry, the running ov ...
... CONCEIT—a far-fetched comparison between two seemingly unlike things; an extended metaphor that gains appeal from its unusual or extraordinary comparison. CONNOTATION—associations a word calls to mind—what a word suggests beyond its basic definition (DENOTATION). ENJAMBMENT—in poetry, the running ov ...
a glossary of literary terms
... of development and transitional devices. COMEDY is a play written largely for entertainment; in its broadest meaning, a drama which ends happily. COMEDY OF MANNERS form ridiculing social rather than individual faults. The characters are laughed at because they represent social types with characteris ...
... of development and transitional devices. COMEDY is a play written largely for entertainment; in its broadest meaning, a drama which ends happily. COMEDY OF MANNERS form ridiculing social rather than individual faults. The characters are laughed at because they represent social types with characteris ...
Poetry Anthology Revision Guide - Cardinal Newman Catholic School
... Semantic field of nature: ‘field’, ‘bore’, ‘flowers’, ‘air’, ‘rivers’, ‘suns’ – sets a romantic tone of beauty throughout the poem, celebrating England’s finer details – the reasons the soldier fights – for everything in the country First person perspective: ‘!f I should die, think only this of me’ ...
... Semantic field of nature: ‘field’, ‘bore’, ‘flowers’, ‘air’, ‘rivers’, ‘suns’ – sets a romantic tone of beauty throughout the poem, celebrating England’s finer details – the reasons the soldier fights – for everything in the country First person perspective: ‘!f I should die, think only this of me’ ...
An Introduction to Stress and Meter Consider the sound of the
... Not a creature was stirring, not even a mousing. We name metric lines according to the number of "feet" in them. If a line has four feet, it is tetrameter. If a line has five feet, it is pentameter. If it has six feet, it is hexameter, and so on. Different languages tend to require different meter. ...
... Not a creature was stirring, not even a mousing. We name metric lines according to the number of "feet" in them. If a line has four feet, it is tetrameter. If a line has five feet, it is pentameter. If it has six feet, it is hexameter, and so on. Different languages tend to require different meter. ...
Romantic Alienation Reconsidered
... Eric K.W. Yu Department of English National Dong Hwa University ...
... Eric K.W. Yu Department of English National Dong Hwa University ...
LITERARY ANALYSIS Just as painters express ideas and feelings
... Nick Jacobson is not a worthy candidate for vice president of the senior class because he is short and frowns too much. 2. Ad populum fallacy-“to the crowd,” a misconception that a widespread occurrence of something is assumed to make an idea true or right. The parents of Sylvia’s friends allow ...
... Nick Jacobson is not a worthy candidate for vice president of the senior class because he is short and frowns too much. 2. Ad populum fallacy-“to the crowd,” a misconception that a widespread occurrence of something is assumed to make an idea true or right. The parents of Sylvia’s friends allow ...
here - Kihei Charter STEM Academy Middle School
... DEFINITION: the effect created when words with the same vowel sound are used in close proximity, but where the consonant sounds in these words are different. ...
... DEFINITION: the effect created when words with the same vowel sound are used in close proximity, but where the consonant sounds in these words are different. ...
AP Literature and Composition Literary Terms
... imagery: the use of words and phrases that appeal to the five senses. Writers use sensory details to help readers imagine how things look, feel, smell, sound, and taste. inference: is a logical guess based on evidence based on evidence in the text. internal conflict: see conflict interview: a meetin ...
... imagery: the use of words and phrases that appeal to the five senses. Writers use sensory details to help readers imagine how things look, feel, smell, sound, and taste. inference: is a logical guess based on evidence based on evidence in the text. internal conflict: see conflict interview: a meetin ...
Glossary of Literary Terms
... allegory: a story in which people, things and actions represent an idea about life; allegories often have a strong moral or lesson. alliteration (a-LIT-uh-RAY-shuhn): the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words (tongue twisters) allusion (a-LOO-zhuhn): a reference in a literary work ...
... allegory: a story in which people, things and actions represent an idea about life; allegories often have a strong moral or lesson. alliteration (a-LIT-uh-RAY-shuhn): the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words (tongue twisters) allusion (a-LOO-zhuhn): a reference in a literary work ...
Wiser for the Time: A collection of Poetry and Short Fiction
... I am the museum Back again, at a time yet undetermined Blank spaces On the canvas In me Yet to be colored in ...
... I am the museum Back again, at a time yet undetermined Blank spaces On the canvas In me Yet to be colored in ...
Winter 2014 271 Beginning Packet
... So you, my friend, be spared the pain and grief Of failing, falling hard against that wall Which makes a time of happiness so brief. We mark the rhyme scheme of a poem by using the alphabet. The first line’s ending sound is given the letter “A.” Any similar ending sounds in that poem also are given ...
... So you, my friend, be spared the pain and grief Of failing, falling hard against that wall Which makes a time of happiness so brief. We mark the rhyme scheme of a poem by using the alphabet. The first line’s ending sound is given the letter “A.” Any similar ending sounds in that poem also are given ...
Elements of Poetry - Team 743 Language Arts
... “Hidden Beauty, Forever Broken” by laraelizabeth The moon shines upon the glassy surface of the hidden black lake in the forest. The stars glistening in the blue sky's place, the moon illuminates the trees at rest as they gently sway in the silent wind. Suddenly, the forest has changed; the sky is n ...
... “Hidden Beauty, Forever Broken” by laraelizabeth The moon shines upon the glassy surface of the hidden black lake in the forest. The stars glistening in the blue sky's place, the moon illuminates the trees at rest as they gently sway in the silent wind. Suddenly, the forest has changed; the sky is n ...
Rhythm in Free Verse: Presentation Notes
... Rising rhythm: A rhythmic unit that begins with an unaccented syllable and ends with an accented syllable. The iamb and anapest are rising rhythms. Falling rhythm: A rhythmic unit that begins with an accented syllable and ends with an unaccented syllable. The trochee and dactyl are falling rhythms. ...
... Rising rhythm: A rhythmic unit that begins with an unaccented syllable and ends with an accented syllable. The iamb and anapest are rising rhythms. Falling rhythm: A rhythmic unit that begins with an accented syllable and ends with an unaccented syllable. The trochee and dactyl are falling rhythms. ...
Introductory note on Hopkins
... Victorian Age’s most famous convert, John Henry Newman, who in fact received him into the faith on 21 October 1866 and gave him a teaching post at the Oratory in Birmingham upon Hopkins’s graduation from Oxford in 1867. In May 1868, 17 months after his conversion—and less than a week after had categ ...
... Victorian Age’s most famous convert, John Henry Newman, who in fact received him into the faith on 21 October 1866 and gave him a teaching post at the Oratory in Birmingham upon Hopkins’s graduation from Oxford in 1867. In May 1868, 17 months after his conversion—and less than a week after had categ ...
Poetry Analysis Test
... b. Example: She is as slow as a turtle. c. Example: __________________________________________________ “Free as a …” by Linda Armstrong First thing Outside my window The wild world sings. I wonder How it would be To fly over My neighborhood, Box houses, Streets like lines On a map, Tops of trees; To ...
... b. Example: She is as slow as a turtle. c. Example: __________________________________________________ “Free as a …” by Linda Armstrong First thing Outside my window The wild world sings. I wonder How it would be To fly over My neighborhood, Box houses, Streets like lines On a map, Tops of trees; To ...
My Papa`s Waltz
... And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!' This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!' Merely this and nothing more. Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. `Surely,' said I, `su ...
... And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!' This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!' Merely this and nothing more. Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. `Surely,' said I, `su ...
Whoso List to Hunt
... Whoso List to Hunt • Whoso list to hunt: I know where is an hind. But as for me, alas I may no more: The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, I am of them that farthest cometh behind. Yet may I by no means my wearied mind Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore Fainting I follow. I leave off t ...
... Whoso List to Hunt • Whoso list to hunt: I know where is an hind. But as for me, alas I may no more: The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, I am of them that farthest cometh behind. Yet may I by no means my wearied mind Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore Fainting I follow. I leave off t ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY A WOMAN`S JOURNEY THROUGH
... Poets do have friends and sometimes … we're all over the place [laughter] and we never get to see each other. And sometimes we feel like we're friends even if we don't really know each other, but we know each other through walking this strange path together. So that's a particular joy. And to be wit ...
... Poets do have friends and sometimes … we're all over the place [laughter] and we never get to see each other. And sometimes we feel like we're friends even if we don't really know each other, but we know each other through walking this strange path together. So that's a particular joy. And to be wit ...
B. Tone—the author`s attitude, whether stated or
... were independently wealthy, I would fund this student’s education myself. I can’t. You should.) a. inverted order or sentence inversion—This involves constructing a sentence so the predicate comes before the subject. Can create an emphatic or rhythmic effect. Example: In California grow oranges. b. ...
... were independently wealthy, I would fund this student’s education myself. I can’t. You should.) a. inverted order or sentence inversion—This involves constructing a sentence so the predicate comes before the subject. Can create an emphatic or rhythmic effect. Example: In California grow oranges. b. ...
Chapter 5 Phonological Overregularity
... 6.0 Types of poem in English Origin: at different times, different patterns of meter and sound have developed and become accepted as ways of structuring poems. These conventional structures often have names, and when analyzing poems, it is worth being able to identify the more frequent convention ...
... 6.0 Types of poem in English Origin: at different times, different patterns of meter and sound have developed and become accepted as ways of structuring poems. These conventional structures often have names, and when analyzing poems, it is worth being able to identify the more frequent convention ...
Topographical poetry
Topographical poetry or loco-descriptive poetry is a genre of poetry that describes, and often praises, a landscape or place. John Denham's 1642 poem ""Cooper's Hill"" established the genre, which peaked in popularity in 18th-century England. Examples of topographical verse date, however, to the late classical period, and can be found throughout the medieval era and during the Renaissance. Though the earliest examples come mostly from continental Europe, the topographical poetry in the tradition originating with Denham concerns itself with the classics, and many of the various types of topographical verse, such as river, ruin, or hilltop poems were established by the early 17th century. Alexander Pope's ""Windsor Forest"" (1713) and John Dyer's ""Grongar Hill' (1762) are two other oft-mentioned examples. More recently, Matthew Arnold's ""The Scholar Gipsy"" (1853) praises the Oxfordshire countryside, and W. H. Auden's ""In Praise of Limestone"" (1948) uses a limestone landscape as an allegory. Subgenres of topographical poetry include the country house poem, written in 17th-century England to compliment a wealthy patron, and the prospect poem, describing the view from a distance or a temporal view into the future, with the sense of opportunity or expectation. When understood broadly as landscape poetry and when assessed from its establishment to the present, topographical poetry can take on many formal situations and types of places. Kenneth Baker identifies 37 varieties and compiles poems from the 16th through the 20th centuries—from Edmund Spenser to Sylvia Plath—correspondent to each type, from ""Walks and Surveys,"" to ""Mountains, Hills, and the View from Above,"" to ""Violation of Nature and the Landscape,"" to ""Spirits and Ghosts.""Common aesthetic registers of which topographical poetry make use include pastoral imagery, the sublime, and the picturesque. These latter two registers subsume imagery of rivers, ruins, moonlight, birdsong, and clouds, peasants, mountains, caves, and waterscapes.