glossary of literary terms
... DRAMATIC IRONY A reader or an audience perceives something that a character in the story or play does not know. EPIGRAM A short witty statement in prose or verse. Here are two examples: A man being [is] sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through f ...
... DRAMATIC IRONY A reader or an audience perceives something that a character in the story or play does not know. EPIGRAM A short witty statement in prose or verse. Here are two examples: A man being [is] sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through f ...
Glossary of Poetic Terms
... Examples include Michael Drayton's "Polyolbion," Robert Bridges' "Testament of Beauty," and the last line of each stanza in Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain." Allegory (Greek, ‘speaking otherwise’): Henry Cockeram, in his English dictionary (1623), explains this as "A sentence that must ...
... Examples include Michael Drayton's "Polyolbion," Robert Bridges' "Testament of Beauty," and the last line of each stanza in Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain." Allegory (Greek, ‘speaking otherwise’): Henry Cockeram, in his English dictionary (1623), explains this as "A sentence that must ...
8th Grade Poetry Packet
... You wouldn’t need a pass to go everywhere in the school You wouldn’t be permitted to state nasty, rude comments on a Facebook page You wouldn’t be able to wear Crocs or stretchpants in public places If I were in charge of the world There’d be chocolate shake machines and in the cafeteria People woul ...
... You wouldn’t need a pass to go everywhere in the school You wouldn’t be permitted to state nasty, rude comments on a Facebook page You wouldn’t be able to wear Crocs or stretchpants in public places If I were in charge of the world There’d be chocolate shake machines and in the cafeteria People woul ...
문 Poetry types 16P
... = A metrical line of 14 syllables (usually seven iambic feet). A relatively long line, it can be found in narrative poetry from the Middle Ages through the 16th century. Fourteener couplets broken into quatrains are known as common measure or ballad meter. See also Poulter’s measure. Free verse 자유시 ...
... = A metrical line of 14 syllables (usually seven iambic feet). A relatively long line, it can be found in narrative poetry from the Middle Ages through the 16th century. Fourteener couplets broken into quatrains are known as common measure or ballad meter. See also Poulter’s measure. Free verse 자유시 ...
Poetic Meter
... line, we have a good idea of what the dominant meter of the poem is. Every line may not be the same, but usually there will be one dominant pattern. In Rich’s poem, we could scan all the lines and we would see that there are generally 5 stresses (5 stressed syllables) to each line. Poetry scansion m ...
... line, we have a good idea of what the dominant meter of the poem is. Every line may not be the same, but usually there will be one dominant pattern. In Rich’s poem, we could scan all the lines and we would see that there are generally 5 stresses (5 stressed syllables) to each line. Poetry scansion m ...
Poetic Elements
... And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; - From “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale ...
... And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; - From “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale ...
Links to the PowerPoint presentation for Poetry
... Free verse does not have a set pattern of rhyme or rhythm. There are no rules about line length in free verse. You try to keep the words that belong together on the same line, but, sometimes the poet will break these words if he/she wants to create a visual shape to support the poem's message, or fe ...
... Free verse does not have a set pattern of rhyme or rhythm. There are no rules about line length in free verse. You try to keep the words that belong together on the same line, but, sometimes the poet will break these words if he/she wants to create a visual shape to support the poem's message, or fe ...
Dialect A regional or social variety of a language distinguished by
... it helps us to find our way through the confusing stream of continuous speech, enabling us to divide speech into words or other units, to signal changes between topic or speaker, and to spot which items in the message are the most important." ...
... it helps us to find our way through the confusing stream of continuous speech, enabling us to divide speech into words or other units, to signal changes between topic or speaker, and to spot which items in the message are the most important." ...
Poetry Party
... The mom would tap her foot to say "nap time kids" The kids always enjoy their snack pack The spring melted away the snow and felt like mush The grass was as brass as a trumpet but was slowing turning The three trees in the front were a rusty brown ...
... The mom would tap her foot to say "nap time kids" The kids always enjoy their snack pack The spring melted away the snow and felt like mush The grass was as brass as a trumpet but was slowing turning The three trees in the front were a rusty brown ...
Free Verse, Free Rhythms
... mora (not strictly the same as syllables) in a rhythm of five, seven, and five. In English (a stressed language), the ideas are usually expressed in three separate lines: The first line contains five syllables, the second contains seven syllables, and the third contains five syllables. Many haiku se ...
... mora (not strictly the same as syllables) in a rhythm of five, seven, and five. In English (a stressed language), the ideas are usually expressed in three separate lines: The first line contains five syllables, the second contains seven syllables, and the third contains five syllables. Many haiku se ...
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. ...
During this unit we will be looking at several different types of poetry
... Of greens, reds, and whites You know it is Christmas Time When snow falls down from the skies Soft and thick it lies You know it is Christmas Time When you hear Christmas jingles And your skin begins to tingle You know it is Christmas Time An Ode for the scent of pine An Ode to the dainty decoration ...
... Of greens, reds, and whites You know it is Christmas Time When snow falls down from the skies Soft and thick it lies You know it is Christmas Time When you hear Christmas jingles And your skin begins to tingle You know it is Christmas Time An Ode for the scent of pine An Ode to the dainty decoration ...
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... the actor expected. In dramatic irony, the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not. In verbal irony, the contrast is between the literal meaning of what is said and what is meant. Ex: D.I. occurs when Macbeth plans Duncan’s murder while feigning loyalty to the king. While Du ...
... the actor expected. In dramatic irony, the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not. In verbal irony, the contrast is between the literal meaning of what is said and what is meant. Ex: D.I. occurs when Macbeth plans Duncan’s murder while feigning loyalty to the king. While Du ...
AP Lit Terms and Definitions active voice: subject performs the
... stream-of-consciousness: a type of writing that captures the “stream” of ideas, memories, and thoughts of the character (as if the reader is reading everything the character thinks and does) structure: the organization of the parts of a work style: distinctive forms and uses of language in a work su ...
... stream-of-consciousness: a type of writing that captures the “stream” of ideas, memories, and thoughts of the character (as if the reader is reading everything the character thinks and does) structure: the organization of the parts of a work style: distinctive forms and uses of language in a work su ...
senior english summer reading
... Quatrain—a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit. ...
... Quatrain—a poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit. ...
Poetry Terminology 11
... o The new terms are marked with (NT): New Term. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Poem: Words organized in such a way that there is a pattern of rhythm, rhyme and/or meaning. The relationships between words are emphasized in po ...
... o The new terms are marked with (NT): New Term. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Poem: Words organized in such a way that there is a pattern of rhythm, rhyme and/or meaning. The relationships between words are emphasized in po ...
Some material for Chapter 2. Theoretical background 2.1 Literature
... Samuel Marshak, a famous translator of poetry from English into Russian, states in his article Poetry of Translation (1962) that “translation of poetry is a high and difficult art”. He personally “would put forward two – seemingly paradoxical and yet are true – statements: first, poetry is impossibl ...
... Samuel Marshak, a famous translator of poetry from English into Russian, states in his article Poetry of Translation (1962) that “translation of poetry is a high and difficult art”. He personally “would put forward two – seemingly paradoxical and yet are true – statements: first, poetry is impossibl ...
The Sonnet
... meter: measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse rhyme: correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse ...
... meter: measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse rhyme: correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse ...
SOUND DEVICES USED IN POETRY Artifact 5-14
... (6), heptameter (7) and octameter (8); thus, a line containing five iambic feet, for example, would be called iambic pentameter. Rarely does a metrical line exceed six feet. Sidelight: In the composition of verse, poets sometimes make deviations from the systematic metrical patterns. This is often d ...
... (6), heptameter (7) and octameter (8); thus, a line containing five iambic feet, for example, would be called iambic pentameter. Rarely does a metrical line exceed six feet. Sidelight: In the composition of verse, poets sometimes make deviations from the systematic metrical patterns. This is often d ...
Elements of Style: Literary Devices
... Meter and rhyme aren’t the only ways in which a poet can create music with words. Note all the s sounds as you read aloud this line from “The Raven”: And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Do you hear the rustling of that curtain in all those s sounds? This is alliteration, t ...
... Meter and rhyme aren’t the only ways in which a poet can create music with words. Note all the s sounds as you read aloud this line from “The Raven”: And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Do you hear the rustling of that curtain in all those s sounds? This is alliteration, t ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Introduction to Poetry
... over harbor and city on silent haunches and then, moves on. ...
... over harbor and city on silent haunches and then, moves on. ...
Alliterative verse
In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal ornamental device to help indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme. The most commonly studied traditions of alliterative verse are those found in the oldest literature of the Germanic languages, where scholars use the term 'alliterative poetry' rather broadly to indicate a tradition which not only shares alliteration as its primary ornament but also certain metrical characteristics. The Old English epic Beowulf, as well as most other Old English poetry, the Old High German Muspilli, the Old Saxon Heliand, the Old Norse Poetic Edda, and many Middle English poems such as Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Alliterative Morte Arthur all use alliterative verse.Alliterative verse can be found in many other languages as well. The Finnish Kalevala and the Estonian Kalevipoeg both use alliterative forms derived from folk tradition. Traditional Turkic verse, for example that of the Uyghur, is also alliterative.