Metaphysical Poetry
... In addition to challenging the conventions of rhythm, the metaphysical poets also challenged conventional imagery. Their tool for doing this was the metaphysical conceit. If you remember, a conceit is a poetic idea, usually a metaphor. There can be conventional ideas, where there are expected metaph ...
... In addition to challenging the conventions of rhythm, the metaphysical poets also challenged conventional imagery. Their tool for doing this was the metaphysical conceit. If you remember, a conceit is a poetic idea, usually a metaphor. There can be conventional ideas, where there are expected metaph ...
literary elements1
... a pair of lines that rhyme. The couplet may be complete in itself or it may be part of a longer poem. ...
... a pair of lines that rhyme. The couplet may be complete in itself or it may be part of a longer poem. ...
Lit Terms Glossary
... eventually is written down. As such, ballads usually cannot be traced to a particular author or group of authors. Typically, ballads are dramatic, condensed, and impersonal narratives, such as "Bonny Barbara Allan." A literary ballad is a narrative poem that is written in deliberate imitation of the ...
... eventually is written down. As such, ballads usually cannot be traced to a particular author or group of authors. Typically, ballads are dramatic, condensed, and impersonal narratives, such as "Bonny Barbara Allan." A literary ballad is a narrative poem that is written in deliberate imitation of the ...
Poetry Imitation
... Unrhymed seven-line poem Written in a diamond shape Has a specific set of rules: Line 1 and 7 have one word (noun) Line 2 and 6 have two words (adjectives) Line 3 and 5 have three words (all verbs) Line 4 has four words (all nouns) ...
... Unrhymed seven-line poem Written in a diamond shape Has a specific set of rules: Line 1 and 7 have one word (noun) Line 2 and 6 have two words (adjectives) Line 3 and 5 have three words (all verbs) Line 4 has four words (all nouns) ...
Plot - Marissa Junior/Senior High School
... language make comparisons and indirect statements to help us see things in vivid, imaginative ways. A figure of speech is any way of saying something other than the literal, ordinary way. Some commonly-used figures of speech are given below. Metaphor: a figure of speech comparing things that are bas ...
... language make comparisons and indirect statements to help us see things in vivid, imaginative ways. A figure of speech is any way of saying something other than the literal, ordinary way. Some commonly-used figures of speech are given below. Metaphor: a figure of speech comparing things that are bas ...
Genre Poetry Narrative and Satire
... Genre refers to the specific category in a general topic. Jazz and heavy metal are genres of music, for example. In literature, genres include poetry, fiction, tall tales, nonfiction, and others. Poetry The Canterbury Tales is a poem consisting of approximately 17,000 lines. The poems are arranged i ...
... Genre refers to the specific category in a general topic. Jazz and heavy metal are genres of music, for example. In literature, genres include poetry, fiction, tall tales, nonfiction, and others. Poetry The Canterbury Tales is a poem consisting of approximately 17,000 lines. The poems are arranged i ...
1 How to Read Poetry
... dactyl (YOU are right) or even on occasion broken into strong equal beats (SHUT UP) spondee. It was also OK to let a beat or pause represent a syllable, usually at the end of a line. (Row, row, row your boat/ Gently down the stream rest is a four-beat verse.) Any poet with an ear instinctively playe ...
... dactyl (YOU are right) or even on occasion broken into strong equal beats (SHUT UP) spondee. It was also OK to let a beat or pause represent a syllable, usually at the end of a line. (Row, row, row your boat/ Gently down the stream rest is a four-beat verse.) Any poet with an ear instinctively playe ...
ELA_GR6_U5_BLM_FINAL
... Unit 5, Activities 7 and 14, Poetic Terms BLM FREE VERSE – poetry with no regular rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, meter, etc. The lines are irregular and may or may not rhyme. Free verse develops its own rhythms, most often annotated by the use of the line-break. HAIKU – a type of Japanese poetry ...
... Unit 5, Activities 7 and 14, Poetic Terms BLM FREE VERSE – poetry with no regular rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, meter, etc. The lines are irregular and may or may not rhyme. Free verse develops its own rhythms, most often annotated by the use of the line-break. HAIKU – a type of Japanese poetry ...
Literary Terms - Bob Jones High School
... 1. Allegory Literary work in which characters, events, objects, and ideas have secondary or symbolic meanings. One of the most popular allegories of the 20th Century was George Orwell's Animal Farm, about farm animals vying for power. On the surface, it is an entertaining story that even children ca ...
... 1. Allegory Literary work in which characters, events, objects, and ideas have secondary or symbolic meanings. One of the most popular allegories of the 20th Century was George Orwell's Animal Farm, about farm animals vying for power. On the surface, it is an entertaining story that even children ca ...
TERMS FOR POETRY Form: stanza pattern: how many stanzas are
... pentameter: five feet (most common) hexameter: six feet rhythm: is the rhythm in the poem regular and if so, what is the pattern of the rhythm? duple meters: iambic: unstressed - stressed trochaic: stressed - unstressed pyrrhic: unstressed - unstressed (occurs only as exception to pattern) spondee: ...
... pentameter: five feet (most common) hexameter: six feet rhythm: is the rhythm in the poem regular and if so, what is the pattern of the rhythm? duple meters: iambic: unstressed - stressed trochaic: stressed - unstressed pyrrhic: unstressed - unstressed (occurs only as exception to pattern) spondee: ...
Black Out Poetry
... normal or expected result” *Different than dramatic irony (when the audience knows more than characters ) ...
... normal or expected result” *Different than dramatic irony (when the audience knows more than characters ) ...
Introduction to the Study of English Literature
... inversion Deviation from normal word order. No living man/ all things can. Strange fits of passion have I known. (Wordsworth) hysteron proteron Inversion of the natural order of events. Let us die and rush into battle (Virgil) parallelism Repetition of syntactical units (phrases, clauses, sentences) ...
... inversion Deviation from normal word order. No living man/ all things can. Strange fits of passion have I known. (Wordsworth) hysteron proteron Inversion of the natural order of events. Let us die and rush into battle (Virgil) parallelism Repetition of syntactical units (phrases, clauses, sentences) ...
Poetry Planner
... ‘Poetry is text in which emotions, ideas and sounds of language are presented in a way that satisfies both the writer and the reader’ (First Steps, Fiction and Poetry). Poetry is an enjoyable form of text. It is manageable in size and begs endless rereading. The frequent reading and re-reading provi ...
... ‘Poetry is text in which emotions, ideas and sounds of language are presented in a way that satisfies both the writer and the reader’ (First Steps, Fiction and Poetry). Poetry is an enjoyable form of text. It is manageable in size and begs endless rereading. The frequent reading and re-reading provi ...
PoetryDrama
... Greek philosopher Aristotle used this term in a very influential treatise called the Poetics. In this text, Aristotle classified different forms of poetry according to basic features he thought could be commonly recognised in their composition. He used the term ‘drama’ to describe poetic composition ...
... Greek philosopher Aristotle used this term in a very influential treatise called the Poetics. In this text, Aristotle classified different forms of poetry according to basic features he thought could be commonly recognised in their composition. He used the term ‘drama’ to describe poetic composition ...
TPFASTT Poetry Analysis
... Perfect: identical sounds (dead/red); Slant: sounds that are so, what is the purpose? close but not identical (down/then); Eye: words that look Enjambment—the running-on of one line of poetry into as if they sound alike (move/love) another Rhyme Scheme—the rhyming pattern found in a poem Hyperbole—a ...
... Perfect: identical sounds (dead/red); Slant: sounds that are so, what is the purpose? close but not identical (down/then); Eye: words that look Enjambment—the running-on of one line of poetry into as if they sound alike (move/love) another Rhyme Scheme—the rhyming pattern found in a poem Hyperbole—a ...
An abstract style (in writing)
... *Anticlimax: An anticlimax occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. Anticlimax is frequently comic. Sir, your snide manner and despicable arrogance have long been a source of disgust to me, but I’ve overlooked it until now. However, it has come to my attent ...
... *Anticlimax: An anticlimax occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. Anticlimax is frequently comic. Sir, your snide manner and despicable arrogance have long been a source of disgust to me, but I’ve overlooked it until now. However, it has come to my attent ...
Term Definition Example 1. metaphor a comparison between two
... the basic meaning is the position from which details of a story are perceived and told; first person p.o.v. is characterized by the pronoun "I", "my", "we", or "our", and the narrator is either a direct participant or observer of the action; third person p.o.v. is characterized by the pronouns "she" ...
... the basic meaning is the position from which details of a story are perceived and told; first person p.o.v. is characterized by the pronoun "I", "my", "we", or "our", and the narrator is either a direct participant or observer of the action; third person p.o.v. is characterized by the pronouns "she" ...
English_Language_Arts_Glossary_30
... falling metre: a metre with a basic foot that ends with an unstressed syllable such as trochaic or dactylic feet feminine rhyme: a type of end rhyme in which the final rhyming syllable in each line is unstressed and the stressed syllable that comes before it also rhymes; also known as double rhyme f ...
... falling metre: a metre with a basic foot that ends with an unstressed syllable such as trochaic or dactylic feet feminine rhyme: a type of end rhyme in which the final rhyming syllable in each line is unstressed and the stressed syllable that comes before it also rhymes; also known as double rhyme f ...
AP Prosody - TeacherWeb
... Verse paragraphs: poems that are divided irregularly, such as those written in blank verse or free verse, have sections called verse paragraphs. Accent: is the emphasis placed on a syllable. There are three types of accents: word accent, rhetorical accent, and metrical accent. Word accent refers to ...
... Verse paragraphs: poems that are divided irregularly, such as those written in blank verse or free verse, have sections called verse paragraphs. Accent: is the emphasis placed on a syllable. There are three types of accents: word accent, rhetorical accent, and metrical accent. Word accent refers to ...
Literary Analysis Guiding Questions
... speaker) in a poem or prose work. The persona should not be identified with the author of the work. Personification: Giving inanimate/non-human things the qualities, abilities, or emotions of humans. Personification heightens a reader’s emotional response to what is being described by giving it huma ...
... speaker) in a poem or prose work. The persona should not be identified with the author of the work. Personification: Giving inanimate/non-human things the qualities, abilities, or emotions of humans. Personification heightens a reader’s emotional response to what is being described by giving it huma ...
Literary terms to discuss prose and verse • Sound • Verse
... Sibilance: recurrence of the hissing sounds called sibilants (usually spelt s, sh, c, zh) ...
... Sibilance: recurrence of the hissing sounds called sibilants (usually spelt s, sh, c, zh) ...
Types of poetry
... to these “rules”. Read it out aloud to your group members, and listen to their comments, and if necessary, make alterations. ...
... to these “rules”. Read it out aloud to your group members, and listen to their comments, and if necessary, make alterations. ...
GCSE English Literature Unit 2: Poetry across time
... How do I approach it? ............................................................................................................................................... 6 How do I structure my response? .................................................................................................... ...
... How do I approach it? ............................................................................................................................................... 6 How do I structure my response? .................................................................................................... ...
Personification, Onomatopoeia and Oxymoron With Ballad, Limerick
... I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will. “Cynthia in the Snow” by unknown The snow softly falling as it hushes and shushes the cars that drive in the street. The snow flitter-twitters around in the girl’s mind, before it whitely whirs away. She even personifies the snow, describing ...
... I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will. “Cynthia in the Snow” by unknown The snow softly falling as it hushes and shushes the cars that drive in the street. The snow flitter-twitters around in the girl’s mind, before it whitely whirs away. She even personifies the snow, describing ...
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more generally regarded as a fundamental creative act employing language.Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and metonymy create a resonance between otherwise disparate images—a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm.Some poetry types are specific to particular cultures and genres and respond to characteristics of the language in which the poet writes. Readers accustomed to identifying poetry with Dante, Goethe, Mickiewicz and Rumi may think of it as written in lines based on rhyme and regular meter; there are, however, traditions, such as Biblical poetry, that use other means to create rhythm and euphony. Much modern poetry reflects a critique of poetic tradition, playing with and testing, among other things, the principle of euphony itself, sometimes altogether forgoing rhyme or set rhythm. In today's increasingly globalized world, poets often adapt forms, styles and techniques from diverse cultures and languages.