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| The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form. |
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| The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables |
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| A passing or casual reference to a biblical, mythological, or literary figure or event |
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A metrical foot composed of two short syllables followed by one long one
Seventeen Se-ven-teen |
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A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics
Know then thyself II, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind II is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: by Alexander Pope |
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the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience.
Example: The denotation of the word home is simply "a place where one lives"; |
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the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning
Example: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.” |
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| A line of verse consisting of two metrical feet, or of two dipodies. |
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A unit of rhythm or meter; the division in verse of a group of
syllables, one of which is long or accented. |
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| A fluid form which conforms to no set rules of traditional versification. The free in free verse refers to the freedom from fixed patterns of meter and rhyme, but writers of free verse employ familiar poetic devices such as assonance, alliteration, imagery, caesura, figures of speech etc., and their rhythmic effects are dependent on the syllabic cadences emerging from the context. |
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| A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet; the term, however, is usually used for dactylic hexameter, consisting of dactyls and spondees, the meter in which the Greek and Latin epics were written. |
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A pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.
Example:
My Cat
By Molly
I like to play with my cat
He likes to get in a hat. |
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Classical Prosody. a line consisting of four dipodies in trochaic, iambic, or anapestic meter.
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“The Lamb” by William Blake
http://www.poeticbyway.com/xblake.htm#tyger |
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A particular quality, way of sounding, modulation, or intonation of the voice as expressive of some meaning, feeling, spirit, etc.
Example:
His Grace! impossible! what, dead!
Of old age, too, and in his bed!
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A foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter.
Example:
Peter, Peter pumpkin-eater
Had a wife and couldn’t keep her |
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Restraint or lack of emphasis in expression, as for rhetorical effect.
Example:
“Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
(This is an example of an understatement because ice can cause more destruction than that.) |
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contradiction: two contradictory terms or ideas are used together .
Ex. – parting is such sweet sorrow
Ex. – wise fool
Ex. – little big man |
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a statement that appears to be contradictory but, in fact, has some true
Ex. – he worked hard at being lazy
Ex. – youth is wasted on the young |
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refers to the use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning
Ex. – boom
Ex. – pop
Ex. – bang |
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words at the end of verses in which the final consonants in the stressed syllables agree but the words that precede them differ, sometimes called “half rime”
Ex. - ’T was later when the summer went
Than when the cricket came,
And yet we knew that gentle clock
Meant nought but going home. |
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| unrhymed verse of five iambic feet; heroic verse |
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| A figure of speech in which someone absent of dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and was able to reply. |
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| Original pattern from which copies are made. The word archetype is derived from the latin noun archetypum, meaning a template, mold or copy. |
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| The repetition or a pattern of similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage of verse or prose, but with different. An assonance can be described as a vowel rhyme as in the words date and fade. |
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| poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech. William Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse. |
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| Definition: when you make a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do. |
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| A Quatrain is a poem consisting of four lines of verse with a specific rhyming scheme. |
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| A musical quality, it is universally agreed to involve qualities of movement, repetition, and pattern and to arise from the poem’s nature as a chronological structure. Rhythm, by any definition produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables, occurs in all forms of language, both written and spoken, but is particularly important in poetry |
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| The basic definition of rhyme is two words that sound alike. The vowel sound of two words is the same, but the initial consonant sound is different. |
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Definition: “a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.”
Example: “South Park - An animated television program that depicts children coming of age to learn that the real world is just as crude as middle school.” |
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| Definition: “the metrical analysis of verse. The usual marks for scansion are ˘ for a short or unaccented syllable, ¯ or ʹ for a long or accented syllable, ^ for a rest, | for a foot division, and ‖ for a caesura or pause.” |
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Definition: “Prosody. the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.”
Example:
“So answerest thou; but why not rather say:
"Hath man no second life? - Pitch this one high!
Sits there no judge in Heaven, our sin to see? -
More strictly, then, the inward judge obey!
Was Christ a man like us? Ah! let us try
If we then, too, can be such men as he!”” |
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Definition: “a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared,”
Example: “she is like a rose.” |
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A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.
“A mighty fortress is our God.”
Noe is a shrimp
Aldo is a skeleton
Alonso is a elephant |
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a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part.
Count heads – Count People
The pen is mightier than the sword
"He writes a fine hand" meaning good handwriting |
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a rare form of verse in which each line consists of a single metrical unit
The best-known example of an entire poem in monometer is Robert Herrick's "Upon His Departure Hence": Thus I Passe by,And die:As One,Unknown,And gon:I'm made A shade, And laid I'th grave,There haveMy Cave.Where tell I dwell, Farewell. |
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| A sonnet is a poetic style that uses system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition usually consisting of fourteen lines. |
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| A spondee is a foot of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter. |
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A symbol is a word or object that stands for another word or object. The object or word can be seen with the eye or not visible. One example can be a heart, which stands for love.
The Road Not Taken: the forked road represents choices in life. |
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A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: The little journey in the poem represents life's journey. |
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