POETRY

lyric poem

A short poem often with songlike qualities that express emotions

Spoken word poetry

purpose is to be performed

Elegy is usually written in first person and always ends on a hopeful note. true or false? why?

False because it DOESN’T AWALYS END ON A HOPEFUL NOTE

blank verse

A poem that is not restricted by rhyme but still has a regular meter

ode

What kind of poem, when performed during Greek times, celebrated athletic victories

alliteration

repetition of initial consonant sounds is

end rhyme

The most common type of rhyme, occurring on the final syllable of the line

volta/shift/turn

Often used in sonnets, this is when the poet might change his attitude or his topic

The following line includes an example of what? “No voice says ‘my mother’ again to me. What?”; ALSO, ““Dead! One of them shot by sea in the east“

CASEURA

What is broadly defined as a sensory detail in a text?

imagery

feminine rhyme

Poets often “cheat” with rhyme using all but which of the following

in what ways do poets cheat

SLANT RHYME EYE RHYME AND HALF RHYME

internal rhyme

A word within the line of poetry that rhymes with a word at the end of the same line is

narrative poem

oldest form of poetry

allusion

Mentions outside text

title of novels should be in

italics

When writing about a novel, one should always use

the present tense

long works in

italics

short work

quotations

Evidence in analysis, one should use evidence in

chronological evidence

what can’t use in literary analysis

Can’t use the “reader” or “you” in literary analysis

Which pronouns shouldn't be used in literary analysis=

you, I, we

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words with different endings

End-stopped line:

line of verse that contains or concludes a complete clause and usually ends with a punctuation mark

Enjambment

the technique of running over from one line to the next without a stop

figurative language

makes meaning by asking the reader or listener to understand something by virtue of its relation to some other thing, action, or image.

Imagery:

broadly defined, any sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea or describe an object.

Juxtaposition

placing two or more things next to each other, side by side, to highlight their differences to create contrast, tension, or emphasis

Metaphor:

  figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared implicitly

Rhyme

 repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line. Rhymed words conventionally share all sounds following the word’s last stressed syllable.

rhyme scheme

usually the pattern of end rhymes in a stanza, with each rhyme encoded by a letter of the alphabet; Rhymes are classified by the degree of similarity between sounds within words, and by their placement within the lines or stanzas.

Eye rhyme

rhymes only when spelled, not when pronounced. For example,

“through” and “rough.”

End rhyme

, the most common type, is the rhyming of the final syllables of a line.

Feminine rhyme

applies to the rhyming of one or more unstressed syllables,

such as “dicing” and “enticing.

Half rhyme

rhyming of the ending consonant sounds in a word (such as

“tell” with “toll,” or “sopped” with “leapt”). This is also termed “off-rhyme”or  “slant rhyme” 

Internal rhyme

is rhyme within a single line of verse, when a word from the

middle of a line is rhymed with a word at the end of the line.

Masculine rhyme

describes those rhymes ending in a stressed syllable, such as

“hells” and “bells.”

Sibilance:

repetition of s or sh sounds as in sash

Speaker:

the person who is the voice of the poem. Not the poet.

Stanza:

section of a poem, marked by the extra line spacing before and after, that often has a single pattern of meter and/or rhyme. 

Tone: 

attitude a literary work takes toward its subject or that a character in a work or speaker of a poem conveys, especially as revealed through diction

so you want to be a writer?

free verse

poetry marriane moore

meta poetry

shakespeare

sonnets

prose

not broken to tense lines, demostrate other traits common to poetry; amy lowell’s Bath

elegy

form of lyric poetry; poerm of serious reflection, mourning the loss of someone who died; written in first hours; end on a hopeful notes, some formof consolatoin; In Memoriam Alfred

occassional poetry

verse written about/for an event often cermonial; the hill we climb by amanda gorman; has allusions alliteration, repition, enjabment, stopped line

meta poetry

poetry about poetry

consonance

repition of certain consonant sounds in close proximity

end stopped line

line of verse that contains or concludes a complete clause and usually ends with a punctuation mark

enjabment

technique for runinng over from one line to the next without a stop

rhyme scheme

usually pattern of end rhyme in a stanza with each rhyme encoded by a letter of the alphabet, from a onward

eye rhyme

rhymes only spelled, not when prounced

end rhymem

most common and is rhyming of final syllables of line

fememinine rhyme

applies to rhyming off one or more unstressed syllables

like “dicing“ and enticing

half rhyme

rhyming of ending constant sounds in a word; off rhyme or slant rhyme; tell toll, sopped and leapt

internal rhyme

with single verse, when a word from miffle of a line is rhymed with a word at end of line

masculine rhyme

rhymes ending in a stressed syllable