AP Lit poetry/ Rime of marienrer

Samuel Taylor coleridge was in the ______ movement

romantic

romantic movement had emphasis on 

nature, emotion, mystery and pushback against Industrial revolution

Samuel Taylor Coleridge also wrote

kubla kahn

a source of frustration, obstruction, or guilt, from which it is difficult to rid oneself, a burden, an encumbrance; a hindrance

albatross

an idealized place of great or idyllic magnificence and beauty

Xanadu

stress on the 1st syllable

trochaic

stress on he 2nd syllable

iambic

same as stress. a syllable given more prominence in pronunciation than its neighbors

accent

a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one; unlike an extended metaphor in that it involves a system of related comparisons rather than one comparison drawn out

allegory

the repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. Can alsoinclude vowels

alliteration

a reference to something in literature or history

allusion

repetition of an opening word or phrase in a series of lines

anaphora

a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply

apostrophe

a term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but aren’t perfect rhymes

approximate rhyme

a harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

cacophony

a speech pause occuring within a line

caesura

what a word suggests beyond its basic defintion; a word;s overtones of meaning

connotation

the repition at close intervals of the finalconsonant sound of accented syllables or important words

consonance

the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word

denotation

the situation, whether actual or fictional, realistic or fanciful, in whihc an author places his or her characters in order to express the theme

dramatic framework

a figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem

extended figure

a smooth, pleasant sounding choice and arrangement of sounds

euphony

language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally

figurative language

broadly any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly a way of saying one thing and meaning another

figure of speech

figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth

hyperbole

the representation through language of sense experience

imagery

a situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy

irony

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

metaphor

a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience

metonymy

the use of words that mimic their meaning in thiier wsounds

onomatopoeia

a compound paradox in which two succesive words seemingly contradict each other

oxymoron

a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements

paradox

a situation containing apparently but not actually incompatible elements

paradoxical situation

a restatement of the content of a poem designed to make its prose meaning as clear as possible

paraphrase

a word whose sound, by an obscure process, to some degree suggests its meaning. different from onomatopoeia

phonetic intensive

that part of a poems total meaning that can be separarted out and expressed through paraphrase

prose meaning

in natural speech, as in prose and poetic writing, the stressing of words or syllables so as to emphasize meaning and sentence structure

rhetorical stress

any wavelike recurrence of motion of sound

rhythm

repetition of an accented vowel sound

rhyme

bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its pseaker to give pain to the person addressed

sarcasm

a figure of speech comparing two things that are essentially unlike, the comparison is made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as like, as, similar to, etc

simile

a figure of speech in which something (object, person, situation, or action) means more than what it is. a symbol, in other words,may be read both literallyand metaphorically

symbol

a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole

synecdoche

presentation of one sense expereince in terms usually associated with another sensatiom

synesthesia

the central idea of a literary work

theme

the writers or speakers attitude toward the subject, audience, or herself or himself; the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning, or a work

tone

the total experience communicated by a poem. it includes all those dimensions of experience by whihc a poem communicates and it can be communicated in no other words than those of the poem itself

total meaning

a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants

understatement

a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable

anapest

a meter in which amajority of the feet are anapests (triple meter)

anapestic meter

a fairly short narrative poem written in asonglike stanza form

ballad

unrhymed iambic pentameter

blank verse

that form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, only breaks being dictated by units of meaning

continuous form

two succesive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme

couplet

a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables

dactyl

a meter in which the majority of the feet are dactyls (triple meter)

dactylic meter

a metrical line containing two feet

dimeter

a rhyme in which the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved; a form of feminine rhyme

double rhyme

a meter in which a majority of the feet contain two syllables. Iambic and trochaic are both _____ meters

duple meter

rhymes that occur at the ends of lines

end rhyme

a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation

end stopped line

a rhyme in which the repeated accent vowel is in either the second or third last syllable of the words involved

feminine rhyme

the rhythmic expectation set up by the basic meter of a poem. keeping too closely to the expected rhythm can make the poem dull and uninteresting rhythmically; departing too far can muddle the poem

expected rhythm

any form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition, such as sonnet, limerick, villanelle, and so on

fixed form

the basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of metrical verse. a foot usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables (spondaic foot is modification)

foot

the external pattern or shape of poem, describable without reference to its content, as continuous form, stanzaic form, fixed form, free verse, and syllabic verse

form

nonmetrical poetryin whcih the basic rhytmic unit is the line, and in which pauses,line breaks, and formal patterns developorganically from the requirements of the individual poem rather than from established poetic forms

free verse

the actual rhythm of a metrical poem as we hear it when it is read naturally. the heard rhythm mostly conforms to but sometimes departs from the expected rhythm

heard rhythm

a metrical line consisting of six feet

hexameter

a metrical line consisting  of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllablle 

iamb

a meter in which the majority of feet are iambs. the most common english meter

iambic neter

a rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme words occurs within the line

internal rhyme

a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes such as cdcdcd or cdecde

petrachan sonnet (italian sonnet)

a fixed form consisting of five lines of anapestic meter, the first two trimeter, the next two dimeter, the last trimeter, rhyiming aabba; used for humorous or nonsense verse

limerick

a rhyme in which the repeated acented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved

masculine rhyme (or single rhyme)

the regular patterns of accent that underlie metrical verse; the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry

meter

departures from the basic metrical pattern {substitution, extra-metrical syllables, truncation)

metrical variations

a metrical line containing one foot

monometer

1 an eight line stanza, 2 the first eight lines of a sonnet (especially an italian sonnet)

octave

a metrical line containing five feet

pentameter

a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept

personification

usually a short composition having the intentions of poetry but written in prose rather than verse

prose poem

1 a four line stanza 2 a four-line division of a sonnet marked off by its rhyme scheme

quatrain

a repeated word, phrase, line, or group on lines, normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form

refrain

any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing whole poem or its stanzas

rhyme scheme

a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowin gthe sense the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succedding line

run-on line (enjambment)

the process of measuring metrical verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, diving the lines into feet, identifiying the metrical pattern and noting significan variations from that pattern

scansion

1 a six line stanza, 2 the last six lines of a sonnet structured on the italian model

sestet

a sonnet rhyming ababacdcdefefgg. its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet, but it is often structured, like the italian sonnet, into octave and sestet, the principal break in thought coming at the end of the eight line

shakespearian sonnet (or english sonnet)

a fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, which a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types, the italian or the english

sonnet

a metrical foot consisting of two syllables equally or almost equally accented (true-blue). rarely used as main metrical foot, usually found as irregular feet

spondee

a group of lines whose metrical pattern
(usually its rhyme scheme as well) is repeated throughout the poem

stanza

the form taken by a poem when it is written in a series of units having the same number of lines and usually other characteristics in common, such as metrical pattern or rhyme scheme

stanzaic form

verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line

syllabic verse

a three-line stanza exhibited in terza rima and villanelle as well as in other poetic forms

tercet

an interlocking rhyme scheme with the pattern aba bcb cdc, etc

terza rima

a metrical line containing four feet

tetrameter

a metrical line containing three feet

trimeter

a meter in which a majority of the feet contain three syllables. anapestic and dactylic are both ___ meters

triple meter

a metrical foot consisting of one accented sylllable followed by one unaccented syllable

trochee