Untitled Flashcards Set

Nectar - The drink of the gods

Ample - of immaterial thing, large in extent or amount 

Interposed - to intervene

Tippet - long narrow slip of clothing, hanging part of dresses

Tulle fine silk bobbinet used for women's dresses

Cornice - ornamental moulding usually of plaster running round the wall of a room 

Circuit - The line real or imaginary in going around any area

Filament - noun, a tenuous thread like body, from a spider 

Ductile - adj, capable of being moulded

Mystical - unknown or mysterious

Blithe - adj, of men, well pleased, happy

Robust - adj, strong and handy

Reproaching - v, to censure or reprove, express disappointment

Trestle - n, a support for something, chair, stool

Walt Whitman - “A Noiseless, Patient Spider” 

Walt Whitman - “When I Heard the Learned Astronomer,”

Walt Whitman - “I Hear America Singing,” 

Walt Whitman -“O Me! O Life!,” 

Walt Whitman -“Beat! Beat! Drums!,”

Walt Whitman - selections from “Song of Myself”

Emily Dickenson -  “Success is counted sweetest” (67); 

Emily Dickenson -“The Soul Selects her own Society” (303); 

Emily Dickenson -“I heard a Fly buzz  when I died ” (465);

Emily Dickenson - “Because I could not stop for Death” (712)

Emily Dickenson - “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant” (1129)

Ode  - a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.

Preterition - Example is Paul Revere’s ride, mentioning something by not mentioning something. - Paul Revere' Ride 

Meter - tempo/rhythm of a poem because of rhyme.

Rhyme Scheme - pattern of rhymes at the end of each line in a poem

Elegy - a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead ("The Cross of Snow")

Eulogy - a speech or writing in praise of a person, especially one who recently died or retired, or as a term of endearment.

Sonnet - 14 line poem

Shakespearean Sonnet - 14 lines consisting of a 3 quatrains and 1 couplet with the ABAB…GG pattern

Petrarchan sonnet - 14 lines consisting of a octave and a sestet with the ABBA pattern twice and the CDE pattern twice

Enjambment - the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

Synecdoche - a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

Apostrophe - when the persona(narrator of the poem) addresses some non-human things

Persona - the narrator of a poem

Volta - when poetry takes an abrupt turn 

Explication - the analysis of a pome

Metaphor - a comparison not using like or as

Romantic Poetry - poems depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form like heroism, patriarchy, spiritual lesson

Color Psychology - the practice of including colors in a literary work and imbuing them with particular meaning. Some color meanings are commonly understood in daily life, like the connection between sadness and the color blue: people might even say that they are ''feeling blue'' when they are sad.

End Stop Line - a pause at the end of a line

Anaphora - repetition of a word or phrase

Eye Rhyme - looks like words should rhyme 

Slant/near Rhyme - words that wild

Diction - the choice and use of words and phrases in writing.

Refrain - A phrase or line repeated at intervals within a poem, especially at the end of a stanza. 

Free Verse - no rhyme scheme or meter created by Walt Whitman

Blank Verse - poetry written in meter (iambic pentameter but no rhyme)

Catalogues - a long list of things/lines

Assonance- The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants

Oxymoron - A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words for effect, such as “jumbo shrimp” and “deafening silence.