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| the repetition of an initial consonant sound through a sequence of words |
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| the use of a word or expression to mean more than one thing |
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| monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience. ("Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" Browning) |
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| in classical times, any poem on any subject written in "elegiac" meter; since the Renaissance, usually a formal lament on the death of a particular person. ("Mid-Term Break" Heaney) |
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| English, or Shakespearean Sonnet |
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| sonnet form that divides the poem into 3 units of 4 lines each and a final unit of 2 lines. Classic rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, but there are variations |
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| poem that celebrates, in a continuous narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines, usually in founding a nation or developing a culture, and uses elevated language and a high, grand style |
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| Figurative Language/Figure of Speech |
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| usually applied to language that uses figures of speech. Heightens meaning by implicitly or explicitly representing something in terms of some other thing, the assumption being that the "other thing" will be more familiar to the reader. Comparisons in which something is pictured or figured in other, more familiar terms |
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| metrical form in which the basic foot is an iamb and most lines consist of 5 iambs; most common poetic meter in English |
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| Any sensory detail or evocation in a work; the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or describe an object |
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| Illustrates a situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of discrepancy. Result of an action or situation is the reverse of what is expected. ("Water, water, everywhere" from Rime of the Ancient Mariner) |
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| Italian, or Petrarchan, Sonnet |
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| Divides a poem into one section of 8 lines and a second section of 6 lines usually following ABBAABBAA CDECDE or ABBACDDC |
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| Originally, a poem mean to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre; now, any short poem in which the speaker expresses intense personal emotion rather than describing a narrative or dramatic situation. ("A Noiseless Patient Spider" Whitman) |
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| One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between them; an implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another unlike itself without the use of a verbal signal. Sometimes used as a general term for figure of speech. |
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| The more or less regular patter of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. Determined by the kind of "food" and by the number of feet per line. |
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| Speech of more than a few sentences, usually in a play but also in other genres, spoken by one person and uninterrupted by the speech of anyone else |
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| lyrical poem characterized by a serious topic and formal tone by no prescribed formal pattern |
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| statement that seems contradictory buy may actually be true |
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| poem that describes the simple life of country folk, usually shepherds, which live a timeless, painless life in a world full of beauty, music, & life |
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| line of poetry with five feet |
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| the pattern of end rhymes in a poem |
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| modulation of stressed & unstressed elements in the flow of speech. |
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| time and place of the action in a story, poem, or play |
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| direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, usually using the words 'like' or 'as' to draw the connection |
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| fixed verse form consisting of 14 lines usually in iambic pentameter |
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| the person, not necessarily the author, who is the voice of a poem |
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| section of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing. (Paragraph in prose) |
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| a form in which the poet establishes a precise number of syllables to a line and repeats it in subsequent stanzas |
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| attitude a literary work takes toward its subject and theme |
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| "How Do I Love Thee?" Elizabeth Browning |
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| Written to Robert Browning, universal quality that could apply to anyone |
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| "Mid-Term Break" Seamus Heaney |
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| Elegy; about the little brother dying |
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| "[Let me not to the marriage of true minds]" Shakespeare |
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| English sonnet; follows sonnet rhyme scheme; argument & metaphysical |
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| "Persimmons" Li-Young Lee |
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| "Barbie Doll" Marge Piercy |
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| Not about an individual girl, but a phenomenon. Cautionary. |
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| Protest; beginning of Romanticism; references to prostitution and venereal diseases; equates soldiers with harlots |
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