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Poetry Literary Terms

Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds through a sequence of words
Allusion: a reference to something outside the poem that carries a history of meaning and strong emotional associations
Ambiguity: having more than one possible meaning
Analogy: a comparison based on certain resemblances between things that are otherwise unlike
Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words with different endings
Blank Verse: unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter
Connotations: suggestions of emotional coloration that imply our attitude and invite a similar one fromout hearers
Controlling Metaphor: a metaphor that extends over the entire poem
Denotation: specific meaning of a word
Descriptive Structure: a textual organization determined by the requirements of describing someone or something
Dicursive Structures: a textual organization based on the form of a treatise, argument, or essay
Dramatic Irony: an incongruity between what we expect and what actually happens
Dramatic Structure: a textual organization based on a series of scenes, each of which is presented visually and in detail
Extended Metaphor: metaphors that extend over a long period of time
Figures of Speech: comparisons in which something is pictured or figured in other, more familiar, terms
Imitative Structures: a textual organization that mirrors as exactly as possible the struture of something that already exists as an object
Italian Sonnet: divides the poem into one section of eight lines (OCTAVE) and a second section of six lines (SESTET). Rhyme scheme is usually ABBAABBA CDECDE.
Memory (Mnemonic) Devices: devices that make a work easier to memorize--include rhyme, repetition, meter etc..
Metaphor: the comparison is implicit, with osmething described s if it were something else
Narrative Structure: a textual organization based on sequences of connected events usually presented in a straightforward chronological framework
Occasional Poem: a poem written about or for a specific occasion, public or private.
Plot: arrangement of action
Precision: exactness
Referential: refers to a certain historical time or event
Reflective (meditative) Structure: a textual organization based on the pondering of a subject, theme, or event, and letting the mind play with it, skipping from one sound to another or to related thoughts or objects as the mind receives them.
Sestina: an elaborate verse of structure written in blank verse that sonsists of six stanzas of six lines each followed by a three-line stanza.
Setting: A specific time and place
Shakespearean Sonnet: divides the poem into three units of four lines each and a final unit of two lines. Classic rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Simile: when one thing is directly compared to something else
Situation: The context of the literary work's action, what is happening when the poem begins
Sonnet: a fixed verse form consisting of fourteen lines usually in iambic pentameter
Spacial Setting: place involved in a poem
Speaker: A character who is not the poet that tells the story
Stanzas: a section of a poem marked by extra line spacing
Symbol: something that represents something else
Syntax: sentence structure
Technopaegnia: the art of "shaped" poems in which the visual force is supposed to work spiritually or magically
Temporal Setting: the time of a poem
Terza Rima: a verse form consisting of three line stanzas in which the second line of each stanza rhymes with the first and third of the next.
Theme: a statement about the subject of a poem
Tone: Attitude of the speaker toward the subject
Traditional Symbol: a symbol that already stands for something before the poet cites it; usually widely known/accepted in literature
Villanelle: a verse form sonsisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas--five tercets and one quatrain.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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