Chapter 1 - Appreciating the Poetry Flashcards
A part, usually the first half of a poetic line.
Colon
A poetic line comprised of one colon.
Monocolon
A poetic line comprised of two cola
Bicolon
A poetic line comprised of three cola
Tricolon
A poetic line comprised of four cola
Quatrain
The basic unit of a poem, usually made from two corresponding units/cola, but sometimes from 3 or 4 and expressing one complete parallelistic thought.
Line
A group of closely related poetic lines; analogous to a paragraph in prose.
Strophe
A group of closely related strophes.
Stanza
The literary technique of marking the beginning of two sequential sections by repeating grammar or vocabulary.
Head Linkage
The literary technique of marking the beginning and the end of a section by repeating vocabulary.
Inclusion
A relationship of correspondence between the cola of a poetic line, typically manifesting some kind of addition or movement from one colon to the next.
Parallelism
Type of parallelism that is expressed through grammatical equivalence, that is, the substitution in the second colon of something grammatically different from, but equivalent to, an element in the first colon.
Grammatical Parallelism
the correspondence in meaning that exists between the cola of a poetic line.
Semantic Parallelism
What is the older understanding of parallelism?
saying the same thing twice in different words. A Technique of poets who express in many different ways the same thing in different words.
What is the newer understanding of parallelism?
parallelism is the art of saying something similar in both cola but with a difference added in the second cola. Usually there is some kind of movement from the first to the second colon, some kind of addition.
