Chapter7️⃣ Flashcards
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What are the elements of poetry?
Imagery, word choice, sounds, and structure
Words that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
Concrete language
The meaning of a word plus all of its implications and emotional association
Connotative language
A regular place or beat
Rhythm
Divisions in poetry based on thought, meter, or rhyme and recognized by the number of lines they contain
Stanza
A brief poem expressing the personal views of a single speaker on a particular topic
Lyric poem
A composition written in meter
Verse
Verse having end rhyme and regular meter
Rhymed verse
The pattern of rhyme and regular meter
Rhyme scheme
Poetry whose first eight lines form a distance unit of thought and whose last six lines form another
Italian sonnet
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
Poetry with no set meter or rhyme
Free verse
A pair of rhymed lines
Couplet
A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter
Heroic couplet
Poetry whose thought is usually distributed over three quatrains with a concluding couplet, the whole rhyming
English sonnet
A stanza or poem of four lines
Quatrain
A stanza of three lines that usually share the same rhymes
Triplet
A stanza of six lines
Sestet
A stanza of eight lines
Octave
How does poetry differ from prose?
- it uses marks and modes of literature with greater intensity
- it more offen uses language for both its meaning and beauty
- it values imagination and emotion more
How may imagery appear in poems?
- Concrete language
- allusions
- imaginative comarisons
What can sounds of the poems do?
- add to the poems anistetic appeal
- enhance the poems mood
- add emphasis to parts of a poem
What is the most structural division of poetry?
Line
Poetry
An artfully compressed thought resulting to the elevated expression of ideas.
