Nunning Flashcards
(39 cards)
What is the phonological level?
Linguistic level of sound, metre and rhythm, as well as on that of relations between sounds.
Includes rhyme and other sound patterns, alliteration, consonance, assonance, etc.
What is the syntactic level?
Linguistic level of sentences.
Involves parallel arrangement of sentences or sentence components, lines, fragments, omission of words, etc.
What is the morphological level?
Linguistic level of individual words and their formation.
Includes repetition of words, prefix, suffix, root words, etc.
What is the semantic level?
Linguistic level of meaning.
Involves figurative language.
What are pragmatic figures?
Rhetorical figures that refer to the context and the communication or speech situation.
Includes apostrophe and rhetorical questions.
What is an apostrophe?
A rhetorical device where the speaker addresses an absent person, an inanimate object, or an abstract concept as if they were present.
Example: “O, Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”
What is a rhetorical question?
A question that does not require an answer, or whose answer is obvious.
Example: “Would it kill you to stop chewing your food with your mouth open?”
What is explicit subjectivity?
Clearly perceptible and present lyric persona who refers to him- or her-self in the first person singular.
Example: “The curtain I have drawn for you, but I) And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, How such a glance came there; so, not the first”
What is implicit subjectivity?
The textual speaker appears not as an individualized lyric persona but can be discerned in the choice and subjective coloration of the content.
Example: “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.”
What is a caesura?
A break in metre which divides up a line of verse into parts.
Example: “Two households, // both alike in dignity, / In fair Verona, // where we lay our scene.”
What are heroic couplets?
Rhyming couples composed in iambic pentameter, known for their epigrammatic concision.
Example: “True wit is nature to advantage dress’d, What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.”
What is split rhyme?
Rhyme created by dividing a word at the line break.
Example: “no ling- (2nd line) ering”
What is end rhyme?
Rhyme between stressed final vowels in lines of verse.
Example: “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright! In the forests of the night.”
What is internal rhyme?
Full rhyme between two or more words within the same line of verse.
Example: “and a clatter and a chatter from within”
What is identical rhyme?
Rhyme formed by the repetition of the same word.
Example: “But I said, ‘I’ve a pretty rose-tree’ Then I went to my pretty rose-tree”
What is pararhyme?
Special case of consonance; initial and final consonants are repeated but the vowel is varied.
Example: “Courage was mine, and I had a mystery Wisdom was mine, and I mastery.”
What is eye/sight rhyme?
Use of homographs; written in the same way but pronounced differently.
Example: “dies and eternities”
What is mosaic rhyme?
Division of one of the rhyme words into more than one word.
Example: “What is it and visit”
What is chain rhyme?
A rhyme scheme of aba bcb cdc.
What is tail rhyme?
A rhyme scheme of aab ccb.
What is epanalepsis?
Repetition of words in close succession or after other intervening words.
Example: “Peace, peace, thou hippopotamus!”
What is anadiplosis?
Repetition of the end of the preceding clause/line of verse at the beginning of the next.
Example: “And gentle wished long subdued Subdued and cherished long!”
What is polyptoton?
Repetition of a word in different inflected forms.
Example: “thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young”
What is figura etymologic?
Repetition of a root in different forms.
Example: “lit some lighter light of freer freedom”
