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What are characteristics of poetry? (7)

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  • usually written in verse lines
  • relatively short text form (lyric)
  • dense expression
  • more overstructured than normal sentences (structure, phonology, morphology, syntax)
  • derivation from everyday language = defamiliarisation
  • aesthetic self-referentiality
  • lyric: song-like quality, expressing subjective experience
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What kind of metrical pattern?
And justify the ways of god to man

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Iamb/x

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What kind of metrical pattern?
Tiger, tiger

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Trochee X/

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What kind of metrical pattern?
Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them.

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Dactyl X//

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What kind of metrical pattern?
The Assyrian came down like the wold on the fold.

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Anapaest //x

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What kind of metrical pattern?
Pen-knife
heartburn

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Spondee xx

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One stress per line?

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Monometer

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Two stresses per line?

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Dimeter

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Three stresses per line?

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Trimeter

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Four stresses per line?

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Tetrameter

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Five stresses per line?

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Pentameter

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Six stresses per line?

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Hexameter

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Seven stresses per line?

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Heptameter

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Eight stresses per line?

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Octameter

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What does iambic mean?

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Each short syllable that is not stressed is followed by a long or stressed syllable

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What kind of rhythm?
Thus I
Pass by
And die,
As one,
Unknown,
And gone.

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Iambic monometer

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What kind of rhythm?
The moon shines bright: in such a night as this,
When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees

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Iambic pentameter

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Does a poem have an addressee?

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It can have an addressee, but it doesn‘t have to.

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Does a poem have a speaker?

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Yes, always.

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Whats rhyme?

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Two different words with identical sound from the last stressed syllable onwards

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Whats a one-syllable rhyme?

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Whats a two-syllable rhyme?

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Winning/spinning

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Whats a three-syllable rhyme?

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Mathematical/Attic all

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Whats a continuous rhyme?

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What are rhyming couplets?
Aa bb cc
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Whats alternate rhyme?
Abab
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Whats embracing rhyme?
Abba cddc
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Whats tail rhyme?
Aab ccb
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Whats a leonine rhyme, or internal rhyme?
There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling (in the same line)
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Whats a half-rhyme, or slant rhyme?
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. (Based on consonants) = type of rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical sounds
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What rhyme pattern is that? Aaaa bbbb
Continuous rhyme
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What rhyme pattern is that? Aa bb cc
Rhyming couplets
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What rhyme pattern is that? Abab
Alternate rhyme
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What rhyme pattern is that? Abba cddc
Embracing rhyme
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What rhyme pattern is that? Aab ccb
Tail rhyme
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What rhyme pattern is that? There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling
Leonine rhyme, internal rhyme
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What rhyme pattern is that? It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined
Half-rhyme, slant rhyme
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Whats the definition for a slant rhyme?
Type of rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical sounds
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Whats a sonnet?
Short lyrical poem of 14 lines
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How did the sonnet come to England?
16th century: It came to England from Italy. England first tried to copy Italian sonnet (translation, imitation).
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How is the Italian sonnet constructed?
Octave and sestet (division also used for content division)
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How is the English sonnet constructed?
3 quatrains, 1 couplet
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English sonnet: What does the couplet contain?
Some kind of punch-line (f.e. Summary, comment)
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Italian sonnet: What kind of rhyme scheme?
Embracing rhyme for octoave: abba abba Variation for sestet: cde cde (cce dde, ccd eed, etc.)
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English sonnet: What is the rhyme scheme?
Alternate rhyme for quatrains + final couplet abab cdcd efef gg
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Italian sonnet: What comes after the octet?
The volta
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How can defamiliarisation be achieved?
Breaking syntactical or connotational rules.
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What is meter?
Defined by the kind and number of feet, a particular sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables

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