poetry features Flashcards
(34 cards)
alternating rhyme scheme?
ABAB
rhyming couplets
AABB
enclosed rhyme scheme
ABBA
sonnet
14 lines, about love, often lyrical problem and soloution, sestet and octave, has a TURN not a volta
Petrarchan sonnet
14 lines, volta, sestet, octave, about love
dialectical form
when the poem is written in the way an accent sounds, adds personality
autobiographical poem
tells a story or a narrative
dominant and silent persona
when a poem seems to be conversational but only one person speaks which is the dominant persona
lyrical poem
when it has a musical and paced sound to it
extended metaphor
when something is used to represent something else like the deer in who so lost
alliteration
same letter at beginning of multiple words
sibilance
repetition of S sound had multiple effects in different contexts
phonology
use of sounds to create effect
simile
saying something is like something else
double entendre
multiple meanings to one thing
anapalestic tretameter
2 unstressed syllables 1 stressed creates slow rhythm
anapalestic trimeter
2 stressed one unstressed creates fast rhythm
internal rhyme
when words in a line of the poem rhyme
syndetic listing
when a list has connectives
asyndetic listing
when a list has commas not connectives
trochaic tretameter
stressed and unstressed syllables that make the poem have a musical quality like in ae fond kiss
cyclical structure
when the poem begins and ends in a similar situation
anaphora
when different sentences starts with the same beginning
syntactic parallel
repetition among adjacent sentences