Terminology Flashcards
(17 cards)
Anaphora
Repetition at the beginning of the line
Conceit
An extended metaphor that runs through the entire poem and is the poem’s central device
Apostrophe
Any instance when the speaker talks to a person/object that is absent from the poem (e.g. a long lost lover or someone that has died)
Metonymy
A part for a part - “the pen is mightier than the sword”
pen = writing
sword = fighting
have to be directly related
Synecdoche
A part for a whole - “the wheel” for a car
Zeugma
When one verb is used to mean two different things for two different objects
e.g. “He ate some pasta, and my heart out”
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds in a line
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds in a line
Sonnets
- usually sweet and romantic
- uses iambic pentameter
- 14 lines
- Petrarchan sonnet - has an octave rhyming abba abba, and a sestet usually rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde -> often, a question is raised in the octave that is answered in the sestet
- Shakespearean/Elizabethan sonnet, has the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg and three quatrains
Allusion
an indirect reference to something that the poems wants to acknowledge as relevant to the poems meaning
Paradox
a self-contradictory phrase
“cowards die many times before their deaths”
Sibilance
repetition of ‘s’ that creates a hiss
Connotation
emotional, psychological or social overtones of a work
implications and associations apart from it’s literal meaning
Blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
Free verse
no prescribed pattern or structure
SPECS
S - subject matter
P - purpose
E - emotion, mood or feeling
C - craftsmanship/technique
S - summary of the poem as a whole
SLIMS
S - structural techniques
L - language techniques
I - imagery
M -movement (rhythm)
S - sounds
