Terms 8 Flashcards
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Pentameter
a verse of five measures or feet
picaresque
a character describes his experiences, satirizing the society he depecits
pitch
height, sharpness, or shrillness of tone
polarities
the fact that art often succeeds in reconciling discordant or opposed elements
pyrrhic
a foot of two syllables both of which are light
quatrain
a four line stanza
quintain or quintet
a five line stanza
refrain
repeated lines in a poem
rhythm, sprung
consists of metrical feet, having one stressed syllable beginning the foot and any number of unstressed syllables
rime royal
a seven line stanza of iambic pentameter
rising meter
poetic meters such as iambic and anapestic that ascend from unstressed to stressed syllables
romanticism
a form of poetry marked by emotions, asymmetry, imagination, individuality, nature, and the past
romance
a long specific, detailed, artful, and often concerned with exciting adventures
scan
analyzing rhythm: meter length of line pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, number of feet
sensibility
implies capacity for emotional response to works of art. is often used as a generic term to denote the general taste, the themes and modes which evoke response in a given literary group or period
septet
a seven line stanza
sestet
a six line stanza or unit of verse: last six lines of an italian sonnet
sestina
a poem of thirty-nine lines in iambic pentameter
Shakespearean sonnet
a sonnet with the looser structure evolved by surrey and adopted by shakespeare, three heroic quatrains with a final couplet
sign
applied to the basic denotation of a word, its basic identification of an idea or object
