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thought resulting in the elevated expression of ideas
Poetry
Poetry includes language used for its ______ as well as for its __________
meaning
aesthetic qualities
language appealing to the senses
Imagery
words appealing to one or more of the five senses
concrete language
the implications and emotional overtones some words carry beyond their dictionary definitions
Connotative meaning
Can create or enhance: mood, meaning, and emphasis
Sound
correspondence of sound
rhyme
regular recurrence of sound
Rhythm
considered by many to be the defining characteristic of poetry
Rhythm
the basic structural division of poetry
line
divisions of poems based on thought, meter, or rhyme
Stanzas
Blow high, blow low, not all its snow could quench our hearth fire’s ruddy glow.”
Snow-Bound
Snow-Bound author
John Greenleaf Whitter
Theme of Snow-Bound
Relationship between Nature, work, and family
“Not so: but I will know if there be any faith in man.”
Lady Clare
Lady Clare theme
True love
Who’s Lady Clare’s mother
nurse
what element is emphasized in snow-bound
fireplace (warm,cozy)
“Had I the Choice” author
Walt Whitman
author of lady clare
lord alfred tennyson
theme of Had I the Choice
wants inspiration from nature
We Wear the Mask author
Paul Laurence Dunbar
“These, oh sea, all these I gladly barter”
Had I the Choice
“Why should the world be overwise, in counting all our tears and sighs?”
we wear the mask