Unit 7 Flashcards
(44 cards)
What are the elements of poetry
Imagery
Word choices
Sounds
Structure
Is artfully compressed thought resulting in the elevated expression of ideas
Poetry
Words that appeal to one or more of the 5 senses
Concrete language
The meaning of a word plus all of its implicit and emotional associations
Connotative language
A regular pace or beat
Rhythm
Divisions in poetry based on thought,meter, or rhyme and recognized by number of lines they contain
Stanza
A brief poem expressing the personal views of a single speaker
Lyric poem
Composition written in meter
Verse
Having end rhyme and regular meter
Rhymed verse
Pattern of rhyme and regular meter
Rhyme scheme
Poetry whose 1st 8 lines form a distinct unit of thoughts
Italian sonnet
Poetry whose thought is usually disturbed over 3 quatrains with a concluding couplet, the whole
English sonnet
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
Poetry with no set meter or rhyme
Free verse
A pair of rhymed lines
Couplet
Pairing of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter
Heroic couplet
Stanza or poem of 4 lines
Quatrain
Stanza of 3 lines that usually share the same rhyme
Triplet
Stanza of 6 lines
Sestet
Stanza of 8 lines
Octave
How does poetry differ from prose
It uses the marks and modes of literature with great intensity
It more often uses language for both its meaning and beauty
It values imagination and emotion more
Imagery may appear in poems in following forms
Concrete language
Allusions
Imaginative comparisons
What is the most basic structural division of poetry
The line
The structure of exodus 15:1-8 is formed by what?
Parallelism
Repetition