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25 Cards in this Set
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Allusion |
Reference to another piece of work |
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Diction |
Use of language and word choice |
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Irony |
Saying the opposite of what you mean |
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Meter |
Pattern of word or syllabi stress; the sequence of feet in a line of poetry. |
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William faulkner |
Rose for emily More typical subject matter. Wad focused on the interconnections between a prominent southern family and the local community. |
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Rose for emily |
Faulkner Southern Gothic Sense of gloom, and terror Necrophilia |
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Wallace stevens |
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird Emperor of ice cream Part of modernist movement Poetry existed to illuminate the world's surfaces as well as its depths |
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F Scott Fitzgerald |
Winter dreams Realism writing was popular during this time (1920-1930s) Wrote a lot about the elitists |
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Winter dreams |
Scto Fitzgerald Dexter was a grocery store owner/caddy at a golf course He was holding onto a draft from his youth, his youth is not reality any more. |
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William Carlos William |
The red wheelbarrow Landscape with the fall of icarus Movement of imigism |
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Landscape with the fall of icarus |
William Carlos Williams Allusion Example of ekphrastic poetry -writing about art Unsignicantly and quiet unnoticed -most important lines |
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Ernest hemmingway |
Hills like white elephants Jig - they dance around each other and the issue Third person past tense |
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Marianne moore |
To a snail "Imaginary gardens with real toads in them." Modern poet |
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To a snail Paper nautilus |
Snail- trying to compress your writing in poetry Snails contract and than move forward It's the little details that make sense Nautilus - internal vs. External Protect the inside and don't loose your self along the way |
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Raymond carver |
Popular mechanics Irony- dark outside but it's getting darker on the inside Popular mechanics was a popular magazine |
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Langston hughes |
Negro speaks, mother to son, I too Harlem renaissance Wasn't writing for the college classroom Wanted to capture the oral improvisitory of the black cultute |
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Elizabeth bishop |
Thw fish She describes nature in a lot of her work Creates ordered and Lucid structures |
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Gwen brooks |
We real cool, the mother Passionate sense of language and daring use of formal structures Linked two very different generations of poets |
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Robert lowell |
For the union dead His family was a very aristocratic family, well known The statues aren't changing the people looking at them are |
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Sylvia plath |
Blackberry ingredients In her poems she becomes inaginary, super real hypnotic great classical heroine Known as a confessional poet-writes about what she's been through Blackberrying- first person narrative |
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Iambic |
Untreated then stressed words/syllables in a pattern |
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Trochaic |
Stressed then unstressed pattern |
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Dactyl |
One stresses followed by two unstressed pattern |
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Anapest |
Two unstressed and one stressed pattern |
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Spondee |
Stressed then stressed pattern Not used alone, usually mixed with others. |
