Poetry Terms Set 2

Front 1

allegory

Back 1

In the book, __________, there is an allegory on russian communism.

Front 2

blank verse

Back 2

MacBeth
William Shakespeare

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Front 3

closed form

Back 3

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though.
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Front 4

connotation

Back 4

the denotation for hot is high temperature, but the connotation of hot is attractive.

Front 5

convention

Back 5

the conventional ending to a fairy tail is: "happily ever after"

Front 6

couplet

Back 6

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
William Shakespeare

...Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never write, nor no man ever loved.

Front 7

denotation

Back 7

the denotaion for cool is:
moderately cold; neither warm nor cold

Front 8

epigram

Back 8

A Lame Begger
John Donne

I am unable, yonder beggar cries,
To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies.

Front 9

foil

Back 9

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Watson's obtuseness contrasts Sherlock Holme's deductions.

Front 10

foot

Back 10

HEL-lo

Front 11

free verse

Back 11

An example of this type of poem is the one we read in English class, 13 ways to look at a blackbird.

Front 12

octave

Back 12

Milton's Sonnet 19

When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent

Front 13

ode

Back 13

In the Ode to Aphrodite, Sappho celebrated the greek god, Aphrodite.

Front 14

open form

Back 14

In English, we have to write an open form poem.

Front 15

quatrain

Back 15

The Mountain
Donna Brock

The mountain frames the sky

As a shadow of an eagle flies by.

With clouds hanging at its edge

A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge.

Front 16

reversal

Back 16

A turn of events in Star Wars, where Luke finds out Darth Vader is his dad.

Front 17

satire

Back 17

The Yeomen of the Guard
W. S. Gilbert

I can set a braggart quailing with a quip,
The upstart I can wither with a whim;
He may wear a merry laugh upon his lip,
But his laughter has an echo that is grim!

Front 18

seset

Back 18

A Pair
Teagan


We are indeed a pair my lover,
Bound by our love for each other.
By silken threads and words
And ties that in no way bother
Tied yet free we do not smother
Bound by love, free as birds.

Front 19

sonnet

Back 19

An excerpt from Visions
Francesco Petrarch

Being one day at my window all alone,
So manie strange things happened me to see,
As much as it grieveth me to thinke thereon.
At my right hand a hynde appear’d to mee,
So faire as mote the greatest god delite;
Two eager dogs did her pursue in chace.
Of which the one was blacke, the other white:
With deadly force so in their cruell race
They pincht the haunches of that gentle beast,
That at the last, and in short time, I spide,
Under a rocke, where she alas, opprest,
Fell to the ground, and there untimely dide.
Cruell death vanquishing so noble beautie
Oft makes me wayle so hard a desire.

Front 20

subplot

Back 20

In the Dark Night, the main plot is for Batman to fight the joker. However, there is a subplot in which he has a love for Rachel, but can't be together with her.