Poetry Terms Set Dos: Context

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Allusion

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"My eyes look into the top of my head
at the wreath of snakes that sometimes crowns me."
(by Stanley Moss)

Front 2

Alliteration

Back 2

"This pale lumineSCence
that drifts in upon them
makes a Blue Bole of their caves,
a SCare of their SCything
tails." (by Ron De Maris)

Front 3

Foil

Back 3

In the Last Sin Eater by Francine Rivers the main character Cadi can be compared and contrasted to Lilybet. Lilybet isn't a person but a being that isn't described in the book. She may be an angel, a conscience, or piece of Cadi's mind. Lilybet guides Cadi and encourages her to seek the truth and decide for herself.

Front 4

Closed Form

Back 4

You better not || fool with a || BumbleBEE!— (2 dactyls)-~~(1 spondee)
Ef you don't think || they can sting— || you'll SEE! (2 anapest) ~~- (1 spondee)
They're lazy to look at, an' kind o' go
Buzzin' an' bummin' aroun' so slow,
An' ac' so slouchy an' all fagged out,Danglin' their legs as they drone about.
( by James Whitcomb Riley)

Front 5

Sonnet

Back 5

A)"A barefoot boy! I mark him at his play—
B) For May is here once more, and so is he,—
B) His dusty trousers, rolled half to the knee,
A) And his bare ankles grimy, too, as they:
A)Cross-hatchings of the nettle, in array
B) Of feverish stripes, hint vividly to me
B) Of woody pathways winding endlessly
A) Along the creek, where even yesterday
B) He plunged his shrinking body—
C)gasped and shook—
D) Yet called the water "warm," with never lack
C) Of joy. And so, half enviously I look
D) Upon this graceless barefoot and his track,—
D) His toe stubbed—ay, his big toe-nail knocked back
C)Like unto the clasp of an old pocketbook."(A Barefoot Boy
by James Whitcomb Riley)

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Convention

Back 6

This poem is a sonnet.
You can tell because it has fourteen lines and has a specific ending. These two characteristics make it classified as a sonnet.
by Margaret Walker

1) When I was a child I knew red miners
2)dressed raggedly and wearing carbide lamps.
3) I saw them come down red hills to their camps
4) dyed with red dust from old Ishkooda mines.
5) Night after night I met them on the roads,
6) or on the streets in town I caught their glance;
7) the swing of dinner buckets in their hands,
8) and grumbling undermining all their words.

9) I also lived in low cotton country
10) where moonlight hovered over ripe haystacks,
11) or stumps of trees, and croppers’ rotting shacks
12) with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by;
13) where sentiment and hatred still held sway
14) and only bitter land was washed away.

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Diction

Back 7

"Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song"
(by Stephen C. Foster)

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Blank Verse

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(Roger Mitchell)
"A history of some sort, one that made us,
a war and what the war had meant, or since
meaning eludes war, what it did to the look
of the trees and the sides of the buildings,
most of which survived, only to be torn down
later to widen the street or put up a new
office complex. "
(none of these lines rhyme with each other and are not similar in length.)

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Characterization

Back 9

This poem implies a characteristics of a man.
"He’d started preaching late
after giving up on farming
and owning a grocery store.
[He] had to move out
and into a house
where he had to pay rent
like real people.
[He] tried to raise the baby boy
but couldn’t do that neither.
and put the boy in the orphanage
up for adoption."
(by David Lee)

Front 10

Complication

Back 10

In Animal Farm, complication happened when the action was rising and when the animals are planning how to revolt.

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Couplet

Back 11

by Robert Frost

Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,
And here on earth come emulating flies,

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Denotation

Back 12

DE-NO-TA-TION
n.
1. The act of denoting; indication.
2. Something, such as a sign or symbol, that denotes.
3. Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol.
4. The most specific or direct meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.

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Epic

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by Lucretius

"Delight of Human kind, and Gods above;
Parent of Rome; Propitious Queen of Love;
Whose vital pow’r, Air, Earth, and Sea supplies;
And breeds what e’r is born beneath the rowling Skies:
For every kind, by thy prolifique might,
Springs, and beholds the Regions of the light:
Thee, Goddess thee, the clouds and tempests fear,
And at thy pleasing presence disappear:
For thee the Land in fragrant Flow’rs is drest,
For thee the Ocean smiles, and smooths her wavy breast;
And Heav’n it self with more serene, and purer light is blest...etc. etc. "

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Hyperbole

Back 14

I’m blind as a bat, I couldn’t even see who it was.
by Margaret Atwood

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Imagery

Back 15

by Ruth Moose

All our life so much laundry;
each day’s doing or not comes clean,
flows off and away to blend with other sins of this world. Each day
begins in new skin,
blessed by the elements charged to take us out again to do or undo what’s been assigned.
From socks to shirts
the selves we shed lift off the line
as if they own a life apart from the one we offer.
There is joy in clean laundry.
All is forgiven in water, sun
and air. We offer our day’s deeds
to the blue-eyed sky, with soap and prayer, our arms up, then lowered in supplication.

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Onomatopoeia

Back 16

She is used to this sort of thing.
Her blacks crackle and drag.
by Sylvia Plath

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Recognition

Back 17

It dawns on George that he has to shoot Lennie for the good of them both.

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Subplot

Back 18

In Animal Farm, a story that is minor in the book, is the story of the character Molly. It isn't necessary in the story, but helps prove a point."

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Tone

Back 19

There is a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies blow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow
by Thomas Campion

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Understatement

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Opposite of hyperbole.
"When the child had chicken pox, cholera, and malaria,
the doctor announced, 'No need to fret. She could be worse."
The grandmother said sarcastically, "Ya sure. She's just having an allergic reaction!"