Pope To Eliot

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Iambic pentameter

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Has 5 iambs per feet in a line, 10 syllables.
Example: Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock

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Heroic couplet

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Pairs of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter
Example: Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock

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Alliteration

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Repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Example: Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover

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Consonance

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Repeating consonant sounds in a line
Example: Pope, Rape of the Lock

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Assonance

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Assonance: Repeating vowel sounds in a line
Example: Pope, Rape of the Lock

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Personification

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Taking something inanimate and writing about it as human
Example: Pope, Rape of the Lock

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Periphrasis

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A roundabout, elegant way of avoiding a cliché/a “tired” noun
Example: Pope, Rape of the Lock

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Parallelism

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Repeated sentence structure in adjacent sentences/clauses
Ex: Pope: Rape of the Lock

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Epic

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invokes a muse, usually a woman/godlike figure, have long quests, heroes, supernatural
Ex: Parody – Pope, Rape of the Lock

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Zeugma

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One verb applied to two dissimilar nouns
Example: Pope, Rape of the Lock - “stain her honour, or her new brocade”

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Ballad

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poem of song, often 4 line stanzas (2 + 4 rhyme), key phrases repeat
Ex: Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads

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Sublime

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Romantic poets used this, combination of fear and beauty, impossibly frighteningly beautiful (ex: standing outside in a thunderstorm)
Ex: Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

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Ode

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a genre- a lyric poem in elevated/high style often addressed to a natural force, a person, or an abstract quality
Example: Keats, Ode to a Grecian Urn

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Sonnet

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14 lines, 10 syllables a line (iambic pentameter)
Ex: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #22

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Dramatic monologue

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Poem, single speaker – not poet, audience in poem, speaker unintentionally reveals aspects of his/her character
Example: Robert Browning, My Last Duchess

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Inscape

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Each entity in the universe enacts/performs its identity in a unique way
Ex: Gerard Manley Hopkins, As Kingfishers Catch Fire

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Instress

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Humans are alone in their ability to recognize the inscape of others (the act of recognizing). In the act of instress, the human becomes a celebrant of the divine
Ex: Gerard Manley Hopkins (The Windhover)

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Sprung rhythm

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2 words stuck together w/ U shaped symbol – squashing in extra syllable
Ex: Gerard Manley Hopkins, As Kingfishers Catch Fire

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Aphorism

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Pithy + pointed phrase expressing an opinion, maxim or general truth. Advice.
Ex: Wilde

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Epigram

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Up until 18th century a term applied to any very short poem since 18th century can apply to prose too. Often ends w/ a surprising/witty turn. Surprse
Ex: Wilde, “All women become like their mothers, no man ever does”

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Stream of consciousness

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looking inward, narrative form to depict thoughts + feelings that pass thru mind, flowing inner monologue
Ex: Virginia Woolf, the Mark on the Wall