Set 2 Poetry Terms

Front 1

Allegory

Back 1

Edmund Spenser

"Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds,
Am now enforst a far vnfitter taske,
For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;
Whose prayses hauing slept in silence long,
Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds
To blazon broad emongst her learned throng:
Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song."

Front 2

Closed Form

Back 2

"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."
Robert Frost

Front 3

Sonnet

Back 3

1. Talking to myself there
2. Someone had overheard.
3. I was lost for a word.
4. There was nothing to share.
5. Embarrassed I was there.
6. Left awkward and absurd .
7. A broken wingless bird.
8. With nowhere to fly there.
9. Caught red faced there was I.
10. Didn't want to be seen.
11. I just wanted to die.
12. I just wanted to scream.
13. I'm so terribly shy.
14. Lost for words it would seem

Front 4

Convention

Back 4

What is interesting to note is that this attitude is exactly that which the medieval courtly lover adopted: leaping up to attend errands, trudging through heat or cold at the bidding of one's lady was an honorable thing.

Front 5

Diction

Back 5

in a look until dropped like an egg on the floor
let SLOP, crashed to slide and run, yolk yellow
for the live, the dead who worked through me

Front 6

Alliteration

Back 6

Don't Delay Dawns Disarming Display .
Dusk demands daylight .
Dewdrops dwell delicately
drawing dazzling delight .
Dewdrops dilute daisies domain.
Distinguished debutantes . Diamonds defray delivered
daylights distilled daisy dance

Front 7

Blank Verse

Back 7

What is the boy NOW, who has lost his BALL,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over-there it is in the wate

Front 8

Characterization

Back 8

By thy LONG GREY BEARD AND GLITTERING EYE,
How wherefore stopp'st thou me?

Front 9

Couplet

Back 9

I found a starfish in the BAY
When I was fishing YESTERDAY

Front 10

Denotation

Back 10

And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each

Front 11

Epic

Back 11

By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited

Front 12

Hyperbole

Back 12

The SKIN ON HER FACE WAS AS TIGHT AND DRAWN AS THE SKIN OF AN ONIONand her eyes were gray and sharp like the points of two picks

Front 13

Imagery

Back 13

A host of GOLDEN DAFFODILS

Front 14

Onomatopoeia

Back 14

Zip goes the jacket

Front 15

Understatement

Back 15

Steinbeck gives Lennie the last name of “Small.”

Front 16

Tone

Back 16

"There's a patch of old snow in a corner,
That I should have guessed
Was a blow-away paper the rain
Had brought to rest."
Robert Frost

Front 17

Foil

Back 17

in Sherlocke Holmes Watson is the foil

Front 18

Recognition

Back 18

'Tis he:--O brave Iago, honest and just,
That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong!
Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead,
And your unblest fate hies: strumpet, I come.
Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted;
Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted

Front 19

Subplot

Back 19

in Happy Gilmore the subplot is when he is looking after his Grandma and fighting for her house

Front 20

Complication

Back 20

Every man with a teen-aged son or daughter had to participate in a lottery to detemine who would have to go to Crete.