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What is a narrative poem? |
Poem that follows a sequence of events/tells a story. |
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What is a lyric poem? |
Shorter poems focusing on a specific subject and characterized by melody and intensity of feeling. |
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What is a stanza? |
Lines in a poem that are grouped together. |
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What is denotation? |
Dictionary meaning |
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What is connotation? |
Emotion/social reactions a reader may have to a word(s). |
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What is a simile? |
An expression of a direct similarity. Using words such as like, as, or, than, b/w two things that would ordinarily be regarded as dissimilar. |
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What are some examples of similes in "Harlem" |
1. Like a raisin in the sun 2. Like a sore 3 Stink like rotten meat 4. Like a syrupy sweet 5. Like a heavy load |
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What is one overreaching metaphor in "Harlem"? |
" A dream deferred" |
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What is a metaphor? |
Figure of speech when two things, usually thought to be dissimilar, are treated as if they were the same. NOT using the word like but rather "the same as". Ex: "All the world IS a stage". |
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What is an implied metaphor? |
Where the "BE" verb is omitted and the comparison may be implied or "buried" rather than stated directly. Ex: "Some dirty dog stole my car". |
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What is an example of an implied metaphor in "Harlem"? |
Does it explode. |
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What is personification? |
Figure of speech in which something non-human is give attributes of a person or is treated as if they are a person. Ex: "Death be not proud". |
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What is an apostrophe? |
A particular type of personification that addresses someone not present as if they are present or capable of understanding. |
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What is Metonymy? |
Figure of speech in which the name of one thing is substituted for that of something closely associate with it. Ex: "The White House announced today..." |
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What is a Synecdoche? |
A special kind of metonymy in which a part of a things is substituted for the whole of which it is a part. Ex: "Give me a hand". |
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What is a paradox? |
Figure of speech in which a statement initially seeming self-contradictory or absurd turns out to make good sense when seen in another light. |
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What is an oxymoron? |
A self-contradictory combination of words or phrases such as "O brawling love! O loving hate! in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". |
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What is a hyperbole? |
An exaggeration or overstatement; a figure of speech in which something is state more strongly than is warranted. |
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What is an understatement? |
Figure of Speech that expresses something in an unexpectedly restrained way. Paradoxically this can be a way of drawing emphasis to something. |
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What is an example of an English sonnet? |
Shakespeare's "That time of year thou mayst in me behold". |
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How are the 3 quatrains and couplet of Shakespeare's "That time of year..." setup? |
q1: Late autumn, relating to self/aging q2: Sunset and light/referencing the aging process q3: Fire that is going out Couplet: Seeing all of this make lover love him more even though death approaches and their time together is growing short. |
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What is an example of an Italian sonnet? |
"God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins |
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What is a prose poem? |
Not separated into lines. Works with all elements of poetry except line. Often written in common paragraph form. |
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What is a quatrain? |
A 4 line stanza. |
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What is a sonnet? |
14 line poems that in English are typically written in Iambic pentameter. |
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What is an English Sonnet? |
3 quatrains (four line units with rhyming scheme of abab, cd cd, ef ef) and a couplet (two rhyming lines). |
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What are achetypes? |
Symbols, characters, or plot lines that have been used again and again and carry a nearly universal significance. |
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What is an Italian sonnet? |
Consists of an Octave (8 line unit) rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet (6 line unit) rhyming cdecde or cdcdcd. Often octave develops an idea, question, or problem and sestet completes it or provides a solution. |
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What is a sestina? |
Lyric poem consisting of 6 six-line stanzas and a 3 line concluding stanza or envoy. 6 end words of 1st stanza must be used as end words of other 5 stanzas in a prescribed pattern. |
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What is blank verse? |
Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter most widely used form in English poetry. |
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What is a couplet? |
Unit consisting of 2 consecutive lines of poetry with the same end rhyme. |
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What is free verse? |
Poems free of predetermined metrical and stanzaic patterns. Can be called open form because the poem must have form. |
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What is internal form? |
The inner arrangement or organization of a poems parts and context. |
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What is parallelism? |
When elements of equal weight within phrases, sentences, or paragraphs are expressed in a simillar grammatical order and structure. |
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What is juxtaposition? |
Placement of things side by side or close together for comparison or contrast or to create something new from the union, w/o necessarily making them grammatically parallel. |
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What is a narrative? |
A poet recounting an event as a sequence of actions and details. |
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What poem provides an example of aprostrophe? |
"Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne |
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What is an example of a dramatic poem? |
"The Bean Eaters" by Gwendolyn Brooks |
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What is an onomotopea? |
Words that sound like what they mean? Ex: Chitter in "The Sound of Night" |
