Week 10

Front 1

literature device

Back 1

D- Writing techniques used to gain an artistic effect and influence meaning.

E- syntax, cesura, volta, etc

Front 2

syntax

Back 2

D-The way words, phrases, clauses, and sentences are joined to influence meaning(STRUCTURE). Similar to diction, but syntax is the grouping of words, while diction refers to the individual words (CONNOTATION). AKAs Syntactical Style, Sentence Structure, etc.

E- "Go out I cannot" vs " "I can't go out"

E2- “That night I sat on Tyan-yu’s bed and waited for him to touch me. But he didn’t. I was relieved.”

Front 3

enjambment

Back 3

D-The running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse line or couplet to the next without a punctuated pause.

E- “A thing of beauty is a joy forever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and asleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.”

E2- “I am not prone to weeping, as our sex

Commonly are; the want of which vain dew

Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have

That honorable grief lodged here which burns

Worse than tears drown….”

Front 4

volta

Back 4

D-Italian term for the turn in the argument or mood of a sonnet, occurring between the octave and the sestet in the 9th line.

E- 1. He turned the fourteenth glass and said, “Begin.”

2. and I had fourteen minutes left to live;

3. and I had fourteen unrepented sins,

4. and fourteen people whom I would forgive,

5. and fourteen unread books upon my shelf,

6. and fourteen loves I knew I’d loved in vain,

7. and fourteen dreams I’d kept within myself

8. (the fourteen I’d most wanted to explain.)

9. But fourteen minutes quickly passed away.

10. I filled my pen with fourteen drops of ink-11. the fourteenth glass had offered one delay;

12. and fourteen final grains retained the brink.

13. This sonnet flowed like fourteen final breaths-

14. the fourteenth line, the fourteenth grain, then death.

E2- At the round earth’s imagined corners blow

Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise

From death, you numberless infinities

Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go;

All whom the flood did, and fire shall o'erthrow,

All whom war, dea[r]th, age, agues, tyrannies,

Despair, law, chance hath slain, and you, whose eyes

Shall behold God, and never taste death’s woe.

But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space;

For, if above all these my sins abound,

‘Tis late to ask abundance of Thy grace,

When we are there. Here on this lowly ground,

Teach me how to repent, for that’s as good

As if Thou hadst seal’d my pardon with Thy blood.

Front 5

cesura

Back 5

D- A pause in a line of verse, often coinciding with a break between clauses or sentences.

E- Mozart- oh how your music makes me soar!

E2- (Dickinson poem)

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end-stopped line

Back 6

D- A line brought to a pause at which the end of a verse line coincides with the completion of asentence, clause, or other independent unit of syntax. It is the opposite of enjambment.

E- Bright Star, would I were as stedfast as thou art—

Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night,

And watching, with eternal lids apart,

Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite….

E2- A little learning is a dangerous thing;

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,

And drinking largely sobers us again.

Front 7

conceit

Back 7

D- An unusually far-fetched or elaborate metaphor presenting a surprisingly apt parallel between two apparently dissimilar things or feelings.

E- “Thou counterfeit’st a bark, a sea, a wind;

For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,

Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,

Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs;

Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them,

Without a sudden calm, will overset

Thy tempest-tossed body.”

E2- “Oh stay! three lives in one flea spare

Where we almost, yea more than married are.

This flea is you and I, and this

Our marriage-bed and marriage-temple is”

Front 8

refrain

Back 8

D- A line, group of lines, or part of a line repeated at regular or irregular intervals in a poem.

E- The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

E2- It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know…

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love—

I and my Annabel Lee…

Front 9

cadence

Back 9

D- The rising and falling rhythm of speech, especially that of the balanced phrases in free verse or in prose. Also the fall or rise in pitch at the end of a phrase or sentence.

E- “It is not the sunset

Nor the pale green sky

Shimmering through the curtain

Of the silver birch,

Nor the quietness;

It is not the hopping

Of the little birds

Upon the lawn,

Nor the darkness

Stealing over all things

That moves me…”

E2- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

“’Tis some visiter,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

Front 10

in medias res

Back 10

D- Latin for “the middle of things.” The term describes the narrative practice of beginning astory in the middle of the action to involve the reader, and then using one or more flashbacks to fill in what led up to that point.

E- Memento starts at end

E2- Iliad and Odyssey start in the middle