Womens Lit Quiz 2

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Poetry

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A variable literary genre that is, foremost, characterized by the rythmicalqualities of language. Whereas poems may be short (including epigrams and haiku of just a few lines) or long (epics of thousands of lines), the essence of poetry is compression, economy, and force, in contrast with the logic and expansiveness of prose. There is no bar to the topics that poets may consider, and poems may range from the personal and lyric to the public and discursive.

Poetry may refer to the poems of one writer, to poems of a number of writers , to all poems generally, or to the aesthetics of poetry considered as an art.

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Image

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References that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of sights (visual), sounds (auditory), tastes (gustatory), smells (olfactory), touch (tactile), and perceptions of motion. Image refers to a single mental creation, imagery to images throughout a work or works of a writer or group of writers. Images may be literal (descriptive and pictoral) and metaphorical (figurative and suggestive).

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Denotation

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The standard, minimal meaning of a word, without implications and connotations.

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Connotation

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The meanings that words suggest; their overtones of words beyond their bare dictionary definitions or denotations.

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Figure of speech

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An organized pattern of comparison that deepens, broadens, extends, illuminates, and emphasizes meaning and also that conforms to particular patterns or forms such as metaphor, simile, and parallelism.

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Simile

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A figure of speech, using "like" with nouns and "as" with clauses, as in " the trees were bent by the wind like actors bowing after a performance"

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Metaphor

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("Carrying out a change") a figure of speech that describes something as though it were actually something else, thereby enhancing understanding and insight. One of the major qualities of poetic language. "I am a leaf on the wind. Watch me soar."

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Hyperbole

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Overstatement.

A rhetorical figure of speech in which emphasis is achieved through exaggeration.

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Juxtaposition

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The fact of two things being seen or placed together with contrasting effect.

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Convention

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An accepted feature of a genre, such as the point of view in a story, the form of a poem (e.g., sonnet, ode), the competence or brilliance of the detective in detective fiction, the impeneyrability of disguise and concealment in a Shakespearean play, or the chorus in a Greek drama.

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Ballad

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A narrative poem, originally a popular form, composed of quatrains in ballad measure; that is, a pattern of iambic perimeter alternating with iambic trimester and rhyming x-a-x-a

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Haiku

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A verse form derived from Japanese poetry, traditionally containing three line of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, in that order, and usually treating a topic derived from nature.

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Closed form poetry

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Poetry written in specific and traditional patterns produced through control of rhyme, meter, line length, and line groupings.

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Open form poetry

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Poems that avoid traditional structural patterns, such as rhyme or meter, in favor of other methods of organization.

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Most of the poetry in Shakespeare's plays is blank verse, as is the poetry of milton's paradise lost and many of wordsworth's longer poems.

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Free verse

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Poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses, not metrical feet.

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Prose poem

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A short work, laid out to look like prose, but employing the methods of verse, such as rhythm and imagery, for poetic ends.

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Elegy

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A poem of lamentation about a death. Often an elegy takes the form of a pastoral.

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Epitaph

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A short comment of description marking someone's death. Also, a short, witty, and often satiric poem about death.

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Stanza

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A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; stanzic meters and rhymes are usually repeating and systematic.