Monday, October 8, 2007

Intro to Literature

Poetry


Point of View: Perspective which story is told.


Tone: Attitude toward subject.


Rhyme Scheme: Pattern of rhyme with individual poem or fixed pattern. (abab)


Meter: Regular, rhythmatic pattern in verse. Involve stressed syllabols.


Iambic Pentameter: a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable


Iambic tetrameter-4 iambs


Iambic trimeter-3 iambs


Iambic Dimeter- 2 iambs


Monometer- 1 iamb


Hexameter- 6


Heptometer- 7


Octometer- 8


Nonameter- 9


Decameter- 10


Ex: Trochiac Octameter:


Once Upon a Midnight Dreary while I pondered weak and weary.

8 Feet


Figure of Speech: What it might mean, not the literal meaning.


Metaphor: Comparing without using like or as. Any broad comparison.


Simile: Comparing using like or as.


Ballad Meter: p. 770, my life had stood a loaded gun (8, 6, 8,6), written as a song.


Sonnet: 14 lines, sometimes in iambic pentameter, ababcdcdefefgg, couplet, quatrains.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? “But thy eternal summer shall not fade.”


Couplet: 2 stanzas long.


Quatrains: 4 line unit


Anapest: Two unstressed followed by a stressed syllabol. On a boat, in a slump.


Dactyl: one stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed. Battery, wonderful.


Stanza: reocurring pattern of two or more lines of verse


Irony: Writer says one thing, means the opposite.


Blank Verse: Unrhymed iambic pentameter.


Shakespearen Sonnet: Iambic rhyme scheme (p.857) sonnet, 3 quatrains, abab, couplet, conclusion at the end.

Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet: 1 octave, 1 seset, transition in shift in poem.


Symbol: Something concrete that stands for something abstract.


Allegory:

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