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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