Particular categories of literary work

theory of teaching

a sense of what you want to see in a work of art

references

the act of reconsidering and altering a piece of writing

a composition not in metrical writing

a composition that looks very much like the paragraph you are now reading but has all the heightened, compressed, and figurative language found in poetry.

the ordinary language of writing and speaking

an overused phrase or formulaic structure with a predictable conclusion

derivation

mental pictures or impressions that evoke one of the five senses

those entities that begin on the left side of the page and end somewhere on the right

are made by grouping lines together

a regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables

a variable but nevertheless recognizable pattern of strong and weak elements in a poem (usually used instead of meter when describing prose)

acts, sounds, or objects that signify something other than themselves

the choice of the words themselves

the way that words are put together to form phrases in a sentence

“any fairly short, non-narrative poem presenting a single speaker who expresses a state of mind or a process of thought and feeling” (Defined by M. H. Abrams)

storytelling

a short book of poetry, usually fewer than thirty-two pages

a line that ends with any sort of punctuation (a period, semicolon, comma, or dash)

to wrap a line in the middle of a sentence so that related words are in different poetic lines

two lines of verse that are connected in some way

a group of three lines

a group of four lines of poetry

five lines

six lines

seven lines

eight lines

the arrangement of words in a poem based on the relative stress of their syllables

the process of counting the number of stressed and unstressed syllables and analyzing their patterns

the basic metrical unit in poetry

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/ _

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/ _ _

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one foot

two feet

three feet

four feet

five feet

six feet

seven feet

eight feet

the study of metrical structure

“the agreement of two metrically accented syllables and their terminal consonants” (defined by Mary Kinzie)

the meanings a word suggests rather than specifically names or describes

perfect rhymes

the correspondence between the two rhyme sounds is exact

the rhyme is a stressed syllable followed by one or more unstressed syllables

have three of the same syllables

rhymes of more than one syllable

a rhyme with two rhyming syllables

poetry, usually rhymed, that treats its subject in a comic or good-natured manner

the vowel sounds may be either similar or significantly dissimilar, and the rhymed consonants maybe similar rather than identical.

words that look as if they should rhyme, even though they don’t when we say them aloud

occurs within a single line of poetry

the repetition of initial consonant sounds

the recurrence of consonant sounds

repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of similar end consonants

“a deviation from what speakers of a language apprehend as the ordinary, or standard, significance of words, in order to achieve some special meaning or effect” (defined by M.

H. Abrams)

the author’s selection and placement of words in a line, lines in a stanza, and stanzas in a poem

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily denotes one thing is applied to something else in order to suggest an analogy or a likeness between the two things (Your smile is a bouquet of daffodils)

a figure of speech that states a likeness between two unlike things (Your smile is like a bouquet of daffodils)

the subject to which a metaphor is applied (your smile)

the metaphoric term itself (bouquet of daffodils)

the name of something is substituted with the name of something closely associated with it (the White House means the president of the U.S.A.)

a kind of metonymy although the term is more often used when a part is used to describe the whole (All hands on deck means more than just the crew’s hands)

the awarding of human attributes to an abstraction or nonhuman thing

a play on the multiple meaning of a word or its relation to other words that sound like it

the incongruity between the way things appear and the way they actually are

whens someone says one thing but means another

the results of a situation are distinctly different than one might expect

the style and manner of expression

language that evokes an earlier time

fourteen lines of rhymed iambic pentameter, with varying rhyme schemes

its three rhyming quatrains- abs cdc efef are followed by a final couplet that rhymes gg

italian sonnet. abbaabba cedecde

five tercets and a final quatrain.

Typically in iambic pentameter