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| A lyric poem that is melancholy or mournfully contemplative. Sometimes laments death. |
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| A lyric poem that is long, elaborate and on a lofty theme such as immortality or a here's victory. |
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| Single character speaking at a critical moment, usually addressed to some other character who remains silent ("my last Duchess") |
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| A poem whose mail purpose is to tell the story |
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| A kind of comic poetry that conveys a message. |
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| Written to state a message or treat a body of knowledge; not currently popular |
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| A choice of words and / or grammatical constructions ( I.e. formal, colloquial, jargon, slang, etc.) |
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| Everyday speech; particular to an area or group of people. |
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| Non - logical language; not to be taken literally. |
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Verbal Irony
A. Sarcasm
B. Understatement
C. Hyperbole |
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Contrast between what is said and what is meant.
A. heavy mocking rental irony.
B. Saying less than what is meant
C. Overstatement. Exaggeration. He died a 1000 deaths.
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| Contrast between what is intended and what is accomplished. |
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An apparent contradiction
("he who would save his life must loose it") |
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Suggested or associated meaning
(skeleton= death) |
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Dictionary definition
(skeleton=bony structure) |
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| Sensory content of poems, appeals to the 5 senses. |
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Symbol
1. Natural symbols
2. Conventional symbols
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An image loaded with significance beyond literal definition, suggestive rather than definitive
- Symbols recognized for standing for something in particular even from people from different cu cultures. ( rain = fertilaty)
- symbols which people have agreed to accept as standing for something other thahi themselves. (Rose oils the symbol for love.)
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| Stresses at regular intervals |
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| The study of the principles of verse , including meter, rhyme, and other sound effects and stanzaic patterns. |
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| The stress is equally distributed over 2 adjacent syllables. |
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| A pattern of stressed (accented) sounds in English poetry |
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| A basic unit of measurement in a line of poetry. On rare occasions, single stressed syllable, but usually concise it's of 2 or 3 syllables. One of which is stressed. (Stress is indicated by lack of stress by the poem) the relit ion of feet then produces a pattern of stresses throughout |
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- Iam or iambic foot: 1 stressed syll. Followed by 1 unstressed syll.
- Trochee or trochiac foot: 2 unstressed syll. Followed by 1 stressed syll.
- Anapest or anapestic foot: 2 stressed syll. Followed by 1 stressed syll.
- Dactyl or dactylic foot: 1 stressed syll. Followed by 2 unstressed syll.
- Spondee or spondaic foot: two stressed syll. Most often used as a substitute for an iam or trochee
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Line consists of one or more feet nd is named for the number of feet
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| Scanning a line of poetry for the kind and number of feet. |
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