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| someone or thing not in correct time or historical period |
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balanced writing about conflicting ideas
"searching never finding" |
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wise quote about life
"A penny saved is a penny earned", Ben Franklin aphorism |
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literary device of addressing an absent or dead person
sonnoteers used it a lot. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth..." ( really means Corpse of Caesar) |
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poetry written in UNRHYMED Imabic Pentameter
Shakespeare and Milton |
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a pause for effect
"To err is human, BIG PAUSE, to forgiv, devine" |
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comparison between disparate objects
"comparing a flea bit to the act of love" |
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implying a different meaning than the literal one
"Good night, sweet prince" = death |
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| repeated consanants in poetry |
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two rhyming lines of poetry
Heroic couplet: rhyming iambic pentameter (Shakespeare's epic sonnets) |
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| literal meaning of a word |
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| choice of words or phrases writers use to create meaning |
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| sudden deep insights about life |
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| introduction of a story...provides background....etc |
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language not meant in a literal sense
oxymoron, hyperbole |
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| e.e. cummings poetry NO RULES |
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| 2 syllables in a 5 measure line of poetry Shakespeare |
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| "Yet certain am I of the spot" |
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| say one thing, mean another |
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instead of using the same word over and over for a character
the ocean = the great whale's way |
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John Donne
Clever wit, "I saw eternity the other night, like a great being of pure and endless light" |
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| a key phrase, name, idea in or across literary works |
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8 line stanza poetry w/ rhyme scheme pattern
Don Juan written in Octava rime |
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| seeming untrue statement that upon closer look is true |
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| humorous imitation of another work |
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using same grammar structures to show a balance of meaning or sound
the psalms in the bible do this |
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| making something non-human have human characteristics |
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4 line poetic stanza
shakespeare poop |
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2 part analysis of poetic line
counting the number of syllables per line |
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| character, alone, solo speech abut author's philosophy or universal truths |
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| metaphor - calling a vehicle "wheels" |
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| variable meter poetry - stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| author's attitude toward subject, readership, characters |
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in the middle of a poetic work
tune and food are assonant |
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| meaning beyond its literal meaning |
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| ridiculous attempt to portray pathos - to evoke pity |
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| geometry of contagious countries...what? |
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