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ISHALL Mid-Term 1
Poetry Vocabulary - Weeks 2 & 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Iambic Foot | A metrical unit of verse based on the iamb, which comprises an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one. |
| Trochee | A metrical foot of poetry having two syllables where the accent falls on the first syllable rather than on the second, as it does in the iamb. |
| Metaphor | Figurative language that compares one word or thing in terms of another word or thing by way of direct transference. |
| Simile | A figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as like or as. For instance, "She sings like a bird" is a simile. |
| Symbol | A concrete image, word, or thing that refers to an abstract idea or condition. For instance, a wedding ring is a symbol of marriage |
| Assonance | Correspondence or 'rhyming' of vowel sounds, e.g. eat, sleep; ooze, droop. |
| Euphony | The impression of sounds that are pleasing to the ear. |
| Alliteration | Repeated consonant sounds, particularly at the beginning of words, e.g. 'kiddies' clobber', 'mountains of moonstone'. |
| Poetic Meter | A line of poetry that contains a certain number of poetic feet. The name of the specific meter is decided by the type of poetic feet and the number of them. For example; To be,/ or not/ to be,/ that is/ the question. This is an iambic pentameter. |
| Octave | The first eight lines of a sonnet. This usually builds up the issue in the poem. |
| Sestet | The last six lines of a sonnet. This usually resolves the issue and concludes the poem. |
| Pertrarchan/Italian Sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd. |
| Shakespearean/English Sonnet | A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg |
| Sonnet | A verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines in iambic pentameter with rhymes arranged according to a fixed scheme, usually divided either into octave and sestet or, in the English form, into three quatrains and a couplet |
| Poetic Foot | A foot is a unit of meter, consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| Irony | A rhetorical figure referring to the sense that there is a discrepancy between words and their meanings (verbal), between actions and their results (situational), or between appearance and reality (dramatic): or saying one thing and meaning another. |
| Enjambment | A line of poetry in which a thought or idea continues to the next line without stopping. |
| What Poems did Robert Frost Write? | - "The Road Not Taken" - "The Silken Tent" - "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| What Poems did John Keats Write? | - "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" - "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" |
| What important Poem did Archibald MacLeish write? | - "Eleven" |
| What poems did William Wordsworth write? | - "The World is Too Much With Us" - "London, 1802" - "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" |
| What poems did William Blake write? | - "The Lamb" - "London" - "The Tyger" |
| Prosody | The structural/theoretical side of verse. |
| Metonymy | A basic trope or figure of speech in which the name OR an attribute of an object is given to the object itself. "The pen is mightire than the sword." |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech which involves exaggeration, excess or extravagance. "I'm starving." instead of "I'm hungry." |
| Synechdoche | A rhetorical figure whereby a part stands for the whole. "All hands on deck." |
| Allegory | "In other speaking." A narrative in which - through illusion, metaphor, symbolism, etc. - can be read not simply on its own terms but as telling another quite different story at the same time. |
| Anaphora | A repitition of the same word at the beginning of sucessive clauses or verses. |
| Personification | The endowment of animals, objects, or abstract ideas with human qualitites |
| Analogy | A figure related to metaphor in which resemblance between two or more things can be extended and/or repeated |
| Synesthesia | Blending sensorial experience as in "a loud shirt" is blending sight with hearing. |
| Paradox | Beside/Beyond Opinion An apparent self-contradiction (Even absurd) statement which, on closer inspection, is found to contain a truth reconciling the conflicting opposites. |
| Oxymoron | Combines incongrous and apperently contradictory words and meanings for special effect. |
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