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Poetic Terms for A.L
American Lit Poetic Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Verbal irony | Saying something different from what is meant. |
| Situational irony | discrepancy between what appears to be true and what actually exists |
| Dramatic irony | The character says one thing, but the other means the opposite |
| Types of rhyme | End rhyme, internal rhyme, beginning rhyme, half or partial rhyme (if it has similar sounds but not actually rhyming) |
| Alliteration | repeated beginning sounds |
| Assonance** | Repeated vowel sounds |
| Consonance | Repeated consonant sounds |
| Onomatopoeia** | Words that are sounds "boom" "pow" etc. |
| Dissonance | Harsh or clashing sounds, like a tongue-twister |
| Rhythm | Cadenced movement in time. Stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Meter | Regular rhythm in terms of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of verse |
| Iambic meter** | Alternating stressed then unstressed symbols. |
| Diameter | 2 feet of poetry |
| Trimetre | 3 feet of poetry |
| Tetrameter | 4 feet of poetry (Emily Dickinson uses this) |
| Pentameter** | 5 feet of poetry |
| Free verse | No meter, no rhyme or regular rhythm. Uses parallelism and repitition (Walt Whitman) |
| Rhyme scheme | Deals with line structure alternating = a,b,a,b... couplet = a,a,b,b... quatrain = 4 lines making a paragraph |
| Sonnet (the English Sonnet) | 3 quatrains and one couplet (14 lines) |
| Diction** | word choice |
| dialogue | conversation between 2 or more characters |
| monologue | conversation the one character is having with themself |
| figurative language | talking about one subject but hinting at another |
| metaphor | comparision. no connecting word. |
| personification | giving human qualities to a non-human object |
| apostrophe | addressing an inanimate object |
| oxymoron** | the yoking together of opposites |
| paradox** | an apparent contradiction "The coolness of his passion" |
| synecdoche | a part for the whole |
| conceit | an extended metaphor, developed at length. Comparing one thing throughout the entire poem. |
| allusion | reference to something well-known |
| synesthesia | describing one sense in terms of another |
| metonymy | referring to one object by a closely related one |
| parallelism | repeating words, structures, phrases, clauses |
| pun | play on words |
| Poetry that uses parallelism & repitition instead of meter, rhyme, and rhythm. | Free-verse |
| In Success is Counted Sweetest, Dickinson emplys a literary element in which the sound suggests the meaning. | Onomateopia |
| "It was the whiteness that above all things appalled me..." Author & title. | Moby Dick, Melville |
| "There is some dream that on the deck you've fallen cold and dead." | Whitman, O' Captain, My Captain |
| Saying something different than what is meant. | Verbal irony. |
| "God's curse on humanity." Which character said this? | Mrs. Shelby, UTC |
| Ridiculing God as a burgular and banker is which literary device? | Satire |
| Dickinson's paradoxical philosophy of poetry "art of poetry" is expressed in what first key line? | "tell all the truth but tell it slant" |
| For Melville, the purist, real life experience exists in the... | excess |
| Who was Whitman's loving bedfellow? | God |
| What was the opening line spoken by Melville's "every man"? | "Call me Ishmael" |
| Blue-uncertain-stumbling buzz | synesthesia |
| From mothers laps to uncut hair of graves - whose cycle of life was this? | Whitman |
| What was Stowe's final solution to slavery and the main theme of UTC? | Education. |
| "My soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted nevermore." Author & title. | Poe, the Raven |
| Faith is a fine invention - uses wit & sarcasm - what type of poem? | Epigram |
| Whitman denounced modesty & the perception that the body was vile, both precepts of the movement known as... | victorianism |
| "________ is the auction of the mind of man." | Publication |
| "Ma'am she said suddenly, have you ever lost a child?" Author & title. | Stowe, UTC |
| Rowing in Eden is a literary device known as _____? | Allusion |
| Dickinson's conceit poem with auditory imagery started with what line? | "I felt a funeral in my brain" |
| "In this kingdom, by the sea, I and my ______? | Anabelle Lee |
| "It is thou that madly seekest him" Which two characters were involved in this conversation? | Starbuck & Ahab |
| What is Poe's most poetical use of death in his writings? | the death of a beautiful woman |
| "There stood the 2 children, representatives of the extremes of both societies." One was Topsy, who was the other? | Eva |
| The foundation of Whitman's life and work defined as love was illustrated by the support of a ship, called the ____ | Kelson |
| What was the first line of Dickinson's poem whose second line is "by those who never succeed"? | "Success is counted sweetest" |
| Dickinson, who studied the hymnal, used this style to write her 4 feet of verse. | Tetrameter |
| What is the name of Dickinson's poem in which the abstraction "immortality" is the name. | "Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me." |
| Which figurative terminology would we use to describe "sniff of green leaves and the sound of belch words"? | Sensory imagery |
| Whitman and Dr. Buck's mental realization with God is called what? | Cosmic Consciousness |
| "To him, she seemed something almost divine, appeared out from behind the cotton bale." Author & title. | UTC, Stowe |
| What metaphor is Dickinson making in the poem where she says, "she sweeps with many colored brooms"? | a comparison to the sunset |
| "He sufferred from a morbid acuteness of the senses and her disease had long baffled her physicians" Author & title. | Poe, the Fall of the House of Usher |
| figurative language that has a literal and symbolic meaning | allegory |
| "all men are my brothers and the women my sisters and lovers" Author & title. | Whitman, Song of Myself |
| "Spirit of preverseness came to my final overthrow" Author & Title. | Poe, the Black Cat |
| Whitman's unifying metaphor compares the child to.... | a blade of grass |
| In Moby Dick, which 2 characters shared a room together? | Ishmael and Quee Queg |
| "this dust was once the man" Author & subject. | Whitman, Lincoln |
| In UTC Stowe achieves her effect of education in 2 ways, she presents the issues and ideas of slavery and focuses on... | the humanity of the slaves |
| The speaker in any poem is known as... | a persona |
| Whitman's imagery that encompasses the whole pictures is called... | panaramic |
| "She rose to his requirement" is Dickinson's satire of which institution? | Marriage |
| "Those that cross returning home are more curious to me than you suppose" Author & title. | Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry |
| Poe's narrator in Tell-Tale Heart and Black Cat insists he's not angry, but the author gives away that he really is angry. What kind of narrator is this? | An unreliable narrator. |
| "But the blows fell now only on the outer man" Which two characters are involved in this conversation? | Uncle Tom & Simon Legree |
| "Between the light and me" what is the opening line? | "I heard a fly buzz when I died." |
| "The babe of vegetation" Title & author. | Whitman, Leaves of Grass. |
| What POV was Moby Dick written in? | 1st person. |
| "sense of insufferable gloom" Author & title. | Poe, Fall of the House of Usher. |
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