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Poetry chap 1-8
Baker's SS&S poetry terms and poems chapters 1-8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| language used to communicate information | practical language |
| language used to persuade | hortatory language |
| language used to communicate experience | literary language |
| 4 dimensions of a person to which poetry speaks | mind, emotions, imagination, senses |
| reference book essential to poetry analysis | dictionary |
| the exercise of translating a poem into your own words, making figurative language literal but retaining the point of view | paraphrase |
| deliberate choice of words for effect | diction |
| purposeful use of sentence structure | syntax |
| 3 elements of every word | denotation, connotation, sound |
| the literal, dictionary definition of a word | denotation |
| the emotional content communicated by a word | connotation |
| language that appeals to the senses | imagery |
| appealing to the sense of sight | visual |
| appealing to the sense of hearing | auditory |
| appealing to the sense of touch | tactile |
| appealing to the sense of smell | olfactory |
| appealing to the sense of taste | gustatory |
| appealing to the sense of motion | kinetic |
| appealing to the sense of bodily movement | kinesthetic |
| appealing to internal feelings | organic |
| language that means exactly what it says | literal |
| language that means something other than what it says | figurative |
| a particular example of figurative language | figure of speech/ rhetorical figure |
| a comparison of two unrelated things using a word of direct comparison (like, as, similar, etc.) | simile |
| speaking of one thing as if it were another thing without a word of direct comparison | metaphor |
| speaking of a non-human thing as if it were human | personification |
| speaking to something that cannot hear and respond as if it could hear and respond | apostrophe |
| speaking of a part of something as if it were the whole thing | synecdoche |
| speaking of a related object as if it were the thing itself | metonymy |
| an object that is present in the work but that also represents an abstraction in the work | symbol |
| a complex web of symbols in which characters and events represent philosophical or religious truths | allegory |
| Robert Herrick poem expressing "Carpe Diem" philosophy through flower symbolism | "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" |
| two mutually exclusive conditions that somehow are both true | paradox |
| exaggeration for effect | hyperbole (overstatement) |
| downplaying the importance or extent of something for effect | understatement |
| using a statement to mean its opposite; the listener understands the intended meaning | verbal irony |
| a situation in literature in which the reader/ watcher knows more than a character knows and so can recognize unintended consequences before they are evident | dramatic irony |
| a situation in literature or life in which the intended outcome is the opposite of the expected outcome but is somehow appropriate or the real condition is the opposite of the expected condition but is appropriate | situational irony |
| spoken words that mean the opposite of what they say, intended to criticize | sarcasm |
| writing that criticizes human folly or vice, often through exaggerated imitation | satire |
| Shelley sonnet picturing the crumbling remains of a great statue and the inscription under it | "Ozymandias" |
| a reference to information outside the work itself which the writer expects the reader to recognize and respond to | allusion |
| Wilfred Owen poem dramatizing the horrors of death in modern warfare | "Dulce et Decorum Est" |
| Williams' imagist poem depicting a farmyard scene with tools and chickens | "The Red Wheelbarrow" |
| Archibald MacLeish poem defining poetry | "Ars Poetica" |
| Ben Jonson's sonnet mourning the death of his son | "On My First Son" |
| John Donne poem explaining to his wife why she should not cry when he leaves for a long trip | "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" |
| The Frost poem depicting a difficult choice between equally attractive alternatives | "The Road Not Taken" |
| a h umorous five-line poem with an aabba rhyme scheme | limerick |
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