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Intro to Poetry 2&3
Vocab terms for units 2 and 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conveys an attitude toward the person addressed; may tell how the speaker feels about himself or herself | Tone |
| Kind of comic poetry that generally conveys a message | Satiric Poetry |
| Fictitious character: not the poet, but the poet's creation | Persona |
| A manner of speaking that implies a discrepancy | irony |
| If the mask says one thing, and we sense that the writer is in fact saying something else | Ironic Point of View |
| Whenever words say one thing but mean something else, usually the opposite; contrast between speaker's words and meaning | Verbal Irony |
| If verbal irony is conspicuously bitter, heavy-handed and mocking | Sarcasm |
| Contains an element of contrast, but it usually refers to a situation in a play wherein a character whose knowledge is limited says, does, or encounters something of greater signification than he or she knows | Dramatic Irony |
| A situation that precedes the downfall of a hero in a tragedy (as opposed to dramatic irony) | Tragic Irony |
| Some fate with a grim sense of humor; seems cruelly to trick a human being | Cosmic irony/irony of fate |
| Choice of words | Diction |
| Words that refer to what we can immediately perceive with our senses (dog, actor, chemical), or particular individuals who belong to those general classes (Clint Eastwood, hydrogen sulfate) | Concrete words |
| Words that express ideas or concepts (love, time, truth); some characteristics found in each individual are left out and instead observe a quality common to many | Abstract Words |
| An indirect reference to any person, place, or thing; fictitious, historical, or cultural | Allusion |
| Period from about 1660 into the late 18th Century when many poets subscribed to a belief in poetic diction | Neoclassical Period/Augustan Period |
| A system of words refined from the grossness of domestic use | Poetic diction |
| The appropriateness of style to subject; admitted into a serious poem only certain words and subjects, excluding others as violations of this propriety | Decorum |
| Speech not much affected by schooling | Vulgate |
| Words, phrases, and sentences may be ranked in an ascending order of formality | Levels of Diction |
| Casual conversation or informal writing of literate people | colloquial |
| most literal speech and writing, but not pretentious | General English |
| Impersonal language of educated persons, usually only written, possibly spoken on dignified occasions | Formal English |
| Particular variety of language spoken by an identifiable regional group or social class of persons | Dialect |
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