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ENG 1750 Poetry Exam
The bolded poetry terms in the textbook
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| imagery | language that evokes a physical sensation produced by one or more of the 5 senses (an image we can see on the page NOT in the mind's eye) |
| meter | the recurrence of regular units of stressed/unstressed syllables |
| stress | occurs when one syllable is emphasized more than another |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in consecutive or neighboring words |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds at the ends of words |
| figurative language | -expressions that use words to achieve effects beyond the power of ordinary language -includes metaphors and similies |
| sonnet | 14 line poem with lines containing regular pattern of rhyme and meter |
| elegy | poet mourns the death of a specific person |
| epigram | short poem that makes a pointed comment in an unusually clear, and often witty manner |
| scansion | analysis of patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables within a line |
| foot | a group of syllables with a fixed pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables |
| rising meter | progress from unstressed to stressed syllables (iamb) |
| falling meter | progress from stressed to unstressed syllables (trochee) -ex: London Bridge is falling down |
| caesura (see-zurah) | a pause in a line of poetry |
| cacophony | a jarring or discordant effect |
| euphony | an effect pleasing to the ear |
| onomatopoeia | when the sound of the word echoes its meaning |
| explicate | to analyze a poem (condensed meaning, images, foregrounded sound, etc.) |
| heroic couplet | two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter with a weak pause after the first line and a strong pause after the second |
| quatrain | -most widely used -4 line stanza with lines of similar length and a set rhyme scheme |
| allusion | brief reference to a person, place, or event that readers are expected to recognize |
| diction | word choice of an author, which determines the level of language used in a piece of literature |
| free verse (open form) | varying line length, dispensing with stanzaic divisions, breaking lines in unexpected places |
| literary canon | group of literary works generally acknowledged by critics and teachers to be the best and most significant to have emerged from our history |
| lyric | form of poetry, usually brief and intense, that expresses a poet's subjective response to the world |
| metaphor | concise form of comparison equating two things that may at first seem completely dissimiliar |
| extended metaphor | a comparison used throughout a work |
| sestet | a six line unit with a rhyme scheme of CDC/CDC |
| Shakespearean sonnet | 14 lines divided into 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet written in iambic pentameter -rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
| simile | comparison of two seemingly unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| extended simile | a comparison used throughout a work |
| symbol | person, object, action, or idea whose meaning transcends its literal or denotative sense in a complex way |
| iamb | two syllables, unstressed followed by stressed |
| trochee | two syllables, stressed follow by unstressed (London Bridge is falling down) |
| pentameter | a line with 5 feet in it |
| iambic pentameter | a line with 5 feet in it following an iamb meter |
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