TEST: Tuesday - revised list of terms to know and identify in poems.
Hint may wish to (re)read these poems - I will chose examples from Quizlet - and this list:
1. Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz" - Presented by Jason
2. Sexton, "Her Kind"
3. Olds, "Rite of Passage"(with Audio) Presented by Tristan
4. Williams, "This Is Just to Say" Presented by Ashley
5. Eliot, "The Winter Evening Settles Down" Presented by Ed
6. Tennyson, "The Eagle" Presented by Colin and Connor
7. Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" Presented by Emma H
8. Browning, "My Last Duchess" (with Audio) Presented by Felicia and Heidi
9. Plath, “Metaphors” Presented by Ben
10. Lawrence, “Piano” Presented by Nico and Shannon
Poem of Choice - Due Wednesday.
Apply the elements of poetry including figurative language and the senses to create imagery:
G = gustatory (taste)
O = organic (internal sensation)
A = auditory (sound)
T = tactile (touch)
V = visual
O = olfactory (smell)
K = kinesthetic (movement)
Consider the choices you make in terms of the structure of the poem (stanzas, line breaks, format) and the sounds of the words (alliteration, consonance, assonance plus connotation and denotation).
Metaphor: one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea, or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two.
"she is a fen of stagnant waters"- London (Wordsworth)
Simile: an explicit comparison between 2 different things, actions, or feelings, using the words 'as' or 'like'
"Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay"
- Do not go Gentle into that Good Night (Thomas)
Personification: a figure of speech by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate things are referred to as if they were human.
"Press close bare-bosom'd night"
"cool- breath'd earth!" - Song of Myself (Whitman)
Oxymoron: a figure of speech that combines two contradicting terms in a compressed paradox
" O Death in Life..." - Tears, Idle Tears (Tennyson)
Paradox: a statement or expression so surprisingly self contradictory as to provoke use into seeking another sense or context in which it would be true
"a novice beginning yet experient of myriads of seasons" - Song of Myself (Whitman)
Juxtaposition: placing two contrasting ideas side by side
"... blinding sight" - Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (Thomas)
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Pun: an expression that achieves emphasis or humour by contriving an ambiguity, two distinct meanings being suggested either by the same word or by 2 similar sounding words
"And every fair from fair sometimes declines" - Can I compare thee to a summer's Day (Shakespeare)
Theme: a salient abstract idea that emerges from a literary work's treatment of its subject matter; a recurring topic in a number of literary work
If you follow what God tells you to do, you will go to heaven- The Chimney Sweeper (Song of Innocence)
Tone: a vague critical term usually designating the mood or atmosphere of a work. Adjectives: romantic, nostalgic, ironic, sardonic, etc. See blog for list.
The Chimney Sweeper- Song of Experience- Dark Tone
Irony: a subtly humorous perception of inconsistency, in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined by its context so as to give it a very different significance.
My Papa's Waltz (Roethke)- title is ironic because the dad's "dance" is very rough, unlike the waltz
Metonymy: a figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of something else closely associated with it
"... altar, sword, and pen" [*stand for church, army, and other scholars*] - London (Wordsworth)
Apostrophe: a rhetorical figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an abstraction or inanimate object
" 'Doth God exact day- labor, light denied?' I fondly asked" - When I considered how my light is spent (Milton)
Parallel structure/ parallelism: the arrangement of similarly constructed clauses, sentences, or verse lines in a pairing or other sequence suggesting some correspondence between them
"And their sun does never shine,
And their fields are bleak & bare,
And their ways are fill'd with thorns"
- Holy Thursday, Songs of Experience (Blake)
Rhetorical Shift/ volta: a change in tone, attitude, speaker, subject etc. in a poem
"Rage, rage, Rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I Pray."
- Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan
[ Shift between "the light" and "And you, my father"]
Inversion: the reversal of the normally expected order of words.
said she
End- stopped: brought to a pause at which the end of a verse coincides with the completion of a sentence, clause, or other independent unit of syntax
I sat under the jacaranda, catching
the petals in my palm, enclosing them
until my fist was another lantern
hiding a small and bitter flame.- The Girl who loved the Sky by Anita Endrezze
Enjambment: the running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse line or couplet to the next without a punctuated pause.
Onomatopoeia the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to
(Whack, fizz)
alliteration the repetition of the same sounds- usually initial consonants of words or of stressed syllables
"Whiskey, waltzing, wrist" "battered, beat, bed"
"My Papa's Waltz" Theodore Roethke
consonance the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighbouring words whose vowel sounds are different
"Infant's tear... Marraige hearse" - London (blake)
[tear and hearse have the similar -ear spelling but are said in 2 different manners]
assonance repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
"returning chide" and "light denied"- When I consider how my light is spent (Milton)
or
Hit or miss
half rhyme/ slant rhyme a rhyme that doesnt exactly rhyme
"Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,
they rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind" (pronounced Wined) - The Chimney Sweeper, Song of Innocence (Blake
end rhyme rhyme occurring at the ends of verse lines
"Gave thee life, and bid thee feed
By the stream and o'er the mead"
"The Lamb" , Song of Innocence William Blake
Internal Rhyme: Two or more rhyme within the same line or verse
I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores
Plus:
Example of Scansion of Iambic Pentameter in Macbeth
