Creative Writing
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- eckphrasis
- description of an art in poetry Ex. Eavan Boland's "The Photograph on My Father's Desk
- Acrostic Poem
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Poem, usually with no rhyme or meter that uses the first letter of every line to spell out something. Ex. Nancy Weaver
Boys!
Are better busied
Slinging bats and stealing bases;
Even measuring odds,
Batting averages
Angles and trajectory and ...
Losers, unknown to composers of
Lovely concertos.
- scansion
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shows the counting that remains constant in a line of feet
- Trochee
- foot that is a louder syllable followed by a softer Ex. HAPPy
- Iamb
- foot that is a softer syllable followed by a louder one. Ex. desPAIR
- Anapest
- type of foot that has two softer syllables followed by a ouder one: in the HOUSE
- epigram
- short, pithy, witty and conclusive poem
- Allusion
- Reference to history, a literary work, ideas, or myth. Ex. William Blake's "A Sick Rose" alludes to Shakespeare's line "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds"
- epic
- Long narrative poem, often in blank verse, and used to be historical records Ex. Homer's "Iliad"
- Alliteration
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Repeating beginning consonant sounds of words. Ex. Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
"He gives His Harness bells a shake" - English/Shakespearean/Elizabethan Sonnet
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14 lines of iambic pentameter
abab
cdcd
efef
gg - Terza rima
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repeating 3 line stanza in a "weaving" pattern
aba
bcb
cdc - Foot
- the repeated pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables in a poem and / or line.
- Villanelle
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lines that repeat in tercet rhyme. last line is quatrain
abc Ex. Do not Go Gentle into
cde that Good Night
afg Edward Thomas
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akl - End-stopped line
- When the sense pauses or stops at the end of the line. Ex. Milton-"Brought death into the world, and all our woe..."
- Assonance
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Repetition of Vowel sounds
Ex.Keats "Ode to a Nightengale": But, in embalmed darkness, guess EACH SWEET" - reversed foot
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a foot in a line that is backwards than the other feet in the line/poem.
/~ ~/ ~/ ~/ - Caesura
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A pause within a line
Ex. Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit.
Milton, paradise lost - onomatopoeia
- a descriptive word that sounds like the think it describes Ex. boom, swish
- Consonance
- same consonance sounds found anywhere in the word.
- Italian/Petrarchian Sonnet
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14 lines iambic pentameter
abbaabba
cdecde (or so) - Concrete Poetry
- A poem that is visually pleasureable as well as auditorily pleasurable. What the poem looks like is connected to the meaning of the poem.
- Conceit
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complex, unlikely metaphor that still makes sense.
Ex. Donne's The Flea - enjambment
- when the sense runs over the end of a line. Ex. Milton "With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us
- couplet
- two lines that rhyme or 2 line stanzas
- Prose Poem
- poems written in paragraphs. Shares most of the qualities of poetry (images, metaphores), with no real action or plot
- Blank Verse
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iambic pentameter without rhyme
Ex. Spencer's The Faery Queen - simile
- comparison using like or as
- Ballad
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Narrative poem in quatrains, usually rhymes:
tetrimeter,trimeter, tetrimeter,trimeter
Ex. Sir Patrick Spens
The king has written a braid letter,
And signd it wi his hand, 10
And sent it to Sir Patrick Spence
Was walking on the sand. - Spenserian Sonnet
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14 lines iambic pentameter
abab
bcbc
cdcd
ee - dactyl
- a foot that has a louder syllable followed by two softer ones Ex. CHANGEable
- Syllabic verse
- poem whose lines are based on different syllable length (ex. haiku) Ex. Marian Moore's "The Monkeys"
- Dramatic Monologue
- long poem usually in blank verse and is from the perspective of one particular character Ex. Robert Browning "My Last Dutchess"
- Spondee
- a foot of two equally heavy accents
- Diction
- choice and use of words in speech or writing
- meter
- count of syllables that usually com e in pairs, and one is louder than the other
- Lyric
- short, imagistic poem
- rhythm
- an approximate recurrence or repetition in the pacing of sound
- Haiku
- Japanese created syllabic poem that goes in syllable lines of 5/7/5
- sestina
- end words repeat in a different order for every stanza. 6 line stanzas/ change order 6 X
- metaphor
- comparison without using like or as
- rhyme scheme
- the repeated order of rhyming words
- Narrative poem
- poem, usually long, that tells a story.
- Quatrain
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Stanza of four lines
aaaa, abab, abca, aabb, abba, and so on - symbol
- person, place, object, or event that comes to standfor something other than what it is, usually something more than it is, and for a class of events or relationships.
- tercet
- 3 line stanza