Some terms
Who was callled the Pious Mohegan
Samson Occom
Oral, public communications that can serve a variety of purposes
speech
a stanza of four lines of poetry
quatrain
One unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable
Iamb
Lines of iambic pentameter rhymed in pairs
heroic couplet
Each two-or three-syllable unit in a line of poetry
poetic foot
Artful deviations from literal speech or normal word order
figurative language
a standard hymn meter; lines are iambic
common meter
A comparison using like or as
simile
an imaginative comparison of two dissimilar things
metaphor
couplet
A work of nonfiction in which an author tells his own life story
autobiography
recurrence of significant phrases, images, and ideas to reinforce a message
repetition
a similar structiure in two or more phrases, clauses, or sentences
Parallelism
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
personification
A striking, often elaborate, comparison carried out in considerable detail
conceit
A question asked, not to recieve an answer, but to achieve an effect
rhetorical question
Divisions of a poem based on thought, meter, or rhyme
stanza
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line
meter
An address to an absent person, abstraction, or object
One whose poetry resembles that of seventeenth-century poets, exploring intellectual and theological subjects as well as clever poetic devices and ingenious word play
metaphysical poet
a stanza of six lines of poetry
sestet
Descriptive words or phrases that appeal to sense perceptions to create an impression
imagery
A statement that seems to be self-contradictory, yet actually makes sense when understood in the right context
What does Edward Taylor's poetry primarily concern?
Religious meditation