Modes of Poetry
This type of poem includes a problem or a proposition and a solution or resolution.
What is a sonnet?
The character created and embodied by a poet in a poem.
What is a poetic persona?
A pause or stop in the middle of a line of poetry due to punctuation. This creates emphasis on specific ideas.
What is a caesura?
Group of words that do not form a clause or sentence.
What is a fragment?
A pair of syllables containing an unstressed (short) syllable, followed by a stressed (long) syllable.
What is a foot?
The type of sonnet that has an octave (8 lines) and a sestet (6 lines).
What is a Petrarchan/Italian sonnet?
Language that is perceived through the senses. Language that expresses something physical, tangible, and verifiable. (Hint: Not Imagery)
What is concrete language?
The reader’s emotional reaction to the text. The type of feelings evoked in you--the reader.
What is mood?
Groupings of words that create a fragment/phrase, clauses, and/or sentences.
What is a syntactic unit?
A pair of syllables containing a stressed syllable (long), followed by an unstressed syllable (short).
What is a trochee?
The sonnet form wherein each quatrain (4 lined-stanzas) sets up a specific idea that interlocks the ending rhyme scheme into a 12-line unit before presenting the couplet (2 lines).
What is a Spenserian sonnet?
A monologue in which a character in a play expresses thoughts and feelings while being alone on stage.
What is a soliloquy?
A short poem intended for (or imagined as) an inscription on a tombstone and often serving as a brief elegy.
What is an epitaph?
A form of poetry that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters, and includes a plot, setting, and development of a conflict.
What is a narrative poem?
A pair of syllables containing two long (stressed) syllables.
What is a spondee?
Any poem expressing deep grief, usually at the death of a loved one or some other loss.
What is a lament?
Language expressing emotions and ideas, extending beyond the realm of the senses.
What is abstract language?
A quotation from another literary work that is placed beneath the title at the beginning of a poem or section of a poem. For example, Grace Schulman’s “American Solitude” opens with a quote from an essay by Marianne Moore. Lines from Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America” preface Alfred Corn’s “Sugar Cane".
What is an epigraph?
From the Greek tradition. A poem inspired by a piece of artwork.
What is an ekphrastic poem?
The number of feet in a line.
What is meter?
A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is an ode?
A poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader. The components that make up this type of poetry include:
1st person point of view;
Direct address to the audience and identification of who they are;
Exploration of a conflict
What is a dramatic monologue?
A brief hymn or song of lamentation and grief; it was typically composed to be performed at a funeral.
What is a dirge?
From the Latin word that means letter. A poem written in the form of a letter or note.
What is an epistle?
A metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
What is an iamb?