Style
the use of repeated conjunctions between words or clauses in a sentence to emphasize what's being said.
What is Polysyndeton?
a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed, as "waken" and "forsaken" and "audition" and "rendition."
What is a feminine rhyme?
A figure that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human form; the representing of imaginary creatures or things as having human personalities, intelligence, and emotions.
What is personification?
A woman showing
a charcoal-seller his face,
in a mirror.
What is an example of a Senryu?
Any attitude that tends to praise the human element, as opposed to the supernatural, divine elements--or as opposed to the grosser, animal elements.
What is humanism?
the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.
What is Asyndeton
Rhyme between primary and secondary stressed syllables as in such pairs as "childhood" and "wildwood" or castigate and masticate.
What is a compound rhyme?
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
Over the wintry
Forest, winds howl in rage
With no leaves to blow.
What is an example of a haiku?
a philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.
What is existentialism?
a figure of speech in which the same word is used at the end of a clause as at the beginning of a preceding clause.
What is Epanalepsis?
also redundant rhyme or rime riche, in which a word rhymes with a word that is pronounced exactly the same.
What is an identical rhyme?
the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is;
What is an understatement?
Delightful display
Snowdrops bow their pure white heads
To the sun's glory.
What is an example of a haiku?
reverence for beauty; movement that held beautiful form is to be valued more than instructive content. Art for Art's sake. Art has no utility. A belief that there should be a separation between art and moral issues.
What is aestheticism?
The incorrect use of a word in place of a word with a similar sound, either unintentionally or for comedic effect, resulting in a nonsensical, often humorous utterance.
What is Malapropism?
a rhyme in which the sounds are similar but not exactly the same, such as rhyming "park" and "cart." Substitutes assonance or consonance for true rhyme.
What is a slant or near rhyme?
viewing an abstract, immaterial concept as if it were a concrete thing.
What is reification?
When I catch,
The robber,
my own son
What is an example of a senryu?
An ancient Greek philosophy that became popular amongst many notable Romans. Founded by Zeno in 4th century BC. Exalts endurance and self-sufficiency. Virtue consists of living in conformity to the laws of nature. Extreme self-control and restraint of feelings, both pleasurable and painful.
What is stoicism?
needless repetition of an idea by using different but equivalent words
What is Tautology?
result of dividing a word at the end of a line to force a rhyme
What is a broken or split rhyme?
A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. two types: Petrarchan- found in love poems in which the subject is compared elaborately to some object. Metaphysical- a far-fetched comparison between a spiritual aspect of a person and a physical thing in the world.
What is a conceit?
"The bucket's water
poured out and gone,
drop by drop
dew drips like pearls
from the autumn flowers."
What is an example of a tanka?
Pleasure is the chief good of human beings.
What is hedonism?