Literary Movements
a vibrant literary movement centered in Harlem, New York, that redefined African American identity through themes of racial pride, systemic oppression, and cultural heritage. Taking place between around 1916 to 1940.
Italian word for turn, indicating a change in rhyme scheme, tone, or subject.
What is Volta?
a comparison using like or as
Simile
the poet’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject, reader, or themselves
What is tone?
Ezra Pound and T.S. Elliot belonged to this movement
What is modernism?
combined Romantic emotion with realism, addressing industrialization, scientific advances, and faith crises.
What is the Victorian Movement
unrhymed poetry written in consistent iambic pentameter.
What is Blank Verse
a recurring image, sound, action, or phrase that threads throughout a work, serving as a structural, symbolic, or thematic building block to reinforce the author's message
What is a motif?
is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation
What is stanza?
a poem, treatise, or literary work that explains, defends, or meditates on the craft of writing poetry itself.
Sometimes known as the artistic sister to the Black Power Movement
What is the Black Arts Movement
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
What is a couplet?
a literary device that assigns human emotions, actions, or characteristics to non-human entities, objects, or abstract ideas
what is personification?
the underlying, central message or deeper insight into human nature that the poet conveys, extending beyond the surface topic
What is theme?
what is five
Sylvia Plath belonged to this movement
14 lines written in iambic pentameter, structured into three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a final rhyming couplet
the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines, clauses, or sentences to create rhythm, intensity, and emotional impact.
what is anaphora?
the poet’s deliberate choice and arrangement of words and phrases to create specific tones, moods, or meanings
What is diction?
Historical basis for the poem "If We Must Die"
What is The Red Summer of 1919?
Known for the expression "Make it new"
a poetic or theatrical form where a single speaker, who is not the poet, delivers a speech to a silent audience, revealing their inner thoughts, motivations, and personality at a critical moment
What is a dramatic monologue?
a short quotation, phrase, or poem placed at the beginning of a poem or its sections to set the tone, suggest themes, or establish context.
What is epigraph?
An audible pattern in verse established by the intervals between stressed syllables
What is Rhythm
a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter, divided into an eight-line octave (abbaabba) that presents a problem or situation, and a six-line sestet (commonly cdecde or cdcdcd) that resolves it
What is a petrarchan sonnet?