Emotional Presses
Time in Literature 2
Poetry Terms
Elements of Poesis 2
MISC
100

Demonstrated through openness, exuberance, and a sense of freedom and release

Expression

100

Story Time = Event Time

Scene Time

100

A literary device in which the ending sounds of words are repeated in patterns. Common in, but not essential to poetic expression

Rhyme

100

Pieces of information that are explicitly stated in the text

Certainties

100

Hillary Clinton's delivery of her "Women's Rights are Human Rights" speech in a country whose "one child policy" caused many parents to abandon female-bodied children is an example of the impact of this vector.

Location

200

The performer conveys the sense that they have something to say, but choose not to because of risks they wish to avoid.

Suppression

200

Living completely in the moment

Synchronic Time

200

The repetition of identical consonant sounds at the beginning of words in close proximity.

Alliteration

200

A mode of focus in which the performer speaks to themselves

Inner-Closed

200

Images that draw upon a sense of what is hot or cold are known as this

Thermal

300

The performer's message is distilled into an extremely concise distillation of language and gesture

Compression

300

A symbolic time that allows us to sense the expanse of time through the cycles of seasons, birth and death, the evolution of species, and the formation and erosion of land masses.

Epichronic

300

Reference to a person place or thing that the poet assumes the reader will be aware of

Allusion

300

An element of the poetic impulse which is definied by the need to express meaning an a concise, pithy way.

Compression

300

In his claims about performative writing, Ronald Pelias says that the world is composed of multiple realities, not given, but _________.

Constructed

400

The performer is articulate, but uses a dull tone and sluggish gestures to give a sense of being crowded in or weighed down

Depression

400

Looking back at the past with nostalgia or regret

Anachronic Time

400

A seemingly contradictory statement in which two things are simultaneously true and in tension with one another

Paradox

400

Pieces of information that cannot be proved or disproved. These are based on inferences and hunches. They rely on the creativity of the performer to be communicated to the audience.

Possibilities

400
On Conquergood's moral map, this ethical pitfall happens when a performance leans too much toward commitment and difference

Curator's Exhibitionism

500

The speaker is unable to communicate because they are unaware of what they need to say or unable to articulate it.

Repression

500
A silence that is due to a character's inability to articulate their feelings.

Characterological

500

An inexact comparison between two things which uses "like" or "as" to show the comparison as incomplete

Simile

500

A form of poetry in which the poets voice is submerged beneath characters who speak to one another.

Dramatic

500

Dr. King's mixture of the real lived experience of Black Americans in the 1960s with aspirational ideals about what could be if his dream were realized is an example of how a performance can fluctuate along this continuum.

Factual/Fictional

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