Poetry and Poetic Devices
Expresses the personal thoughts and feelings of a single speaker
What is Lyric Poetry?
Insights in life and human nature
What is a theme?
language not meant to be taken literally
What is figurative language?
a character, place, object, or an event that has its own meaning but also represents something else, often an abstract idea.
What is a symbol?
Latin root word meaning body
What is -corp?
unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
emphasis on imagination, supernatural events, dark gloomy settings, tormented characters, and mystery and terror
What are elements of gothic literature?
What is an anaphora?
the taste of cake soaked in the tea
What is sensory language?
A suffix with the literal meaning of "made of" such as the word which means to be made of wood.
What is the suffix - en?
a technique in which a sentence continues beyond the end of one line onto the next
What is enjambment?
Narrators spontaneous flow of thoughts: he must have said that at breakfast one morning when she had gone out on the terrace- Peter Walsh. He would be back from India one of these days...
Oh, moon, you shine so beautifully against the night sky.
What is an apostrophe?
emphasized imagination, fancy, freedom, emotion, wildness, the beauty of the untamed world, the rights of the individual, the nobility of the common man, the attractiveness of the pastoral life.
a prefix that can mean either "not" or "into"
What is the prefix -in?
Using simple diction, along with figurative language and sound devices.
a hovel in the forest, a bleak landscape, and a forest at night are all examples of which gothic element?
What is a gloomy setting?
I can feel it mounting slowly; I can measure the resistance; I can hear the echo
What is anaphora?
The author's reason for writing, which often becomes more clear after analyzing the author's point of view.
What is the Author's purpose?
When words share a common origin. The word motherly comes from Old English, and the word maternal comes from Latin. The meanings are closely related.
What are cognates?
Emphasis on self, emphasis on freedom, ordinary diction, sensory language
What are the examples of the characteristics of Romantic poetry?
What are non-linear narratives?
The moon's bright darkness fills the night's sky.
What is an oxymoron?
For the benefit of the general reader, the writer uses a definition in the writing.
What is technical writing?
best teacher ever
Who is Ms. Christie?