Figurative Language in Poetry (Gilbran P.44)
By repeating "Defeat" in successive lines, Gilbran is employing this rhetoricAl device.
What is anaphora?
The type of sense imagery seen here: "It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows."
What is visual imagery?
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in Shakespearean lines like "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" or in words such as "deduce" and "resolve"
What is an iamb? (or iambic rhythm)
Double Jeopardy: Because of its "biological mimicry," the iamb may be called the h____ b____ rhythm.
A poem with 14 lines, ABAB CDCE EFEF GG rhyme scheme made popular by Shakespeare, often about love and loss
What is a sonnet?
The meter and rhythm here (you need only do one line; they're all the same)
She lived in storm and strife. Her soul had such desire For what proud death may bring That it could not endure The common good of life,
What is iambic trimeter?
By talking to Defeat in the opening stanza, Gilbran employs this "grammatically twinned" type of FL.
What is apostrophe?
The type of sense imagery employed by the word "satiny" in this line: "She was very handsome, with a certain fine, rich coloring that belongs to the healthy brune type. She was quite composed, as she idly stroked the satiny coat of the cat that lay curled in her lap,"
What is tactile imagery?
The opposite of an iamb, this rhythm can, ironically, be seen in the word "heartbeat."
What is a trochee (trochaic rhythm)?
A poem that has exactly three lines in each stanza.
What is terza rima?
In the same lines, which of these is used: ASSONANCE, MASCULINE RHYME, FEMININE RHYME, SLANT RHYME, CONSONANCE
She lived in storm and strife. Her soul had such desire For what proud death may bring That it could not endure The common good of life,
Double Jeopardy: Define masculine rhyme
Double Jeopardy: Define consonance
Double Jeopardy: Define feminine rhyme
Being that laurels are symbols of victory (think ancient Greek Olympics) and he finds joy in aloneness and scorn, we can best call these lines . . .
Ironic
Double Jeopardy: Which type of irony is the general incongruity or reversal of expectations?
In the passage, below, what three consecutive words employ metaphor?
“Will you let me speak to you a moment or two, Mr. Brantain?” she asked with an engaging but perturbed smile. He seemed extremely unhappy; but when she took his arm and walked away with him, seeking a retired corner, a ray of hope mingled with the almost comical misery of his expression. She was apparently very outspoken."
What is "ray of hope?"
The rhythm and foot in names such as "i-ZAI-rah" or "bar-BER-o"
What is an amphibrach?
An Italian form pre-dating Shakespeare, its octave sets out an argument and its sestet its solution
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
Double Jeopardy: How many lines in an octet plus a sestet?
The lines, "Made thee in rags, halting to th’ press to trudge, /Where errors were not lessened (all may judge)" makes use of ________ rhyme
What is end rhyme OR masculine rhyme?
Double Jeopardy: What is the difference between exact rhyme or slant/off rhyme?
Double Jeopardy: "Slant" and "off" rhyme are best called s________.
Stanzas three through five use all of the following FL devices EXCEPT which one:
ALLITERATION, METAPHOR, PERSONIFICATION, AUDITORY IMAGERY, METONYMY
What is metonymy?
The phrase, "face was radiant and hers was triumphant" repeats the NOUN-LINKING VERB-ADJECTIVE syntax, creating p__________ s__________.
What is parallel structure?
Identify the meter of a line using the "rhythm of nature" if it has five feet.
What is anapestic pentameter?
A poem of exactly 19 lines with chain rhyme
What is a villanelle
The poem below is written in what form?
They are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens,
And along the trampled edges of the street
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.
The brown waves of fog toss up to me
Twisted faces from the bottom of the street,
And tear from a passer-by with muddy skirts
An aimless smile that hovers in the air
And vanishes along the level of the roofs.
What is free verse?
Double Jeopardy: Written in the early 1900's the use of free verse with imagery of being "trampled," "damp souls" and despondency best matches what literary era of loss, hopelessness, and an aversion to regularity?
What is a comma?
In this passage (I—I had no idea—that is, I must wish you good-by"), the use of punctuation to represent and help characterize is known as s______ s_______.
What is symbolic syntax?
Double Jeopardy: What punctuation device is used between the "I's?"
Double Jeopardy: What is the function of the punctuation mark above a) gentle addition, b) stammered, flustered speech, c) stutter
The opposite of the anapestic rhythm that creates a jarring sound, as in "Half a league, half a league, half a league"
What is dactylic?
______ uses iambic AABB, but _______ uses iambic ABAB
What is a heroic couplet and ballad meter?
This poem's rhyme scheme:
Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory,
As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear!
What is ABCB DEFE GHIH
Double Jeopardy: "Victory" and "Today" is best called _____ rhyme?