Vocabulary
Consonance is a specific form of this literary device in which the repetition of sounds begin with the same consonant sound.
What is Alliteration?
A poem of fourteen lines divided (usually) by rhyme and argument into units of an octave and a sestet.
What is a Sonnet?
The act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
What is Soliloquy?
Name one of the three qualities of Ezra Pound's idea about poetry that would eventually help shape the modernist movement.
What is:
1. Make it new
2. Musical > Metronome
3. No extra words
Name the formal poem that is composed of a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi
What is a Sestina?
Ezra Pound called it "that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instance of time."
What is the Image?
This emerges from the numerical control of rhythm in composition.
What is Meter?
What is Dramatic Irony?
Name two of the poetic movements that we generally consider to be a bridge between modernism and postmodernism.
What is: The Confessionalists, The Beats, or The New York School.
What is being personified in this quote from The Crucible?
'The edge of the wilderness was close by. The American continent stretched endlessly west, and it was full of mystery for them. It stood, dark and threatening, over their shoulders night and day...'
What is The American Wilderness?
This literary device is defined as the moment when the outcome is the opposite or completely different from what was expected.
What is Situational Irony?
Identify the form of this stanza:
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
What is a Ballad?
The story of The Crucible serves as this, which is a substitute for the 1950s Red Scare.
What is Allegory?
Name two of the many qualities we talked about when defining the modernist aesthetic.
What is:
No Spokesperson, Authenticity, Clean Diction, Organic, Complexity of Experience, etc.
Identify the form of the poem below:
There was a young lady of Lynn,
Who was so uncommonly thin
That when she essayed
To drink lemonade
She slipped through the straw and fell in.
What is a Limerick?
This style of verse is synonymous with Shakespeare's work. You can identify it by its lack of rhyme and its and consistent use of iambic pentameter.
What is Blank Verse?
Scan these lines and determine its meter:
Seeing pretty ladies dancing
Makes me long for fine romancing.
What is Trochaic Tetrameter?
Name two of the many qualities that define a one-act play.
What is:
Character > Plot
Often Begin the the Middle of Things
No Breaks, Fast Paced
etc.
Name some of the qualities of the postmodern movement that we discussed in class.
What is:
Spiritual liberation, sexual liberation, spontaneity in creation, deeply personal, choice is stronger than truth, little care for structure, etc.
Identify the term for a collection of stressed and unstressed beats – usually two or three syllables.
What is a Metrical Foot?
Traditionally means a recurrent element of subject matter, but the modern insistence on simultaneous reference to form and content emphasizes the formal dimension of the term.
What is Theme?
A thirty-one-syllable poem, traditionally written in a single unbroken line.
What is a Tanka?
The titular Crucible functions as what literary device for the play?
What is a Symbol?
What is the style of analysis that was popularized in the mid 20th century that we practice in this class?
When performing a close reading of a poem or other literary text, what is the phrase we have refered to in class as being particularly important when developing a claim?
What is "what the text say, and how it says it?"