Emotional Presses
Demonstrated through openness, exuberance, and a sense of freedom and release
Expression
Story Time = Event Time
Scene Time
A literary device in which the ending sounds of words are repeated in patterns. Common in, but not essential to poetic expression
Rhyme
Pieces of information that are explicitly stated in the text
Certainties
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
The performer conveys the sense that they have something to say, but choose not to because of risks they wish to avoid.
Suppression
Living completely in the moment
Synchronic Time
The repetition of identical consonant sounds at the beginning of words in close proximity.
Alliteration
A mode of focus in which the performer speaks to themselves
Inner-Closed
Images that draw upon a sense of what is hot or cold are known as this
Thermal
The performer's message is distilled into an extremely concise distillation of language and gesture
Compression
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
Reference to a person place or thing that the poet assumes the reader will be aware of
Allusion
An element of the poetic impulse which is definied by the need to express meaning an a concise, pithy way.
Compression
In his claims about performative writing, Ronald Pelias says that the world is composed of multiple realities, not given, but _________.
Constructed
The performer is articulate, but uses a dull tone and sluggish gestures to give a sense of being crowded in or weighed down
Depression
Looking back at the past with nostalgia or regret
Anachronic Time
A seemingly contradictory statement in which two things are simultaneously true and in tension with one another
Paradox
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
Curator's Exhibitionism
The speaker is unable to communicate because they are unaware of what they need to say or unable to articulate it.
Repression
Characterological
An inexact comparison between two things which uses "like" or "as" to show the comparison as incomplete
Simile
A form of poetry in which the poets voice is submerged beneath characters who speak to one another.
Dramatic
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