Englisch (Subject) / POETRY ANALYSIS (Lesson)

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Last Glossary in Literary Studides

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  • Hyperbole EXAGGERATION!!!!!!
  • Paradox statement contains basis of truth which reconciles/ connects opposites though it appears self-contradictory
  • Oxymoron figure of speech consists of two contradictory terms
  • Perfect end rhyme identity in rhyming words of last accented vowel all following speech sounds
  • Length of rhyme one syllable rhymes: masculine two or three syllable rhymes: feminine
  • METER pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables in a verse Iamb/ iambic meter xx (control) Trochee/ trochaic meter xx (stupid) Dactyl/ dactylic meter xxx (clumsiness) Anapest/ anapestic meter xxx (contradict) Spondee/ spondaic meter xx (snow storm)
  • Free verse verse that doesn't adhere to fixed pattern of meter, rhyme and other poetic conventions
  • Onomatopoeia formation + use of words to imitate sounds
  • Allegory narrative fiction agents/ actions/ settings are invented to make sense on literal or primary level of signification at same time to signify a second, correlated order of agents , concepts, events
  • synecdoche part of something used to signify whole or whole to signify part
  • symbol object (animate/inanimate) which represents something else
  • Anaphora repetition, of some word at the beginning of successive clauses or verses