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Poetic Terms Keating
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | a literaty device that creates interest by recurence of initial constant sounds of different words with in the same sentence |
| Analogy | a comparison between two things, or pairs of things, to reveal their similarieties |
| Apostrophe | a literary device which consists of rhetorical pause or digression to address a person (distant or absent) directly |
| Conceit | an unusual, elaborate or starling analogy; a poetic device that was common among the Metaphysical poets of the 17th century |
| Connotation | a literary device: a suggested, implied or evocative meaning |
| Context | anything beyond the specific words of a leterary work that may be relevant to the meaning of a literary work |
| Denotation | a literary device. the author uses an explicit or literal meaning of a word in order to emphasize a specific, important fact |
| Diction | the distinct vocabulary of a particular author |
| Concrete Diction | refers to a use of words that are specific and "show" the reader a mental picture |
| Abstract Diction | refers to words that are general and "tell" something, without a picture |
| Elegy | a meditative poem in the classical tradition of certain Greek and Roman poems, which deals with more serious subjects (e.g. justice, fate, or providence) |
| Epic | a long, grand, narritive (story-telling) poem about the brave, exemplary deeds of ancient heros. A "primary" epic the oldest type, based upon oral tradition; a "literary' epic is written down from the start |
| Firgurative Language | descriptive language in which one thing is associated with another, through the use of similie, metaphore, or personification |
| Free Verse | a type of poety that avoids the patterns of regualr rhyme or meter |
| Heroic Couplet | one of the most common forms of English poetry. it consists of 2 rhymed lines of iambic pentameter that together express a complete thought |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration for effect |
| Imagery | the use of words to create pictures |
| Irony | using a word or situation to mean the opposite of its usual or literal meaning, usually done in humor, sarcasm or disdain |
| Verbal Irony | when a character says one thing and means something else (Hamlet) |
| Dramatic Irony | when an audience percieves something that a character in the literature does not know (Oedipus Rex) |
| Situational Irony | involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite form what was intended, so the outcome is contrary to what was expected |
| Juxtaposition | the arrangement of 2 or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is equated with something else |
| Meter | repeated patterns of stressed and unstressed sullables in poetry |
| Motif | one of the key ideas or literary devices that supports the main theme of a literary work |
| Persona | the speaker in a work of poetry; narrator |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words which sound like what they describe |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speach that combines opposite qualities in a single term |
| Paradox | a statement that appears to be contradictory, but which reaveals a deeper (or higher) truth |
| Personification | attributing human qualities to inanimate objects, to animals, things, or ideas |
| Poetry | a type of literature that emphasizes metaphor and other figures of speech in lines that are arranged for emotional effect, usually according to meter |
| Point of View | the intellectual or emotional perspective held by a narrator or persona not to be confused with the author in connection with a story |
| First Person Participant | spoken by one of the speaker/persona of the poem |
| Third Person Omniscient | spoken not by a character, but by an impersonal persona who sees and know everything including characters' thoughts |
| Third Person Limited | spoken by the persona, but he/she focuses on the thinking and actions of a particular character |
| Pun | a humorous use of words that sound alike |
| Punctuation | the distinctive use of punctuation by diffrent authors |
| Satire | a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack |
| Setting | the locale, time, and context in which the action of a literary work takes place |
| Simile | a comparison of different things by speaking of them as "like" or "as" the same |
| Sonnet | a fourteen-line lyric poem in predominantly iambic pentameter, with a formal rhyme scheme |
| Symbolism | the use of words or objects to stand for or represent other things |
| Syntax | an author's distinctive form of sentence construction |
| Theme | an author's insight about life. it is the main idea or universal meaning, the lesson or message of a literary work. a theme may not always be explicit or easy to state, and different interpreters may disagree |
| Tone | the writer's or persona's attitude, mood or moral outlook toward the subject and/or readers |
| Understatement | a statement that says less than is really meant |
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