In-class Notes

6/8/07

Vocabulary:
-Prosody-poetic language and structure
-Conceit-
-Tempest-
-Denotation-The literal meaning of words
-Connotations-The emotional meaning of words.
-Extended Metaphor-A metaphor of more than a line or two.
-Symbol- A Representative of something else.
-Allusion-References to people and events outside of ones work.
-Personification-Giving of human characteristics and personality to an inanimate being or even an idea.
-Paradox-When two contradictory ideas are considered equally believable.
-Understatement-The deliberate and extreme diminishing of a response of idea.
-Hyperbole-exaggerating what is being said.
-Scan-to mark the metrical beat of.
-Accent/Stress-mark over a word of syllable indicating where the emphasis would go.
-Meter-rhythm of a poem.
-Caesuras-punctuation breaks.
-Free Verse- a poem with no regular rhythm of rhyme pattern.
-Iamb-an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
-Iambic Pentameter- 10 syllable lines composed of 5 iambs.
-Blank Verse-Unrhymed iambic pentameter lines.
-Iambic Tetrameter-4 iambs per line
-Iambic Trimeter- 3 iambs per line
-Ballad Stanza-alternates lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
-Trochee-a stressed followed by an unstressed mark.
-Dactyl-an unstressed followed by a stressed mark.
-Rhyme Schemes-shorthand for talking about the rhyme patterns.
-Couplet-The final two rhyming lines
-Internal Rhyme-a rhyme occurs within a line itself.
-Eye Rhyme-Looks like it rhymes, but it does not.
-Slant Rhyme/Near Rhyme- words that almost rhyme.
-Alliteration-repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words.
-Assonance-the repetition of vowel sounds.
-Stanza-sections of a poem.
-Sonnet-14 lined poem in iambic pentameter with a particular repeating rhyme scheme.
-Quatrains-groups of 4 lines.
-Italian/Petrarchan sonnet-contains an octave and a sestet.
-Octave-a unit of eight lines with a repeating rhyme scheme.
-Sestet-a unit of six lines with a repeating rhyme scheme.
-Ballads-an alternation of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
-Dramatic Monologue-a poem meant to be read as the words of someone thinking aloud.
-Lyric-verse song.

*To His Coy Mister = seize the gay!
-Carpe Diem-Seize the day, play on words
-the relationship between two men.
-closet: hiding his sexuality

*To His Coy Mistress
-"If we had but world enough and time" 1st line
*Prosody

*Conceit
-Shakespeare is making fun of something that other poets do.
-Tempest

*Disillusionment at 10:00
-Duplicated-wrote paper on it.
*procrastination because she doesn't understand it and does not know what to write on it.
-Poetry is not always clear, it means something different to everyone.
*don't be afraid to make your own interpretations.
*Make your own opinions and mold them to others.
*all answers are wrong, can comment on them though.
-an artist is someone who has an imagination

*pg. 85-102
-Paying attention and asking questions
-Figurative language
*Metaphors do not use the word like.
*Similes use the describing word like
-Every poem is a form of music
*No longer a colorless word
*Keep ones attention (story of 2 sisters)
-Elaborate!!!