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* Who said: “ Any last advice? ” “ Stay alive. ”
* Narrative poem - a poem whose main purpose is to tell a story. * Usually tries to reveals something about the past or why a character acts or speaks the way he/she does.
* a short poem, often songlike, with the emphasis not on narrative but on the speaker's emotion or reverie. Whereas a narrative is set in the past, telling what happened, a lyric is set in the present, catching a speaker in a moment of expression. (A lyric can, of course, glance forward or backward.) * Can cover a wide range of emotion- ranging from complex thought to funny wonderment.
* written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is often unobtrusive and the iambic pentameter form often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech. William Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse. * Has a pattern but not a rhyme
* composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern. The early 20th-century poets were the first to write what they called "free verse" which allowed them to break from the formula and rigidity of traditional poetry. * Has no pattern and doesn’t need to rhyme
* Who said it? “ The cafeteria is called the Nutrition Center, people wear their letter jackets even when it's 98 degrees out. And why do they give out letter jackets to marching band? It's not a sport. We all know it.”
* Diction - choice of words and/or grammatical constructions (i.e., formal, colloquial, jargon, slang, etc.) * How they’re saying what they’re saying * Specific word choice can tell you about the time period, socioeconomic status, or regional setting of the author/poem.
* the attitude of the author, evident from the diction, use of symbolism, irony, and figures of speech. (Tone can be described as playful, sad, happy, humorous, etc.). * How they’re feeling about what they are saying. * Usually adds to the theme of the poem. If you can determine the tone of the poem you’re a lot closer to figuring out why the author is wrote the poem
* a pattern of stressed (accented) sounds in English poetry (meter from the Greek word for "measure"). * I’m almost positive that you will never need to know the stressed and unstressed syllables in a word * BUT… Big but… meter gives words motion/movement
* Stanza - a rhythmical unit in which lines of poetry are commonly arranged (from an Italian word meaning "room" or "stopping-place"). * Verse - can be either a stanza or a single line of poetry. * (Note: in discussing stanzas, rhymes are indicated by identical letters. Thus, abab indicates that the first and third lines rhyme with each other, while the second and fourth lines are linked by a different rhyme.)
* a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus. * When looking at the stanza, verse, and refrain, just know what these are and how to refer to them accordingly.
* Who said it? * “ The three keys of coolness in high school, by Jenko. One, don't try hard at anything. Okay? Two, make fun of people who do try. Three, be handsome. Four, if anyone steps to you on the first day of school, you punch them directly in the face. ”
* Metaphor * Simile * Symbolism * Juxtaposition * Theme * Foreshadowing
* sometimes defined as the repetition of initial sounds ("All the awful auguries," or "Bring me my bow of burning gold"), and sometimes as the prominent repetition of a consonant ("after life's fitful fever"). * Used to draw attention to a certain phrase or group of words
* Internal rhyme- rhyme occurs within lines. ("Each narrow cell in which we dwell.") * End Rhyme- the rhyming words occur at the ends of the lines * Slant Rhyme- only the final consonant sounds of the words are identical; the stressed vowel sounds as well as the initial consonant sounds, if any, differ (soul/oil, mirth/forth, trolley/bully.
* giving human qualities to abstractions or inanimate objects such as love, beauty, etc. ("The cat, disappointed, wondered where I'd been all day." ; "When love calls, wild hearts fly.")