Message, Method, Medium: Theories of Interpretation

Literary Terms

From BABL Reading Poetry
Poetic Diction and Elevated Style
"Plain" Language in Poetry

Imagery, Symbolism and Figures of Speech
It is never just imagery or symbolism. Be specific. Show why it matters.

Imagism

Figures of Speech
Figurative language
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Apostrophe
Metonymy
Synecdoche

Performance Poetry

Tone: The Speaker's Attitude
Ironic Tone

Poetic Forms
Fixed Forms
sonnet: Italian vs English
ghazal
pantoum
villanelle

Parts
Tercet
quatrain
septet
octave

Stanzaic Forms
Ballad Stanza
Rhymic Couplet
Terza rima
ottava rima
rhyme oryal
Spenserian Stanza

Free Verse

Prose Poetry

Poem as Material Object

Rhythm and Scansion
Quantitative, Syllabic, Accentual-Syllabic Verse

Identifying Poetic Meter
Stressed vs unstressed
imabic
trochaic
anapaestic
dactylic
spondaic

monometer
dimeter
trimeter
tetrameter
pentameter
hexameter

Rhyme, Consonance, Assonance and Alliteration
Near Ryhmes
Eye Rhymes

Consonance and Assonance
Alliteration






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