* Meter- the regular pattern of stressed (1) and unstressed (2) syllables in a poetic line * Foot- unit of rhythm Most common English feet Tamb ^/ Trochee /^ spandee // (Around) (Broken) (Airship) Dactyl /^^ anapest /^ (Argument) (Understand) * Number of feet per line Monometer 1 foot dimeter 2 feet timeter 3 feet Tetrameter 4 feet pentameter 5 feet * Stanzas- groups of poetic lines can be formally or informally organized and can run for many lines or just
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Assignment #1: Poetic Terminology 1. Alliteration- repetition of a particular sound or syllable two or more times in a group [EX: Elderly elephants egress elegantly] 2. Allusion- casual reference or implication of something [EX: Titles of books often allude to what the contents will hold‚ subtly or not. A book titled Little House on the Prairie implies that there will be a small house on a plain of grass.] 3. Analogy-two things that have something in common making them comparable [EX:
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Rhetorical Devices Style is part of classical rhetoric and a number of rhetorical devices are worth considering in any analysis of style. For the analysis of literature a knowledge of rhetorical devices is indispensable‚ since there is often a considerable density of rhetorical figures and tropes which are important generators and qualifiers of meaning and effect. This is particularly the case in poetry. Especially the analysis of the use of imagery is important for any kind of literary text. (For
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English Raymond Hickey Essen University 1 Introduction For several centuries English has been well known for its many cases of conversion‚ for instance it is used very frequently by Shakespeare‚ almost as a stylistic device of his. And to this day it has remained a prominent feature of the language. The standard definition of conversion (Bauer 1988: 90-2; Spencer 1991: 20) is a change in word-class without any alteration in form‚ i.e. zero-derivation (Cruse 1986:
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Rhetorical Devices Schemes Term Definition Example Alliteration頭韻 the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August. Anadiplosis反覆法 repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause The crime was common‚ common be the pain. Anaphora首語（句）重複法 regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses We shall fight in the trenches
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Terms & Definitions for Famous Speeches Repetition: Repeating a word or phrase‚ either to draw extra attention or to emphasise the importance of it. Analogy: A comparison of two things‚ based on the similarities between them; in this case‚ telling a story with a similar sort of message in order to make a related point clear. Rhetorical Questioning: Questions that the speaker might ask‚ but which do not actually require an answer. Rhetorical questions are used to make the audience think a little
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In ‘The poetics of Space’‚ Bachelard explores the psychology of human experience of intimate spaces and his perception of space as a blend of experience‚ physical structure‚ and senses. He further reflects on the poetic imagination and on understanding how poetic images are situated in the human psyche and generated by real life settings. In order to convey the powerful nature of such emotions he describes such concepts using a language that evokes ‘daydreaming and poetic images in the reader’s
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Addition | again also and and then besides | equally further(more) in addition (to...) indeed next | in fact moreover too what is more finally | Comparison | compared with in comparison with in the same way/manner | similarly likewise | again also | Contrast | besides but however in contrast instead conversely it may be the case that certainly also likewise | naturally nevertheless of course on the contrary on the other hand regardless
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The lives of 18th century women were not very well documented. In fact most historians would have laughed when asked for good historical material on those women. However‚ the Diary of Martha Maud Ballard gives us a detailed view of the time period in which those women lived‚ and how they played a part in it. Laurel Ulrich‚ a historian who painstakingly transcribed the diary‚ interpreted the lives of the people living around Martha Ballard‚ and Martha Ballard herself. Post-Revolutionary era frontier
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