Get Your English on!!!!!
Monday, February 18, 2008
"Fear makes us feel our humanity." - Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
- I know, I know. I've neglected that one thing in you that had the urge to understand weird poetry terms. ME TOO!!! So, just because I love the five of you (maybe there is another person reading this and just won't tell me) sooooooooo much, I came back just to offer this to you. More English!
- accent-The prominence or emphasis given to a syllable or word. In the word poetry, the accent (or stress) falls on the first syllable.
- alexandrine-A line of poetry that has 12 syllables. The name probably comes from a medieval romance about Alexander the Great that was written in 12-syllable lines.
- alliteration-The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words: “What would the world be, once bereft/Of wet and wildness?” (Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”)
- anapest-A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed), as in seventeen and to the moon. The anapest is the reverse of the dactyl.
- antithesis-A figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other. An example of antithesis is “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” (Alexander Pope)
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