ENLIT12 - MODULE 2 QUIZ

emotional, has significance, beauty, imaginative, subtlety, spontaneity, universality

The Characteristics and Features of Poetry

Imaginative element

The function of poetry is to present images concretely. The words used must be rich in connotative value and carrying implications of sound, color, and action. The language of poetry is rich in the figure of speech.

Universality

The ideas and truths that it presents and the sentiments that it expresses are timeless, as well as, timely.

Form

This exists in poems on many levels from patterns of sound and image to structures of syntax and of thought; it is as much a matter of phrase and line as of stanza and the whole poem.

Subtlety

We deal with nuances or suggestiveness as well as figurative language, connotations and symbols.

Imagery

appeal to one or more of our senses and trigger our imaginative re-enactment of our sensory experience.

Poetry

can be defined as universal truth and thought or feeling transmuted by imagination into fitting images and expressed in beautiful and usually patterned language

Imagery

is a concrete representation of a sense impression, feeling, or idea.

Allegory

is a form of an extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions are equated with meanings that lie outside the work itself.

Tone

is an abstraction we make from the details of a poem's language: the use of the meter and rhyme or also lack of them.

symbolism

is any object or action that means more than itself, any object or action that represents something beyond itself.

Foot

is the conventional unit of poetic meter in English. It is a unit of measure consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Rhyme

is the matching of final vowel and consonant sounds in two or more words.

Meter

is the measure or patterned count of a poetic line. It is the count of the stresses we feel in the poem's rhythm.

Alliteration

is the repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Example: "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew/ The furrow fallowed free."

Consonance

is the repetition of inner or end consonant sounds.

Assonance

is the repetition of middle vowel sounds.

Poetry

is the supreme fiction. It shares the ancient fictional purpose to both inform and delight or entertain its readers. '

Universality

it is not a fad or a fashion that goes out of style.

Images

may be visual, aural, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory.

Rhythm

refers to the regular recurrence of the accent or stress at regular intervals in what has the effect of repeated patterns.

Imaginative element

"History has reference to the memory, poetry to the imagination, philosophy to the reason." - Francis Bacon

Beauty

"Poetry turns all things to loveliness; it exalts the ________ of that which is most beautiful, and it adds beauty to that which is most deformed." - Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry

Spontaneity

"That if poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all." - John Keats

Beauty

"it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance." - John Keats

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(t or f) A poem with an open form is strictly constrained.

t

(t or f) It is the voice that conveys the poem's tone, its implied attitude towards its subject.

t

(t or f) Sonnets, sestinas, and villanelles are recognized as such by their patterns of rhyme, meter, and repetition.

t

(t or f) When we read or hear a poem, we hear a speaker's voice and not necessarily the author's voice.

has significance

According to Matthew Arnold, poetry is a criticism of life.

Emotional element

According to William Wordsworth in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1801), poetry is the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings takes its origins from emotion recollected in tranquility."

Diction

Because poets often hint indirectly at more than their words directly state, it is necessary to develop the habit of considering the connotation of words as well as their denotations.

Subtlety

Caveat: However, Robert Frost warns that "poetry is what gets lost in translation."

Consonance

Example: "broads with warm breast"

Assonance

Example: fight, hive, pane, make

Imagery

Grounded in the concrete and specific, in details that stimulate our senses. For it is through our senses that we perceive the world. Includes details that trigger our memories or stimulate our feelings or command responses.

Theme

It is an abstraction or generalization drawn from the details of a literary selection.

syntax

It is an important element of its tone in a guide to a speaker's state of mind, again, the speaker and not the author's state of mind.

poetry

It is distinguished from other fictions by the heavy use of figures of speech and allusion and usually by the music of its patterns of sounds.

Diction

It is important to know what the words in a poem mean. It is equally important to understand what the words imply, suggest, or connote, because poets often heed indirectly at more than their words directly state.

Diction

It is necessary to develop the habit of considering the connotation of the words as well as the denotations of words or its denotative and connotative meaning.

Rhythm and Meter

It is the one feature that distinguishes poetry from prose.

Theme

It refers to an idea or intellectually apprehensible meaning inherent and implicit in a work.

Syntax

It refers to the grammatical structure of words in sentences and the deployment of sentences in loner units throughout the poem.

Figures of Speech

Language can be conveniently classified as either literal or figurative.

has significance

Learning to read poetry with comprehension is nothing less than a process of discovering an additional dimension in reality.

has significance

Poetry adds to our store of knowledge.

Beauty

Poetry deals with ______, both in content and form.

Emotional element

Poetry deals with emotions as they are aroused by some scene, experience, attachment

Spontaneity

Poetry should appear artless and effortless. It should look sound and fluid.

Subtlety

Poetry should never be obvious. The meaning is never directly stated. It is cryptice and enigmatic or mysterious.

syntax

Poets use ______ as they use imagery, diction, structure, sound and rhythm to express meaning and convey feeling.

rhythm

Pulse of poetry

Allegory

Represents one thing in the guise of another and obstruction in that of a concrete image. By a process of double signification, the order first represents actions and characters and they in turn represent ideas.