A comprehensive guide to poetry for ENG 110. Includes explanations and examples of all literary devices. Includes the first portion of lecture notes up to the start of Macbeth lectures in Semester 1
GUIDE TO POETRY
→ copyright Lucca Rautenbach
GENRES
BALLADS
SONNETS
ITALIAN OR PETRARCHAN SONNET
ENGLISH OR SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET
SPENSERIAN
LYRICS
Meaning and Function
CARPE DIEM
ELEGIES
PASTORALS
METAPHYSICAL POETRY
Features of Metaphysical Poetry
TIME PERIODS
MEDIEVAL POETRY
RENAISSANCE POETRY
ELIZEBETHAN
METAPHYSICAL
STRUCTURE
STANZA’S AND LINES
TYPES OF STANZA’S
COUPLET
TERCET
QUATRAIN/ CINQUAIN
QUINTAIN
SESTET
SEPTET
OCTAVE
METRE & RHYTHM
METRICAL FOOT
RHYTHM
TYPES
1. Iamb (x /)
2. Trochee (/ x)
3. Spondee (/ /)
4. Dactyl (/ x x)
5. Anapest (x x /)
, PERIOD (.)
QUESTION MARK (?)
EXCLAMATION POINT/MARK (!)
COMMA (,)
SEMICOLON (;)
COLON (:)
DASH (– /-)
HYPHEN (-)
PARENTHESES ( () )
APOSTROPHE (')
QUOTATIONS MARKS ( “ ” )
ELLIPSES (...)
LITERARY DEVICES
IMAGERY
Types of Poetic Imagery
COMPARISON
METAPHOR
EXTENDED METAPHOR
IMPLIED METAPHOR
SIMILE
ANALOGY
ALLEGORY
EPITHET
TRANSFERRED EPITHET
PERSONIFICATION
ANTHROPOMORPHISM
APOSTROPHE
ALLUSION
SYNECDOCHE
METONYMY
ONOMATOPOEIA
SYNESTHESIA
PARALLELISM
JUXTAPOSITION
ANTITHESIS
OXYMORON
PARADOX
LITOTES
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (T.S. Eliot)
OVERSTATEMENT
HYPERBOLE
UNDERSTATEMENT
GUIDE TO POETRY 3
, EUPHEMISM
DYSPHEMISM
INNUENDO
MEIOSIS
RHETORICAL QUESETION
Romeo and Juliet (By William Shakespeare)
The Merchant of Venice (By William Shakespeare)
HYPOPHORA
GENRES
BALLADS
→ medieval
a form of narrative verse that is considered either poetic or musical
were originally sung or recited as an oral tradition among rural societies, and
were often anonymous retellings of local legends and stories by wandering
minstrels in the Middle Ages
Ballads were sung by minstrels
Common subject matter of ballads
tragic romance
reimagination of legends
religion
life and death
historical events
the supernatural
happy love stories
GUIDE TO POETRY 4
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