by Lisa Lee 15 years ago
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Poetry terms
Lisa Lee
Poetry terms
Tetrameter
And DID those FEET in ANcient TIMEWALK upon ENgland's MOUNtains GREEN?And WAS the HOly LAMB of GODOn ENgland's PLEASant PAStures SEEN?
Ex) This is one poetry:
- a line with 4 stressed words
- four metrical feet
Tanka
The age of gold --Cranach's swaggering Venusdressed in carcanetand cestus, her splendorinvading the world's black edgeCarl Brennan
Ex) This is one tanka by Carl Brennan
1&3 line- 5 syllables 2,4 &5 line- 7 syllables
- It is a Japanese poem of 5 lines
Synecdoche
Ex) Give me a hand --> the hand does not mean a real hand on your body. It means 'help'
- Whole represents a part or part represents the whole
- It is a way you explain the whole by part
Trochee
Ex) soccer, hero, pencil, and open
- It is a metrical foot you use to show two syllables with one stressed and one unstressed.
