Explain the Concept of Poetry and Their Types of Classification Flashcards

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Lyric Poetry

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Lyric Poetry	Usually brief and intense, that expresses a poet's subjective response to the world. The romantic poets, particularly Keats, often wrote lyrics about love, death, and nature.
Epic Poetry	A long narrative poem, such as the Illiad or the Aeneid, recounting the adventures of heroes on whose actions and fate of a nation or race depends. Frequently the gods or other supernatural beings take active interest in the events.
Closed form poetry	Type of poetic structure that has a recongnizable rhyme scheme, meter, or stanzaic pattern; also called fixed form.
Open form poetry	Form of poetry, that makes use of varying line lengths, abandoning stanzaic divisions, breaking lines in unexpected places, and even dispensing with any pretense of formal structure.
Denotation	Dictionary meaning of a word; its explicit, literal meaning.
Connotation	Meaning that a word suggest beyond its literal, dictionary meaning; its emotional associations, judgements, or opinions. Connotations can be positive, neutral, or negative.
Rhyme	Repetition of concluding sounds in different words, often intentionally used othe ends of poetic lines.
Rhythm	Regular recurrence of sounds in a poem
Meter	Regular stressed and unstressed syllables
Stress	Accent or emphasis, either strong or weak, given to each syllable in a piece of writing, as detrmined by conventional pronounciation and intended emphasis.
Persona	Narrator or speaker of a poem or story; in Greek tragedy, a persona was a mask worn by a character.
Tone	Attitude of the speaker or author of a work toward the subject itself or the audience, as determined by the word choice and arrangement or the piece.
Imagery	Words and phrases that describe the concrete experience of the five senses, most often sight.
Alliteration	Repetition of consonate sounds in a series of words
Allusion	Reference, often to literature, history, mythology, or the Bible, that is unacknowlaged in the text but that the author expects a reader to recognize.