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• epigrams


  short, witty prose statements
• Sibyls


  (ancient greece) was the Delphic Oracle
• Delphic maxims


  inscribed on the temple were much clearer
• Delphic maxims


  • know thyself
  • Nothing to excess
• symbolists


  literary movement that flourished in late nineteenth century France
• Patriarchy


  rule of the father
• apostrophizes


  figure of speech in which the speaker emotionally addresses someone who is dead/absent
• nostalgia


  longing or pain for home
• feminism


  defend womens equality to men in all aspects
• Waves of feminism


  • first wave => 1792-1925, emphasized women’s legal/financial equality. Focused on the rights of white, middle and upper class women. Goals were women's suffrage (right to vote) and property rights
  • second wave = > 1950-1985, emphasized women’s economic equality (right to work, equal pay for equal work) freedom from unpaid domestic work, sexual liberation and reproductive rights
• extended metaphor


  is used in a sustained way throughout the poem
• alliteration


  repetition of initial consonants
• assonance


  reptition of vowel sounds
• consonance


  repetition of constant sounds in the middle or ends of words
• prose poem


  fusion of poetry and prose which uses sentences as prose does
• Literary works


  • The Picture of Dorian Grey
  • Diving into the Wreck
  • A Room with a View
  • Funeral Blues
  • A Midsummer Nights Dream
  • Lady Lazarus
  • A supermarket in California
  • Mid-Term Break
  • Dark Pines Under Water
  • The Cinnamon Peeler
  • Not Just a platform for my Dance
  • Turn Around Women
• Sound


  • Rhyme
  • Alliteration (the repetition of sounds, especially consonant sounds in a series of words)
  • Assonance (the repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds in a series of words)
• Structure


  • Number of lines
  • Number of syllables in each line
  • Rhyming of certain words and phrases with others
• Lineated


  Broken into lines which shape the poem's rhythm, sound, visual presentation
• Stanzas


  Clusters set off from other clusters by a blank line that creates a visual break
• Anathema


  Detested or cursed
• Explicate


  Unfold a thing gently and study it closely while leaving it intact
• Image


  A visual, "picture" created with words
• Imagery


  Identifying images in a story
• Symbol


  Stands for and suggests something larger or more complex
• Elegies


  Serious poems, often lamentations
• Riddles


  Language puzzles demanding decoding by the listener
• Persona


  Main character speaking in poem, not the author
• Sonnet


  Italian poetic form having 14 lines, following one of several conventional rhyme schemes
• Iambic Pentameter


  Each line is made of 5 feet in which the 1st syllable is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed
• Carpe Diem


  Latin for "Seize the day"
• Lyric Poetry


  Originally any poem designed to be sung
• Pastoral


  A literary mode associated with shepherds and country living
• Enlightenment


  Philosophical and artistic movement in Europe and America which critically examined traditional ideas and institutions, privileged reason and championed progress
• Romanticism


  Characterized by a reaction against enlightenment rationalism and an emphasis on emotion, innovation, nature, the individual and subjective experience
• Diction


  General character, type of language, word choice used in literature
• Platonic truth


  A higher or purer version of truth
• Orientalist


  False images/myths about the eastern or oriental world which have been constructed in western discourse including imaginative literature
• Ballad


  A poem that recounts a story, a form of song
• Meter


  A more or less regular rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse