21ST FINALS

• Melancholic


  Loneliness or emptiness
• Satiric tone


  Dislike or discontent
• Exult


  Great happiness
• Overarching


  Including or influencing
• Ecstatic


  delight
• Poetry


  most compact form of literature
• A poem has:


  tone, form, and figurative language
• Three Types of Poem:

  Narrative Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Dramatic Poetry
• Narrative Poetry


  tells a story/oral traditions
• Lyric Poetry


  supposedly sung/persona's feelings and emotions
• Dramatic Poetry


  performed on stage/sung or spoken
• Elements of Poetry


  Persona, Form, Imagery, Sound Patterns, Rhyme, Figurative language, and Theme
• Persona


  speaker in the poem/not always the poet
• Form


  written in lines/stanzas
• Imagery


  language that appeals to the five senses
• Sound patterns


  literary devices that pertain to sounds
• Onomatopoeia


  imitate the sound
• Alliteration


  initial sounds
• Assonance


  vowel sounds
• Rhyme


  similar or identical sounds
• Rhyme scheme


  pattern of the rhyme
• Rhythm


  foot and meter
• Foot


  stressed or unstressed syllables
• Meter


  measurement of syllables
• Figurative language


  picture ordinary things in new ways
• Theme 


  central idea/philosophical truth in life
• Trochaic

  1 stressed and 1 unstressed
• Iambic


  1 unstressed and 1 stressed
• Anapestic


  2 unstressed and 1 stressed
• Dactylic


  1 stressed and 2 unstressed
• Spondaic


  all have equal stress