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Flashcards by Lisza Neumeier, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lisza Neumeier
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Poetry focus? | -focus on language and form -musicality, rhythm and rhyme (eg. song lyrics!!) -performance aspect (can be performed) -Image, thought, idea, experience, emotions -Empathy (lyrical I of the poem often wants you to side with him/her in an emotionally) more liberal language use (reduced syntax, half sentences, ..) -relatively short (some are not, but most are short) -poetic language is not restricted (we know it from song lyrics, ads, slogans, …) does not have to be difficult |
| Emily Dickinson: A word is dead | |
| The language of poetry What's Prosody | Prosody: study of rhythmic and acoustic elements that contribute to a total sound effect In linguistics: used a bit differently In C&L studies: language of poetry is not a totally diviant language (not like we have normale English and poetry has poetic English) |
| assonance? consonance? | ?? |
| Repetition | New look, new formula, new fragrance, all new reduced syntax repetition |
| Versification: rhythm, metre and rhyme What? What do they create? | -suprasegmental sound patterns -all those are things that create the musicality effect of poetry - |
| 10 syllables | pentametre |
| unstressed - stressed syllable | iamb |
| Imagery: figurative and metaphorical language use eg. You are a treasure (German) | carrying meaning of something else! eg. treasure: a lot of value to characterization of another humans’ value -often we don’t think about it a lot and we understand it as conventionalized (it’s normal) -less conventionalized: eg. with my students are sponges (conventionalized) vs. my students are vacuum cleaners |
| nonsense poetry rule | it should always rhyme sound effect are not so dominant; mostly the words are; but in ,,the hunting of a snark'': Dominance of sound effects |
| stressed - unstressed syllable | Trochee |
| Focus on poetic form: the sonnet origins? form? | -origins in Italy Two forms: 1.) Italian/Petrarchan sonnet 2.) English/Shakespearian sonnet Form: octave and sestet (8+6 lines of verse)--> 14 lines |
| Shakespearian Sonnet Rhyme schema | ababcdcd efefgg (break intention: soon there’ll be an ending, but not yet over) Iambic pentameter |
| Focus on prose form: the short story history of the short story? | -collection: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1386-1389) -Edgar Allan Poe: not only did he write short stories, but also commented on them (one of the first theoretition: he defines short story: story that you can read in one sitting; single effect: more focused on one thing, contributes to one event, effect, ...) -published in collections or magazines -start in medias in res -situations, not characters -compression/condensation: a lot of thought goes into a few words (you have to fill in quite a lot of things, you have to imagine quite a lot in additions) |
| short stories: Epiphany | reference to a moment in short stories where characters realize sth insightful that might change their image, worldview, life → often in short stories |
| A nanostory | -subcategory of shortstory -extremely condensed story, almost like a summary but it isn’t -Minimalistic story, not even 100 words -literary forms adapt to modern technologies: nanostories became extremely widespread, when email developed -very minimalistic but basic ingredients of short story are there |
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