ENGL 146 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Denotation, Freeverse Inc., Taste

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 146
• Professor: mclean-fiander

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Tentative final exam date: tuesday december 6, 2016 2:00 5:00 p. m. Every word counts in poetry look up a(cid:374)y (cid:449)ords you do(cid:374)"t completely understand. 10 study questions to ask and answer when analyzing a poem (coursespaces) What is poetry? (class exercise: everyone took a turn saying something related to poetry) Lines and stanzas (compared to sentences and paragraphs in prose: couplet (2 line stanza, tercet (3 line stanza, quatrain (4 line stanza, sestet (5 line stanza, octave (8 line stanza) Iambic pentameter (10 syllable line, alternates unstressed/stressed syllables) Sonnet (14 line poem: usually in iambic pentameter, shakespearean sonnet/english sonnet. Boiled down into the essence/meaning (think demi-glace) Repetition: alliteration (repetition of initial consonant sound, consonance (repetition of middle consonant sound, assonance (repetition of vowel sounds) Punctuation (pause at punctuation: end-stopped line (pause at the end of a line, punctuation is present, run-on line aka enjambment (no punctuation) Imagery: language of senses (visual, olfactory, auditory, tactile, gustatory)