ENGL 381 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Yusef Komunyakaa, Allen Ginsberg, Kamau Brathwaite
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Poems we"ve read: autumn begins in martin"s ferry, ohio by james wright, the author of american ornithology sketches a bard, now extinct by david. Short answer id terms: contemporary period. 1946-1950s: writing poetry after auschwitz is barbaric , free verse, organic from, fixed form, the speaker. What is the speakers attitude: register, sonic texture, assonance. Repetition of a vowel sound within a word: consonance. Similar consonant sounds within a word: alliteration. Same sound at the beginning of words: onomatopoeia. That sound like their meaning: anaphora, slant rhyme. Comparison without like or as: tenor and vehicle. Tenor: the subject to which attributes are borrowed. Vehicle: object whose attributes are being borrowed: syntax. O ering of the elements of a sentence: diction. Choice of vocab: tone, prose v. poetry, lineation, end-stopped line. Break occurs at the end of a syntactic unit. Occurs in the middle of the syntactic unit: confessionalism. Shed light on our own dark places: robert lowell.
