ENGL 203 Study Guide - Final Guide: William Carlos Williams, W. B. Yeats, Alliteration
12 Dec 2016
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Final exam review: poetry section: types of poetry: ch. What are the two main types or categories of poetry: narrative poems, lyric poems. What do narrative poems stress: story and action. What do lyric poems stress: emotion and song. What are some of the subdivisions or subtypes of narrative poetry: epic, romance, ballad. What are some of the subdivisions or subtypes of lyric poetry: elegy, epigraph. Italian (petrarchan) sonnet 8-line octet and 6-line sestet. English (shakespearean) sonnet 3 4-line quatrains and a concluding 2-line couplet. Couplet 2 lines; pair of rhymed lines in meter: elements of poetry: ch. The speaker"s voice in a poem that implies a certain attitude toward the subject is called tone. The speaker"s diction (word choice) in poetry conveys meaning, and meaning derives from denotation and connotation. Define the following terms: denotation dictionary meaning, connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes; associations, both personal and public.
