ENGL 2744 Chapter Notes - Chapter Ch. 10 pg. 297-327: Enjambment, Oxymoron, Consonant Cluster
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Poetry is memorable speech - wh auden: poetry is meant to be heard aloud in the human voice, poetry is meant to be remembered. Prosody: the study of meter and sound in poetry. Poetic foot: unit of measurement with one accented or stressed syllable and one or two unstressed syllables. English is rich in syllables but short on rhymes: shakespeare and others loosened the rhyme scheme of the sonnet in twentieth century the search for free verse began. Onomatopoetic language=words tend to sound like what they mean. Haiku: a form of poetry taken from the japanese, representing a moment of perception, in three lines with a pattern of five, seven, five syllables, for a total of seventeen syllables. Prefer the concrete over the abstract and the active over the passive. Dead metaphor: a metaphor so common that it has lost the original sense of comparison and acquired a further definition. Meaning in a poetic line is compressed.
