From 7c6dd85cc6f7e88295012c5c6162c9ce4707e2ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: eggy Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:14:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] eng: polish terms after feedback --- docs/eng3uz.md | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/eng3uz.md b/docs/eng3uz.md index 3cc01da..cbe1132 100644 --- a/docs/eng3uz.md +++ b/docs/eng3uz.md @@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ The course code for this page is **ENG3UZ**. - Blank verse: An non-rhyming verse with a regular rhythmic structure, most commonly iambic pentameter (10 syllables/line, unstressed-to-stressed pattern) - e.g., *But, woe is me, you are so sick of late, / So far from cheer and from your former state.* (*Hamlet*, William Shakespeare) - Enjambment: A single thought in a line of poetry using two lines. - - e.g., *If I were a potato / The world would be a tomato.* - - Caesura: A pause, represented by two vertical lines ("||"), most commonly found in the middle of a line. Masculine caesurae follow stressed syllables while feminine caesurae follow ununstressed ones. They are also distinguished by their location in the line: Caesurae near the beginning, middle, or end of a line are referred to as initial, medial, and terminal caesurae, respectively. - - e.g., *You're stupid! || But so am I.* + - e.g., *The world / is a tomato.* + - Caesura: A pause in a poem used to emphasise a phrase. + - e.g., *I, am intellectual, make no speling errors whatsoever.* - Form: - Ballad: A poetic story set to music relying on simple language, commonly containing romance and tragedy. - Concrete poem: A poem written, arranged, or "drawn" in a way that its visual appearance is most important in conveying meaning. @@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ The course code for this page is **ENG3UZ**. - Genre: A work classified by its form, content, and style. Poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction are the four main genres of literature. - Line: A typically straight sequence of characters that ends at the last character before a newline. - Meter: The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a verse or poem. - - Stanza: A collection of four or more lines of poetry with with a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, similar to a paragraph in prose. + - Point of view: The perspective that a literary work is written from. First person usually focuses more on characters while third person perspectives focus more on plot. + - Stanza: A collection of four or more lines of poetry with with a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, similar to a paragraph in prose. However, it is not paragraph. - Sentence types: The use of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. - Sentence lengths: The number of characters or words present in a sentence. - Syntax: A set of rules in a language regarding the order of words. @@ -96,7 +97,7 @@ The course code for this page is **ENG3UZ**. - e.g., *She was beautiful.* - Allegory: The use of characters and events to describe an abstract idea to teach a moral lesson. - e.g., *Animal Farm* by George Orwell, which uses farm animals and their actions to describe the Russian Revolution. - - Ambiguity: A statement or phrase whose meaning is unclear. This can usually be resolved via context. + - Ambiguity: A statement or phrase whose meaning is unclear or can have multiple different meanings. This can usually be resolved via context. Strongly recommended to be used in poetry analysis. - e.g., *Nintendo sold 22 million of them.* - Colloquialism: The use of informal phrases or slang in writing. - e.g., *"Pog!"*