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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!"*