ENGC36H3 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Natural Theology, Ethnocentrism, Panegyric
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Anaphora: repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of neighboring clauses. *consider the flow and movement of the poem, transition in tone, or imagery, contrast in imagery ex. between day and night (dark and light) Apostrophe: a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and was able to reply. Blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter (5 feet per line) feet= unstressed, stressed syllable. Caesura: a complete pause in a line of poetry (usually in the middle when it comes to neoclassical verse) Endstop: line of poetry ends with a period or a definite punctuation mark. Conceit: figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors. Conceit develops a comparison which is exceedingly unlikely but is, nonetheless, intellectually imaginative.
