ENGL102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Enjambment, Narrative Poetry, Caesura
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Prosody - rhythm and sound used in poetry. Interplay between meter and realized accents (variations in pitch) Relation between syntax (the arrangement of words to form a full sentence) and verse (arranged with a metrical rhythm) Enjambment - continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of the line. Caesura - a break or pause in the middle of the line. End stopped lines - natural stops at the end of the line. Run on - without commas or prepositions, sentence is out of breath. Rhetorical figures, used to persuade or impress (e. g. parallelism, anaphora - repetition of word or phrase to make a point) Deviation - does it support or head away from its expectations, is there altered attitude or. Anaphora - repetition of a word at the beginning of a phrase. (we shall not flag or fail; we shall go on to the end . ) Ballad - narrative poem that is meant to be sung.