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| 7258497404 | Antithesis | A contrast or opposition, either rhetorical or philosophical. In rhetoric and disposition of words that serves to emphasize a contrast or opposition of ideas, usually by the balancing of connected clauses with parallel grammatical constructions. In Milton's Paradise lost 1667, the characteristics of Adam and Eve are contrasted by the (blank): 'for contemplation he and valor formed, for softness she and sweet attractive grace; he for God only, she for God in him' (blank) was cultivated especially by Pope and other 18th-century poets. It is also a familiar device in pros, as in John Ruskin sentence, 'government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition the laws of death.' In philosophy, and anti-thesis is a second argument or principal brought forward to oppose the first proposition or thesis | 0 | |
| 7258497405 | Apostrophe | A rhetorical figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an abstraction are inanimate object. In classical rhetoric, The term could also denote A speakers turning to address a particular member or section of the audience. Apostrophes are found frequently among the features of Shakespeare's characters, as when Elizabeth and Richard III Address of the tower of London: 'Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes whom envy hath immured within your walls.' The figure, usually employers for emotional emphasis, can become ridiculous when misapplied, as in Wordsworth's line, 'spade! With which Wilkinson tills his lands' the apostrophe is One of the conventions appropriate to the ode into the elegy. The poets invocation of the muse an epic poetry is a special form of apostrophe. | 1 | |
| 7258497406 | Art for art's sake | The slogan of Aestheticism in the 19th century, often given in its French form as I'art pour I'art. The most important early manifesto for the idea, Theophile Gautier's preface to his novel Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835), does not actually use the phrase itself, which is a simplified expression of the principal adopted by many reading French authors and by Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and Arthur Yimons in Englan | 2 | |
| 7258497407 | Ballad | A folk song or early transmitted poem telling any direct or dramatic manner some popular story usually derived from a tragic incident in local history or legend. The story is told simply, impersonally, and often with vivid dialogue. Ballads are normally composed in quatrains with alternating four-stress and three-stress lines, the second and fourth lines rhyming; but ballad's form and style: Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) is a celebrated example. The art of composing balance is called balladry, as in any large corpus of ballads. For a fuller account, consult G. Malcolm Laws, The English Literary Ballad 1972. | 3 | |
| 7259195770 | Bard | A poet who was awarded privileged status in ancient Celtic cultures, and who was charged with the duty of celebrating of the laws of heroic achievements of his people. In modern Welsh usage, A barred is a poet who has participated in the annual poetry festival known as the Eisteddfod. The nostalgic mythology of romanticism tended to imagine the bards as solitary visionaries and prophets. Since the 18th century, the term has often been applied more loosely to any poet, and as a fanciful title for Shakespeare in particular | 4 | |
| 7259195771 | Blank verse | Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, as in these final lines of Tennyson's Ulysses (1842): 'One equal temper of heroic hearts, made week by time and fate but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.' Blank verse is a very flexible English verse from which can attain rhetorical grandeur while echoing the natural rhythms of speech and allowing smooth enjambment. First used by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, it's soon became both the standard metre for dramatic poetry and a widely used form for narrative and meditative poems. Much of the finest verse in English by Shakespeare, Milton, words worth, Tennyson, and Stevens has been written in blank verse. In other languages, notable Italian and German, blank verse has been an important medium for poetic drama. Blank verse should not be confused with reverse, which has no regular metre. | 5 | |
| 7259195772 | Byronic | Belonging to or derived from Lord Byron (1788-1824) or his works. The Byronic hero is a character type found in his celebrated narrative poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812 to 1818), his verse drama Manfred (1817), and other work; he is a boldly defiant but bitterly sell tormenting outcast, proudly contemptuous of social norms but suffering for some unnamed then. Emily Bronte's Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1847) is a later example. | 6 | |
| 7259195773 | Carpe diem | A quotation from Horace's Odes meaning 'seize the day,' in other words 'make the best of the present moment.' A common theme or motif in European lyric poetry, in which the speaker of a poem are use that since life is short, pleasure should be enjoyed well there is still time. The most celebrated examples in English are Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' and Herrick's 'To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time', which begins 'gather ye rosebuds while ye may'. In some Christian poems and sermons, the Carpe Diem motif warns us to repair our souls for dead rather than our bodies for bed | 7 | |
| 7259195774 | Cavalier poets | A collective term applied by some literary historians to a group of English lyric poets and the Caroline period, And derived from the popular designation for supporters of King Charles in the Civil War. The principal figures in the group are Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, Robert Herrick, and Sir John Suckling. They are noted for their elegantly witty short lyric poems, and usually love poems. They were influence by Ben Johnson, and like him tended to avoid employing the sonnet form. | 8 | |
| 7259195775 | Iambic pentameter | This permit some variation in the placing of its five stresses; thus it may often begin with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable before resuming the regular iambic pattern. The eight syllable iambic tetrameters were also used in ancient Greek dramatic dialogue. The English iambic hexameter or six stress line is usually referred to as the Alexandrine. | 9 |
