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• ILA + LT - A7

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• How can poetry be defined in one sentence?

  Poetry emerges from the interplay between the meaning of words and their arrangement on paper.

• What is a figure of speech?

  The use of language which deviates from the obvious or common usage in order to achieve a special meaning or effect.

• What is a simile?

  A figure of speech in which a comparison between two distinctly different things is indicated by the word 'like'  or 'as' He's like a bull in a china shop

• Out of which three elements do similes and methapors consist?

  - The tenor --> the subject under discussion (he)

  - The vehicle --> What the subject is compared to (a bull in a china shop)

  - The ground --> What the poet believe they have in common (clumsiness) 

• What is a metaphor?

  An implied comparison which creates a total identification between the two things  being compared. The words 'like' and 'as' are NOT used

• What is the primary function of a personification?

  To make abstract ideas clearer to the reader. By attributing feelings and emotions to ideas, people tend to understand them more easily

• Why isn't literature static?

  Writers, genres and styles have fallen in and out of favour throughout history. 

• A symbol is open-ended. What does that mean?

  A given symbol will evoke different responses in different readers

• What sort of symbols are there?

  1. cultural/shared symbols (white for innocence, heart for love, etc.)

  2. Literary or personal symbols (gestures, landscapes that may refer to the characters emotional state)

• Which types of rhymes are there?

  1. Masculine rhyme - Only one syllable rhymes (say/day light/night)

  2. Feminine rhyme - Two syllable match (ocean/motion pretending/bending)

  3. Triple-syllable rhyme - three match (beautiful/dutiful comparison/garrison)

  4. Perfect rhyme - The whole word rhymes (double/trouble)

  5. Imperfect rhyme - The words sound similar but are not (road/boat loads/lids/lads)

  6. End rhymes vs. internal rhymes (end of sentence vs. in sentence)