Across
- 4. five feet
- 6. a poet who tells stories, particularly epics; the primitive/ancient guardian of national identity
- 7. essentially, a piece of writing in which a colonized subject attempts to represent themselves/their people using their colonizer's own terms and language
- 8. a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses(e.g., John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts)'
- 10. unstressed unstressed stressed
- 11. transferring knowledge
- 13. in harmonious harmony; things that are not harmonious create harmony through their discord
- 18. a poem romanticizing agriculture and the working class
- 19. indescribable, intense beauty via scale
- 20. a story about a character, often the narrator/author, and their time in captivity
- 23. a letter in verse, addressed to a person in particular
- 25. end rhyming iambic pentameter
- 26. a celebratory lyric poem usually dedicated to a person, place, or event
- 27. a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
- 30. a break in the middle of a line that does not go to the next line
- 33. stressed unstressed
- 34. a poetic tribute to the dead, laments their death and often ends in some sort of positivity
- 35. unstressed stressed
- 37. 8 lines in iambic pentameter rhyming, with 9th alexandrine
- 39. four feet
- 40. six feet
- 41. the space in which two different peoples make contact and form a relationship, usually one sided and exploitative/oppressive in nature
Down
- 1. a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
- 2. a poem idealizing a shepherd's easy life of raising sheep, particularly by the elite
- 3. a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other
- 5. transferring political power
- 9. relating to or characteristic of poetry that expresses the writer's emotions, typically briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms
- 12. a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses(e.g., John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts)'
- 14. a word or pronounciation that distinguishes people from one group or class from those of another
- 15. idk
- 16. two feet
- 17. metered verse with no rhyming
- 21. three feet
- 22. trade of slaves to Americas, goods produced by those slaves back to Europe, manufactured goods made by those raw materials in America, back to Africa in exchange for more slaves sent to America
- 24. a large poem detailing mythical heroes shaping the world / universe; The grand poem of national foundation and imperial destiny Context/example: Aeneid; Rape of the Lock is a "mock epic"
- 28. a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting; a refusal of the sublime. Instead of a horizon opening onto vastness, infinity – an oppressive closure, excessive inwardness
- 29. alternating tetrameter and trimester?
- 31. referring to poets under augustus, but also to 18th century English poets who saw themselves as being part of a new augustan age ie the British empire = the roman empire under augustus
- 32. a method of conveying a character's internal thoughts by embedding them within the narration, rather than expressing them directly
- 36. stressed unstressed unstressed
- 38. a continuation to the next line without a pause at the end; a continuation of the syntactic unit across the line-break