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Monday, April 25, 2011

Mona Van Duyn reading "Sonnet for Minimalists."

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Tanka poetry

Definition: "A Japanese poem consisting of five lines, the first and third of which have five syllables and the other seven, making 31 syllables in all and giving a complete picture of an event or mood."

-New Oxford American Dictionary

Haiku poetry

Definition: " A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world."

-New Oxford American Dictionary

Literary Devices

allusion: a casual implication
anaphora:repetition at the beginning of two or more verses
caesura: a strong pause in a line/verse
enjambment: run on line
envoi: concluding remarks
euphemism: substituting a vague expresssion for an offensive one
figurative language: non literally
metonymy: a figure of speech that uses the name of an object that it relates to
trope: a phrase used to embellish

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Monday, April 25, 2011

Mona Van Duyn reading "Sonnet for Minimalists."

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