Poetry: Central Analytical Categories

What do phonological features focus on?

• sound-oriented figures (e.g.: rhyme scheme)

• Meaning-related figures (e.g.: metaphor)

• word-oriented figures (e.g.: anaphora)

• arrangement-figures (e.g.: parallelism)pttext

To which figures does an inversion belong?

• Morphological figures

• Syntactical figures

• Semantic figures

• Phonological figures

An example for a semantic feature is a metaphor?

• True

• False

What do morphological structures focus on?

• Arrangement-figures (e.g.: parallelism)

• Sound-oriented figures (e.g.: alliteration)

• Word-oriented figures (e.g.: anaphora)

• Meaning-oriented figures (e.g.: metaphors)

What´s an example of a syntactical figure?

• onomatopoeia

• euphemism

• rhetorical question

• ellipsis

The sentence “Don’t follow the herd” is a metonymy?

• True

• False

What´s the structure of an Italian Sonnet?

• 12 lines (1*octave, 2*couplets)

• 14 lines (3*quatrains, 1*couplet)

• 14 lines (2* quatrains, 2*tercets)

• 12 lines (3*quatrains)