Cultural and Theoretical Terms

1. ethnicity

2. aesthetic

3. poetry (translate list of definitions)

4. race

5. New Criticism (translate definitions and add links)

6. Psychoanalytical Criticism

7. Biographical Criticism

8. New Historicism

9. Feminist Criticism

10. Modernism

11. Post-modernism

12. Romanticism

13. Renaissance (Early Modern)

14. Gentility

15. Victorian

16. Old English Poetry

17. Middle English Poetry

18. Border(s)

19. Mestizo

20. Orality

Poetic Terms

A. Genres

1. Spenserian Stanza

2. Blank Verse

3. Couplets

4. Quatrain

5. Rime Royal (or Rhyme Royal)

6. Ottava Rima

7. Terza Rima

8. Italian Sonnet

9. English Sonnet

10. Hybrid Sonnet

11. Villanelle

12. Sestina

13. Pantoum

14. Ballad

15. Blues

16. Hymnal Stanzas (Common Measure)

17. Sapphic

18. Corrido

19. Ballads

20. Hymnal Stanzas

21. Free verse

22. Prose Poetry

23. Elegy

24. Hebraics

25. Religious Sonnets

26. Pilgrimage Poetry

27. Odes

28. Decadas

29. Oral Genres

B. Meter & Sound

1. mimetic rhythm (translate and put in links to rhythm and meaning)

2. affective rhythm

3. associative rhythm

4. connective and emphatic rhythm

5. cohesive and patterned rhythm

6. Shakespeare's Pronunciation

C. Figurative Language

D. Structure

1. stanza

2. stanzaic unity

3. stanzaic mobility

4. stanzaic progression