Figures of Repetition, Figures of Meaning, Figures of Suppression, Figures of Order

Figures of Repetition

Alliteration

Repetition of one or more phonemes in a verse, can to imitate a sound.

Anaphora

Repetition of a word at the beginning of each line or phrase.

Parallel

Repeat syntactic structures.

Pleonasm

Unnecessary words for your understanding, expressiveness provide consequence.

Polysyndeton

Continuous repetition of conjunctions.

Figure of Meaning

Allegory

Changes the overall meaning to express a different idea using the continuous process of metaphor.

Antithesis

Opposite words or sentences with meanings opposites.

Apostrophe

Use an exclamation.

Hyperbole

Exaggeration of reality.

Metaphor

This is the identification of a real term with an imaginary one between which there is some similarity.

Metonymy

Of designating something else’s name can consequence the which keeps an account of the meaning.

Personification

Attributed to an irrational or inanimate qualities of humans.

Simile or Comparison

Purpose is to compare by means of a link or realities.

Synesthesia

Feelings is to unite different meanings.

Figure Suppression

Asyndeton

Removal of links in a consequence line to acquire the expression which vividness.

Ellipsis

Is deleting one or more which words in the sentences are pretty obvious the context.

Figure of Order

Hyperbaton

Alternating the logical order of the sentence.

Chiasmus

Equivalent of placing cross-presenting two members reverse order.

Main Stanzas

2 Verses

Couplet

(2 verses, art major or minor, AA, aa, Aa, aA)

3 Verses

Trio

(3 verses, heroic verse, rhyme, AA)

Soleá

(3 verses, eight syllable, rhyme assonance, aa)

4 Verses

Quartet

(4 verses, hendecasyllables, rhyme consonance, ABBA)

Serventesio

(4 verses Alexandrian or hendecasyllables, rhyme consonance, ABAB)

Redondilla

(4 verses, eight syllable, rhyme consonance, abba)

Quartet

(octosyllables, rhyme consonance, abab)

Cuaderna Pathway

(Alexandrian rhyme consonance, YYYY)

Copla

(minor art rhyme assonance, -aa)

Seguidilla

(seven syllables and five syllables, rhyme assonance, 7-5A 7-5A)

5 Verses

Lira

(heptasyllables and heroic verse, rhyme consonance, 7a 11B 7a 7b 11B)

Quintet

(hendecasyllables, rhyme consonance not rhyme three straight, the last two do not form any which couplet and not loose)

Quintanilla

(octosyllable, meets the same conditions the quintet which)

6 Verses

Copla Broken Foot

(eight-syllable, rhyme consonance, 8a 8b 4c 8a 8b 4c)

8 Verses

Eighth Real

(high art, rhyme consonance, ABABABCC)

Eighth Italian

(art major, rhyme consonance, ABBCDEEC)

10 Verses

Tenth

(octosyllable, rhyme consonance, abbaaccddc)

Strophic Poems

Sonnet

(14 verses, hendecasyllables, rhyme consonance, ABBA ABBA CDC DCD)

Christmas Carol

(No undetermined octosyllabic and six syllable, rhyme assonance, structure chorus and verse)

Poem Stanzas

Romance

(No undetermined octasilabos verses, rhyme assonance in pairs)

Epic Series

(no. undetermined verses 14 and 16 syllables with monorrima assonance)

Silva

(alternating seven-syllable verses freely and hendecasyllables, any loose rhyme consonance)

Stay

(No undetermined of seven-syllable verse and heroic verse, rhyme consonance)

Historical Events

In recent times of the Roman empire settled in Spain Germanic peoples. The civil wars led to the entry of some Muslims in Peninsula. The Islamic domination lasted 8 centuries. In this long coexisted in Peninsula Christian kingdoms to the north and south Muslims Al-Andalus. The medieval Spain had a remarkable ethnic and cultural diversity, and the Hispanic and Muslims which joined by other social minorities:

  • Jews, was the group more influential, cultured and enlightened minority which was devoted to intellectual tasks and control the financial world.
  • Mozarabic, Christians were living in territory Muslim which conserve your religion.
  • Muladíes, was called and the Christian population converted to Islam which lived in Muslim territory.
  • Mudéjares, were the Muslims living among Christians without changing their religion in exchange for paying a tribute.

Thought and Society

The activity of monks, focusing on God and the destiny of man, influenced the design theocentric which medieval conception world social organization found in a Trinitarian structure divided into: bellatores (the which Luxan) Speakers (the which pray) Labrador (the which work). The social organization typical of the Middle Ages, the society was organized in feudalism. The nobility, clergy and ordinary people.

Culture

Peninsular medieval culture that participated theocentricity of the existence and spread through different channels:

  • The Camino de Santiago (which united Europe with Santiago de Compostela to visit the Apostle remains)
  • The Toledo School of Translators (it was the cultural focus; Muslims, Jews and Christians collaborated translating from Arabic into Latin and Castilian)
  • Universities (which institutions enjoyed privileges issued and signed by the Pope and whose titles were valid throughout Europe)
  • Birth of the Romance languages (Latin was preserved as the language of culture but developed into languages romances. Surgeries Castilian, Catalan, Galician-Portuguese, Asturian-Leonese, Navarro-Aragonese and Mozarabic)

Origins of Lyric

The Lyric Mozarabic

Mozarabic was the language of Christians living in territory Muslim. Written which in this language are preserved jarchas are short compositions which are inserted at the end of poems known as Arabic or Hebrew cults moaxajas These compositions represent a sample of the relations of coexistence and mutual influence among Christians and Muslims. The issue is generally loving and being put into the mouth of a woman which laments the absence of his beloved.

Lyric Galician-Portuguese

Often has a structure which parallelistic repeats the same verse throughout the poem, usually profane content and are the ballads, are distinguished 3 types: Cantigas de Amor (sung by a man, they develop the theme of courtly love) Cantigas de Amigo (put into the mouth of a woman which is the absence of his beloved) mocking songs (deride vices, defects or people). Within the religious Galician-Portuguese lyric is the work of Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria develops the miracles of the Virgin by considered as a protector of mankind.

Lyric Castilian

Texts preserved primitive Castilian lyric reached through May cancioneros. It can collected, derived from the pagan holiday floral; sailing songs: songs and Albada rustic, but what more are representative: “The carols are strophic poems composed by a chorus and a verse or theme glosa. Generally love, expressed with great lyricism – Serranillas, derived from the Christmas Provencal although these more realistic. The descriptive features present compositions are a means to meet a gentleman with a shepherd in the mountains of Castile, the knight requires the love of the shepherdess.