Cronica De Una Muerte Anunciada

Spanish Poetic Terms
By Robert Gleaves Aliteración: Alliteration, repetition of a consonant in a series, either at the beginning of a word or of a stressed syllable. Example: “¿O cuál es más deculpar, / aunque cualquiera mal haga, / la que peca por la paga / o el que paga por pecar?” (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz). Anáfora: Anaphora, repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successiveclauses or sentences. Example: “Que por mayo era, por mayo, / cuando hace la calor, / cuando los trigos encañan / y están los campos en flor” (“Romance del prisionero”). Apóstrofe: Apostrophe, figure ofspeech in which the poet speaks directly to someone or something with vehemence. Example: “¡Oh excelso muro, oh torres coronadas / de honor, de majestad, de gallardía! (Luis de Góngora, “A Córdoba”).Asonancia: Assonance, repetition of a vowel in a series of words. Example: “Llora monótona / como llora el agua, / como llora el viento / sobre la nevada” (Federico García Lorca). Carpe diem (Latin,seize the day), Medieval motif or topos meaning ‘make the best of the present moment’. A common theme in European lyric poetry, in which the speaker of a poem argues (often to a hesitant virgin) thatsince life is short, pleasure should be enjoyed while there is still time. Example: Robert Herrick's line “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.” Consonancia: Consonance, repetition of a consonantal soundwithin a line or series of lines. Example: “Suspiros de luz musical” (Salvador Díaz Mirón). Enlace: Act of linking a word ending with a vowel with a word which begins with a vowel, thus forming onesyllable, even if the linked vowels are both strong (a, e, o). Example: “como llora el agua” = co-mo-llo-rae-la-gua. Estrofa: Stanza of a poem. Falacia patética: Pathetic fallacy, a form ofpersonification by which the poet attributes human emotions or characteristics to inanimate objects or to nature. Examples: angry clouds, a cruel wind. Hipérbole: Hyperbole, use of exaggeration or overstatement...