Poetry for the People.
Discover some poetic and prosodic terms. In linguistics , prosody is the study of elements of speech , including intonation , stress , rhythm and loudness , that occur simultaneously with individual phonetic segments : vowels and consonants. Often, prosody specifically refers to such elements, known as suprasegmentals when they extend across more than one phonetic segment. Prosody reflects the nuanced emotional features of the speaker or of their utterances: their obvious or underlying emotional state , the form of utterance (statement, question, or command), the presence of irony or sarcasm , certain emphasis on words or morphemes, contrast, focus , and so on. Prosody displays elements of language that are not encoded by grammar , punctuation or choice of vocabulary . Research Tools for Literature Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945 Publication Date: Cambridge UP, 2013 Explores how American poetry has documented and helped propel the literary and cultural revolutio...
