What's the difference between poetic and prosody?

Poetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Poetical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He knew his subject personally, having worked with him on the 1993 romantic drama Poetic Justice , in which the rapper starred opposite Janet Jackson.
  • (2) This creativity frequently emerges from an aesthetic, poetic sense of freedom derived from work, an uninhibited playful activity of exploring a medium for its own sake.
  • (3) It then sought to change the story with those clever, but frankly odd,, half-poetic public apologies.
  • (4) His own poetics emerged in The African Image (1962), a major contribution to the debate on African aesthetics.
  • (5) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
  • (6) "There is something extraordinarily poetic about smoking - from the gesture of holding a cigarette, turning it on, smoking it, the taste of it, the smell of it, I love every-thing about smoking."
  • (7) In a rather poetic-sounding list called the “fragility index” we are again somewhere at the bottom, or is it on top?
  • (8) So let's dry our guilt-induced " mermaid tears " – as these polluting plastic particles are poetically known – and face this issue.
  • (9) But know this America: they will be met.” The language was at its most poetic then too, with Obama signalling his promise to reduce inequality, for example, more elliptically than in later speeches: “The nation cannot prosper long when it favours only the prosperous”.
  • (10) That means "no longer romanticising terrorists as Robin Hoods and no longer idealising their deeds as rough poetic justice".
  • (11) At the end of the concert, this guy comes over with long hair and lipstick and he says ‘Hi how are you doing, I’m Brian Eno.’ I thought wow this is poetic justice … here’s Brian Eno listening to me, that’s great.
  • (12) The principle is that ordinary people have extraordinary thoughts — I've always believed that — and that ordinary people can speak poetically.
  • (13) His favourite book is The Poetic Edda, a landmark collection of Old Norse poetry.
  • (14) A Stoßgebet is a last-ditch prayer, and Schoß is a poetic term for female genitals.
  • (15) On the other hand, the discrepancies and absurdities, appearing again and again in his poetic products, are due to his habit of taking dream and its illogical connections as a model.
  • (16) And I suppose she has a poetic sensibility in that way."
  • (17) Their music has long been free of such unnecessary clutter as metaphor, allegory, and poetic conceit.
  • (18) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
  • (19) So the Middle East continues to implode – but amid the chaos emerges a further force, perhaps incredibly, a poetic and literary one.
  • (20) If this is close enough, Canelo may have a chance in Mayweather-Alvarez III, but clear unanimous points decision for my boyo Floyd in this one Daniel SanMateo rather poetically emails (read to the final paragraph): Mayweather looked formidable on the weighing day, but seemed not to be taking too seriously his opponent.

Prosody


Definition:

  • (n.) That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was concluded that use of vibrotactile stimulation enhanced D's production and resulted in listeners' perceptions of correct prosody.
  • (2) Assessment of all components of dysarthria, including resonance, articulation, phonation, respiration, and prosody, is stressed along with motivational and medical considerations.
  • (3) It was hypothesized that the acoustically anomalous features are linked to a common underlying deficit relating to speech prosody.
  • (4) Subjects were then asked to read out a list of sentences either stressing a nominated word (stress prosody expression) or conveying a nominated emotion (emotional prosody expression), and their efforts were rated by a panel of normal raters.
  • (5) This research examined the influence of mood-congruent and mood-incongruent contexts on recognizing affective prosody after brain damage.
  • (6) The results are discussed in regard to recent hypotheses for a privileged role of the right hemisphere in the organization of speech prosody.
  • (7) The present investigation was designed to determine the influence of stressed word prosody on auditory comprehension by listeners with aphasia.
  • (8) The present article provides a linguistic analysis of Monrad-Krohn's famous description of a patient with deviant prosody (1947).
  • (9) The striking disorder of prosody in Parkinson's disease relates to motor control, not to a loss of the linguistic knowledge required to make prosodic distinctions.
  • (10) Evidence linking neurophysiologic mechanisms with components of prosody is presented.
  • (11) Comparison of similar right and left, cortical (frontoparietal), and subcortical (capsule and basal ganglia) lesions suggested, but did not prove, that the RH pure prosody impairment is cortical whereas the RH tonal-semantic mismatch categorization impairment involves subcortical as well as cortical contributions.
  • (12) It appears that prosody, language and the motor planning of speech are integrated at a basal ganglia level.
  • (13) The present study examines laterality for affective and linguistic prosody using the dichotic listening paradigm.
  • (14) Young and elderly adults heard recorded passages of English prose spoken with and without normal prosody, and passages that were devoid of either linguistic or prosodic structure.
  • (15) Significant intergroup differences were found in the prosody production tasks but, in contrast to previous results, not in the receptive tasks on the recognition and appreciation of prosody and of facial expression.
  • (16) They may show a lack of spontaneous prosody or gesturing.
  • (17) It has been suggested that the non-dominant hemisphere is specialized for receptive and expressive music and prosody.
  • (18) In addition, expression of automatic speech such as singing, emotion, and possibly prosody can also influence mouth asymmetry, but in the opposite direction, suggesting a relatively greater right-hemisphere role for these types of expression.
  • (19) Hernández re-creates not only their rustic speech, but also the natural prosody peculiar to the peasant.
  • (20) HD patients were impaired in comprehension of both types of prosody compared to controls but were not different from stroke patients.

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