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English Final Review
Question | Answer |
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Sonnet | 14-lined poem usually written in iambic pentameter |
Italian (Petarchan) | octave (abbaabba) + sestet (cdecde OR cdcdcd) |
English (Shakespearean) | quatrains (abab cdcd efef) + couplet (gg) |
What is usu. presented in sonnets? | A problem or question; presented in the octave |
What is the turn?? | Where the question or problem is answered or solved. |
Sonnet 75 (author) | Edmund Spenser |
Sonnet 75 (literary devices) | Paradox- an apparent contradiction that is somehow true; the people are mortal but their love is immortal because we are still reading about them. |
Sonnet 29 (author) | William Shakespeare |
Sonnet 29 (literary devices) | About ridding the ugly emotions for love; personifies fortune because he is unfavored by other people AND fortune |
Sonnet 130 (author) | William Shakespeare |
Sonnet 130 (literary devices) | talks about how he can be honest in his relationship, makes it special; average mistress but she's special to him; her breasts are brown because works outside |
Hamlet | Prince of Denmark; 1100 AD |
Satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn in order to bring about change |
William Blake | Saw visions and devoted his life to worshiping God with his poetry and art; believed that every object and event on earth had a mystical or spiritual meaning |
When the stars threw down their spears And watered heaven with their tears | refernce to the angels who fell with Satan (St. Lucifer) and threw down their spears after losing the war with heaven |
"The Tyger" | William Blake |
"The Lamb" | William Blake |
Intimation | A Vague Sense |
"from Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" | William Wordsworth |
"She Walks in Beauty" | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
"When I Have Fears" | John Keats |