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ENGL200 Midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer | Richness of Human Experience, Narrative heroic couplets, no metaphor |
| Chapman's Homer by John Keats | Centrality of classical tradition, Petrarchan sonnet, travel metaphor |
| Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare | Rumination on aging, Elizabethan sonnet, autumn metaphor |
| Nuns Fret Not by William Wordsworth | Beauty of limitation, Petrarchan sonnet, Confinement metaphor |
| Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Transience of power, Elizabethan sonnet with deteriorating rhyme scheme, big fractured statue metaphor for transience of power |
| Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost | Night vs Day Dark vs Light, Terza rima sonnet, night and ambivalent associations metaphor |
| Kubla Kahn by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Contrast between pleasure dome and the dangers beneath, three iambic stanzas of irregular length, pleasure dome and chasm metaphor |
| Iamb | Unstressed Stressed |
| Trochee | Stressed Unstressed |
| Spondee | Stressed Stressed |
| Pyrrhic Foot | Unstressed Unstressed |
| Anapest | Unstressed Unstressed Stressed |
| Dactyl | Stressed Unstressed Unstressed |
| Vehicle | Figurative image or idea |
| Tenor | Actual subject |
| Elizabethan Sonnet | 4,4,4,2 abab,cdcd,efef,gg |
| Petrarchan Sonnet | 8,6 abbaabba,cdecde |
| Sonnet | 14 lines of iambic pentameter with an intricate rhyme scheme |