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Literature LCC WGU12
Literature-Notes chapter 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following describes the organization of ideas in an English (Shakespearian) sonnet? | An idea or theme is explored from three different perspectives in three quatrains, and a concluding couplet sums up or comments on the idea or theme. |
| Which of the following best describes the diction of this line from Sonnet 116: “Admit impediments. Love is not love”? | The line begins with elevated diction and switches to more informal diction |
| What is the narrative point of view in Sonnet 116? | The speaker is a first-person narrator |
| What pattern of repeated sounds occurs in this line from “The Red Wheelbarrow”: “beside the white”? | assonance |
| Which of the following is the best example of imagery? | At last morning came. A soft grey glow rose behind the black hills as, one by one, the stars twinkled and faded into the dawn. |
| Analsis | a method by which a thing is separated into parts, and those parts are given rigorous, logical, detailed scrutiny, resulting in a consistent and relatively complete account of the elements of the thing and the principles of their organization. |
| Explication (de texte) | a method, which originated in the teaching of literature in France, involving the painstaking analysis of the meanins, relationships, and ambiguities of the words, images, and other small units that make up a literary work. |
| English (Shakesperian) Sonnet | a sonnet consisting of three quatrains followed by a couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg |
| Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet | a sonnet divided into an octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet rhyming cdecde |
| Iambic Pentameter | |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza |
| Spenserian Sonnet | a sonnet of the english type in that it has three quatrains and a couplet but features quatrains joined by the use of linking rhymes: abab bcbc cdcd ee |
| Quatrain | a stanza of four lines |
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