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Literature-Notes chapter 12

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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.  
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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  
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What is the narrative point of view in Sonnet 116?   The speaker is a first-person narrator  
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What pattern of repeated sounds occurs in this line from “The Red Wheelbarrow”: “beside the white”?   assonance  
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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.  
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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.  
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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.  
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English (Shakesperian) Sonnet   a sonnet consisting of three quatrains followed by a couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg  
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Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet   a sonnet divided into an octave rhyming abbaabba and a sestet rhyming cdecde  
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Iambic Pentameter    
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Rhyme Scheme   The pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza  
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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  
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Quatrain   a stanza of four lines  
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