English Flashcards
form
is the name of the text type that the writer uses. For example, scripts, sonnets, novels etc. All of these are different text types that a writer can use. The form of a text is important because it indicates the writer’s intentions, characters or key themes.
denotative
Denotation is the objective meaning of a word.
connotative
The emotional suggestions of a word, that is not literal.
blank verse
verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
metrical feet
the basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter. A foot usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable. The standard types of feet in English poetry are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest, spondee, and pyrrhic (two unstressed syllables).
couplet
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
Petrarchan
the Petrarchan sonnet is a received form that has 14 lines and a slightly flexible rhyme scheme.
shakespearean
Shakespearean or English sonnet has fourteen lines, consisting of three groups of four lines each, followed by a single rhyming couplet.
Spenserian
a sonnet form named for the poet Edmund Spenser. A Spenserian sonnet comprises three interlocked quatrains and a final couplet, with the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.
what is a stanza
More specifically, a stanza usually is a group of lines arranged together in a recurring pattern of metrical lengths and a sequence of rhymes.
volta
the volta is the turn of thought or argument: in Petrarchan or Italian sonnets it occurs between the octave and the sestet, and in Shakespearean or English before the final couplet.
petrachan conceit
the Petrarchan conceit, which was especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets, is a hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object—e.g., a tomb, the ocean, the sun.
platonic love
love conceived by Plato as ascending from passion for the individual to contemplation of the universal and ideal. 2 : a close relationship between two persons in which sexual desire is nonexistent or has been suppressed or sublimated.
verbal irony
Verbal irony is a figure of speech. The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says
situational irony
The third, and debated, use of irony regards what’s called situational irony. Situational irony involves a striking reversal of what is expected or intended: a person sidesteps a pothole to avoid injury and in doing so steps into another pothole and injures themselves.
