Chapter 3B Flashcards
Instruction in literature. Writers and critics believe imaginative literature should have two purposes; to delight and to teach
Didacticism
A highly artificial literary mode which centers on shepherds and idealizes rural settings.
Pastoralism
A lyric poem of fourteen iambic-pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to one of two patterns,
Sonnet
The first eight lines, called the octave, rhyme abbaabba. The last six lines called. The sestet may use any combination of two or three new rhymes. For sample, cdcdcd, cdecde, cdecde.
Petrarchan or Italian sonnet
Consists of three quatrains and closing couplet and rhymes ababcdcdefeffg (improvised by the earl of surrey and refined by Shakespeare)
Shakespearean
The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry. Read and understand the full definition given in your textbook glossary
Meter
Identical sound in corr spending words or phrases (list and define all types of rhyme from your textbook glossary.)
Rhyme
A four line stanza, one of the most common stanza forms in English poetry
Quatrain
A seeming contradiction
Paradox
The addressing of some no personal (or absent) object as if it were able to reply
Apostrophe
Broadly, the expression of one thing in terms of another. In stricter usage, it is the stated or implied equivalence of two things. (“I am the bread of life.”
Metaphor
A recurring of emerging idea in a work of literature. A work may have many themes. It’s major theme is its main point, similar to the thpoint sis of an essay. It may explicit or implicit
Theme
A striking and often elaborate comparison carried out in considerable detail
Conceit
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
A speech addressed to an audience by an actor alone on stage.
Soliloquy
