English Flashcards
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Type of literature based on the interplay of words and rhythm
Poem/poetry
Romeo ____________
Montague
William’s bday
April 23, 1564
ode, sonnet, elegy
lyric
Types of Metrical Foot
Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee
trochaic tetrameter
William was raised in _____________
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Positive / Comparative / Superlative
She is smart.
Positive
38 plays, 2 narrative poems, ___ sonnets
154
1st and 3rd lines rhyme, while 2nd and 4th also rhyme
Ex:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Alternate rhyme
Has 3 children:
Susanna, Judith, Hamnet (Judith and Hamnet were twins, but Hamnet died at age 11)
Juliet _____________
Capulet
Golden age of literature
The Renaissance Period
epic, ballad, metrical romance
narrative
3 poetry types/
lyric, narrative, dramatic
rhyme is at the end of each line
Ex:
As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and summer and still.
End rhyme
monologue, soliloquy
dramatic
rhyme is in the same line
Ex:
I went to town to buy a gown.
I took the car, and it wasn’t far.
Internal rhyme
Types of Metrical Foot
The sea is calm.
iambic dimeter
Anapest
u u /
Kinds Of Adjectives
Do you know whose bags these are?
Interrogative
Positive / Comparative / Superlative
She is smarter.
Comparative
Order of adjectives
Order of adjectives
Determiner
Quantity
Opinion/quality
Size
Shape
Age
Color
Origin
Material
Purpose
Types of Metrical Foot
Cannon in front of them.
= dactylic dimeter
pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem,
usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme
Ex:
ABAB rhyme scheme:
As long as it takes to pass A
A ship keeps raising its hull; B
The wetter ground like glass A
Reflects a standing gull B
Rhyme scheme
