Poetic Forms
Figurative Language
Sonnets
EOC Preparation Terms
Point of View
100
How many lines are in traditional sonnets?
What is fourteen lines?
100
Recurrence or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence of vowels (as in the final sounds of “stroke” and “luck”)
What is consonance?
100
A style of poetry defined as a complete thought written in two lines with rhyming ends. These lines are seen at the end of Shakespearean sonnets.
What is a couplet?
100
A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature
What is allusion?
100
The narrator of a story knows all about the thoughts and feelings of EVERY character in the plot; “all-knowing”
What is third person omniscient?
200
The first eight lines of a Petrarchan sonnet? The last six lines?
What is an octave and a sestet?
200
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words
What is pun?
200
Who is considered to be the individual responsible for creating the sonnet form?
What is Petrarch?
200
An association that comes along with a particular word. This relates not to a word's actual meaning but rather to the ideas or qualities that are implied by that word.
What is connotation?
200
The narrator of a story is outside the action of the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of only ONE character (not the other characters)
What is third person limited?
300
This sonnet writer would arrange his sonnet into three quatrains, followed by a final couplet. Usually the volta would come around the beginning of the third quatrain, which is just where it would be if it were a Petrarchan sonnet, too.
What is Shakespeare?
300
The substitution of an agreeable or non-offensive phrase for one that might be offensive or unpleasant (Ex: instead of “died” people use “passed away” or “went on to glory”/instead of “fat” people use “big-boned”)
What is a euphemism?
300
This is a metrical foot that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
What is an iamb?
300
The author comes right out and tells the reader about a character’s personality and/or traits. This is a type of characterization.
What is direct characterization?
300
The narrator participates in the action of the story and uses First Person pronouns “I, me, my”
What is first person point of view?
400
The rhyme scheme for the octave is usually ABBAABBA, while the rhyme scheme for the sestet was a little more fast and loose. Sometimes folks go with CDECDE or CDCDCD. But those are just two options, and there are more where that came from.
What is Petrarchan sonnets?
400
A narrative that serves as an extended metaphor. They are written in the form of fables, parables, poems, stories, and almost any other style or genre. The main purpose of is to tell a story that has characters, a setting, as well as other types of symbols, that have both literal and figurative meanings.
What is an allegory?
400
How many feet are in a line of iambic pentameter?
What is five?
400
This is the form of language that is characteristic of a particular place or group of people (Ex: New York/New Jersey accent, country accent, British accent, etc.)
What is dialect?
400
Which three questions do you have to ask yourself when considering point of view?
What is the narrator, pronouns used, and which thoughts you know?
500
A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
500
A character that has only one trait and is one-dimensional like a stereotype (Ex: nagging wife, criminal skate-boarders, lazy surfers, bad women drivers, etc.)
What is an archetype?
500
This is a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion.
What is the volta?
500
A phrase in common use that cannot be understood by literal or ordinary meanings (Ex: a chip on your shoulder, a blessing in disguise, a dime a dozen)
What is an idiom?
500
The feeling or atmosphere created in a literary work that suggests a specific emotion, hints at the quality of the setting, etc; in poetry word choice, line length, rhythm, etc, contribute to the ____; descriptive language and figures of speech as contribute
What is mood?
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