Poetic Devices
Poetic Devices 2
English Renaissance
Sonnets
Poetic Devices 3
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The author's attitude toward the subject matter or audience
What is tone
100
The pattern of end rhymes in a stanza of a poem
What is rhyme scheme
100
The meaning of renaissance in French
What is rebirth
100
Popularized the Italian sonnet
What is Francesco Petrarch
100
When a foot of meter starts with a stressed syllable, followed by an unstressed syllable.
Trochee
200
This is used for descriptive effect, often to imply ideas or emotions indirectly.
What is figurative language
200
A figure of speech in which a writer addresses an absent person, an inanimate object, or idea as if it were present and capable of understanding.
What is apostrophe
200
Important documents uncovered by Petrarch at the beginning of the renaissance
What is Pre-Christian masterpieces in monastery libraries
200
Popularized the English sonnet
What is William Shakespeare
200
When a line of poetry has 4 metric feet of meter.
iambic tetrameter
300
Normal word order that is reversed
What is anastrophe or inversion
300
A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human characteristics.
What is personification
300
The language that many international literary works were translated into during the Renaissance
What is English
300
The first eight lines in an Italian sonnet
What is octave
300
refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly
connotation
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Syllables in iambic pentameter
What is 10
400
A situation or statement that seems to be impossible or contradictory but is nevertheless true.
What is paradox
400
The act of reading classical works emphasized this during the Renaissance
What is independent thinking
400
The last six lines of an Italian sonnet
What is sestet
400
refers to the literal, dictionary definition of a word.
denotation
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A comparison that shoes similarities between two things that are otherwise dissimilar
What is analogy
500
The repetition of consonant sounds, generally at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration
500
A movement that was produced during the Renaissance that encouraged intellectual inquiry and artistic activity
What is humanism
500
Typical type of stanza used in an Shakespearean sonnet
What is (4) quatrains
500
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
couplet
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