Paraphrasing
Literature Terms
Life of Petrarch
Quote Identification
Quote Explanation
100
Paraphrase the following quote: "She seemed divine among the dreary folk."
What is "She stood out from the crowd."?
100
Identify the following literature device: “Her eyes were brighter than the radiant west (Petrarch 675).”
What is "Metaphor"?
100
Petrarch's occupation
What is a philosopher?
100
She used to let her golden hair fly free/ For the wind to toy and tangle and molest/
What is Laura
100
“She did not walk in any mortal way”
What is she walks like an angel; nothing on the planet moves the way she does
200
Paraphrase the following quote: "Your name be blessed, to live in deathless fame."
What is "Your name shall live on forever."?
200
The poem, The White Doe, is an example of what?
What is "Extended Metaphor"?
200
The conutry Petrarch was from
What is Italy?
200
A pure white doe in an emerald glade/
What is the White Doe
200
“That in death as in life thy body may be roses”
What is she is so lovely and beautiful that when she dies she won’t decompose but her body will turn into beautiful roses
300
Paraphrase the following quote: "Buried, I shall a flesh less phantom be, hovering by the shadowed myrtle tree."
What is " Although I am dead, my spirit will still hover on Earth."?
300
Identify the following literature device: “And Jove exults in Venus’ prospering (Petrarch 677).”
What is "Allusion"?
300
The woman who Petrarch loved.
Who is Laura
300
Hearing “Ronsard,” will shake off sleep and pray/ Your name be blessed, to live in deathless fame
What is To Helene
300
she is so lovely and beautiful that when she dies she won’t decompose but her body will turn into beautiful roses
What is wherever this beautiful woman goes the she nourishes the earth, and brings life and spring
400
Paraphrase the following quote: "But, broken by the rain or the sun’s oppressive power, languishing she dies and all her petals throw."
What is "Over time, she eventually became weak and dies."
400
Identify the following literature device: “But, broken by the rain or the sun’s oppressive power (Petrarch 680).”
What is "Personification"?
400
What Laura did to Petrarch after he expressed his love
What is rejection?
400
As one sees on the branch in the month of May the rose/ In her beautiful youth, in the dawn of her flower/
What is Roses
400
“Her sight was so suavely merciless”
What is seeing her was an innocent creature also precious
500
Paraphrase the following quote: "Ladies are gracious now.--Where deserts burn, the beasts still prowl on the ungreening sand."
What is "Everything is back to normal, but the changing process is not fully complete."?
500
Identify the following literature device: “O take, take for obsequies my tears, these poor showers (Petrarch 680).”
What is "Hyperbolic Metaphor"?
500
Petrarch's overall affectiual endeavors for Laura
What is failure?
500
And Jove exults in Venus prospering/ Love is in all the water, earth, and air/ And love possesses every living thing/
What is Spring
500
Around her neck “do not touch me”
What is Around her neck “do not touch me”
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