ELEMENTS
One of the oldest and most powerful forms of expression, capturing emotions, experiences, and ideas in ways that ordinary language often can’t.
What is Poetry?
Often located at the conclusion of a line though it can also appear within a line itself.
What is rhyme?
6 feet
What is Hexameter?
A 14-line poem with a very specific rhyme scheme, structure, and meter.
What is a sonnet?
To define and celebrate the true nature of love.
What is the author's primary purpose?
How a poem looks on the page, including the number of lines, how they are grouped into stanzas, the line length, spacing, and sometimes even the shape of the poem itself.
What is form?
Use these to signify which end words rhyme to determine the scheme.
What are letters?
4 trochees (/ ˘)
What is Trochaic tetrameter?
The original sonnet form.
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
it is the star to every wandering bark.
What is true love?
The organization of ideas, guiding the poem from an introduction or imagery to a middle that develops or complicates the theme, and concluding with a resolution or reflection.
What is structure?
Beneath the stars, the world feels still,
A quiet night, the air so chill.
The moonlight dances on the sea,
A silver glow, wild and free.
What is a couplet?
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
What is Anapestic Trimeter?
Four-line stanzas.
What are three quatrains?
(Name the Figure of Speech) Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
What is Personification?
A poetic form that delves into recurring subjects of love, beauty, or philosophical contemplation.
What is a sonnet?
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What is monorhyme?
Double Double Toil and Trouble
What is Trochaic Tetrameter?
Shakespearean sonnets use this rhyme scheme.
What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
What is couplet?
Arrow → direction | Key → solution | Crown → royalty or power
What is symbolism?
/ ˘ ˘
What is a Dactyl or What is Dactylic?
˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘
What is Spondaic Pentameter?
A further discussion of the idea presented in the first heroic quatrain.
What is Quatrain 2?
a.k.a. Sonnet 116
What is Let me not to the marriage of true minds?