1. Sonnets
Name the two major patterns (or styles) of sonnets.
English and Italian
Who wrote song to Celia?
Ben Johnson
What does Carpe Diem mean?
seize the day
What are the markings for stressed and unstressed syllables?
stressed - /
unstressed - U
One common theme seen in pastoral poetry is _____________.
Shepherds, rural life, critiques of society, love and death
What does the Italian word "sonnetto" mean?
What poet/playwrite is known for writing in iambic pentameter?
Shakespeare
What is personification?
Giving human characteristics to something that is not human
What is the most common meter/foot combination seen in poetry?
Iambic Pentameter
A common theme of Sonnets is _______.
How many lines per stanza are there in a traditional sonnet?
14
Which poet is known for his satirical writing and was eventually tortured because of it?
Ben Jonson
Name 3 common sound devices used in poetry.
Alliteration, assonance, consonance, repitition, rhyme, etc.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day would be labled as ___________ _____________.
Iambic Pentameter
What is "Song to Celia" about?
Love, obsession, etc.
What is the typical rhyme scheme in the octave of an Italian Sonnet?
abbaabba
Who wrote A Valediction Forbidding Mourning?
John Donne
A statement that contradicts itself but yet makes sense in the full context of the piece of literature.
If a line contains 3 feet consisting of a stressed unstressed pattern, we would label it as ________ _____________.
Trochaic Trimeter
Which pastoral poet attended Cambridge, was known for "Tamburlaine", "The Massacre at Paris", "Dr. Faustus", and was (in the wise words of Taylor Mulock) "built different"?
Christopher Marlowe
List the entire rhyme scheme of an English Sonnet
abab cdcd efef gg
Which metaphysical poet is known for using personification in their writing?
George Herbert
What is an apostrophe?
Addressing an absent person or inanimate object as if they/it could reply.
If a line of poetry has a stray stressed syllable (/) at the end, it has a _____________ ending.
Masculine
"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" contains a very vivid metaphor in the last half of the poem. What is this metaphor comparing the writer's love to?
A drawing compass