Poetic Forms
The most famous form of lyric poetry from the Tudor era.
What is a sonnet?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
In "Farewell, Love," the speaker decides romantic love is this.
What is "not worth the trouble it causes"?
The main focus of "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning."
What is love while being separated?
Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" displays this view of rural life.
What is an idealized view?
This kind of sonnet has an octave and a sestet, presenting a problem and resolution.
What is an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet?
The giving of human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
In Sonnet 41, Sidney attributes his success in the tournament to this.
What is his sweetheart's presence?
Donne compares himself and his wife to this object.
What is a compass?
Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply" rejects this "seize the day" philosophy.
What is carpe diem?
This sonnet form has three quatrains and a couplet, often resolving the topic at the end.
What is an English sonnet?
A statement that seems self-contradictory but reveals truth.
What is a paradox?
Spenser's Amoretti differs from Sidney's Astrophil and Stella because Spenser celebrates this.
What is courtship and marriage?
In Holy Sonnet 14, the line "For I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free" is an example of this device.
What is paradox?
What is artificial or overly polished beauty?
This type of poetry presents the speaker's emotions and personal thoughts.
What is lyric poetry?
A metaphor that draws a parallel between highly dissimilar concepts. (an extended metaphor)
What is a conceit?
The virtue praised in Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 is this.
What is constancy?
In "The Pulley," the missing gift that draws man to God.
What is rest?
"On My First Son" is classified as this type of poem.
What is an elegy?
Unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter are known as this.
What is blank verse?
Addressing a nonhuman object or absent person as though it could respond.
What is apostrophe?
In Sonnet 116, this object serves as a metaphor for unshakable love.
What is the North Star?
In "Love (3)," Love represents this figure.
Who is Christ?
The main comparison in "The Pulley" illustrates this relationship.
What is God's relationship with humanity?