Sonnets
A sonnet made up of three ABAB quatrains and a final heroic couplet
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
a reference in a text to a significant person, place, or thing
What is allusion?
The old lady in Sir Bercilak's court, Gawain's aunt
Who is Morgan le Fay?
Who is Rosalind?
the repetition of words at the start of a line or phrase
What is anaphora?
A sonnet made up of an octave and a sestet
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
a dramatic exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
A deer, a boar, and a fox
What are the spoils of Bercilak's three hunts, exchanged for a kiss, two kisses, and three kisses (but not the green girdle)?
the fool, who always finds something to complain about
Who is Jacques?
the break or pause in a line of verse
What is caesura?
A pattern of five unstressed-stressed units: dah-DAH dah-DAH dah-DAH dah-DAH dah-DAH
What is iambic pentameter?
What is parallelism?
A list of times men were deceived unto their doom by women
What is Gawain's response to finding out Lady Bercilak was testing him?
the green world, an idealized rural setting away from the corruption of the court
What is the Forest of Arden?
putting an idea and its opposite next to each other
What is antithesis?
The sudden poetic turn or change of attitude
What is the volta?
When a poem directly addresses someone who is absent, dead, inanimate, or even an abstract concept
What is apostrophe?
What is Frye's first mode: Romance?
the focuses of a comedic conclusion
What are marriage and the resolution of gender confusion?
a poetic device where one associated thing stands in for another (ex. using 'the Crown' for the monarchy)
What is metonymy?
Either before the third quatrain or before the heroic couplet
What is the location of the volta in a Shakespearean sonnet?
A metaphor extending over at least a few lines of a poem
What is a conceit?
The central idea of virtue in this poem
What is keeping your promises?
the structure of a Shakespearean comedy
What is the movement from the lower world (of restraint, inhibition, and tyranny), through a state of confusion (disguise, lies, misunderstandings), and to the creation of a new world (including at least one wedding)?
a poetic device where the part stands in for the whole, or (less commonly) the whole stands in for a part (ex. saying 'lend a hand' for providing physical assistance)
What is synecdoche?