Vocabulary
Occurring at night (Starts with an N)
Nocturnal
A comparison of two things not using like or as.
Metaphor
A long speech in which a character who is usually alone onstage expresses his or her private thoughts or feelings.
Soliloquy
"In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around,
And strangled her. No pain felt she;
I am quite sure she felt no pain."
Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning
This piece was written by Robert Browning and is a poem. It talks about painting on the wall and how it was put up as remembrance of someone he had murdered.
My Last Duchess
A legendary city, site of King Arthur's court and round table. (Starts with a C)
Camelot
A comparison of something using like or as.
Simile
The time and place of a story or play.
Setting
"A powerful monster, living down
In the darkness, growled in pain, impatient..."
Beowulf
Story where an Anglo Saxon fights dragons and monsters.
Beowulf
With mouths wide open in wonder of fear. (Starts with an A and ends with an E. Vocab from "Rime Of the Ancient Mariner."
Agape
A group of lines in a poem that form a single unit.
Stanza
A fourteen-line poem usually written in iambic pentameter that has one of several rhyme schemes.
Sonnet
"There was a Friar, a wanton one and merry,
A Limiter, a very festive fellow..."
The Canterbury Tales: The Friar
Its about a lady who lives in a castle that lives in Shalott
Lady of Shalott
Something ordinary or dull. (Starts with a P and was used in the story "The Demon Lover".
Prosaic
A song or songlike poem that tells a story.
Ballad
A kind of writing that ridicules human weakness or vice in order to bring out social reform. (We wrote and essay in this form.)
Sattire
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flowers that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying. "
To the Virgins, to make Much Of Time.
Porphyria's lover
Move from its usual location
Displaced
The main character in fiction, drama, or narrative poetry.
Protagonist
Language that appeals to the senses.
Imagery
"Water water everywhere and none that we can drink."
The Rime Of Ancient Mariner
This piece was written by Elizabeth Bowing and is a poem/sonnet where she lists out the ways that she loves her significant other.
Sonnet 43