Vocabulary
Words that seem to resemble the qualities they describe, usually sounds.
Onomatopoeia
True or false: Modern Villanelles always have pastoral or rural themes
False
Number of lines in a Villanelle, which consists of five stanzas of three lines each and a quatrain.
19
Return
Iamb
English sonnets end with a...
Couplet
Repitition of vowel sounds in nearby words
Assonance
Century when the first Villanelle was published, the same century Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night
17th
Total number of stanzas in Villanelles
6
Tiger
Trochee
Term for the change in focus during a Petrarchan Sonnet
Volta
A line that consists of a sentence that ends with a punctuation mark.
End-Stopped
Century when the villanelle became popular in English through authors like Oscar Wilde
19th Century
Term for the first 5 stanzas of the villanelle, which contain 3 lines each
Tercet
Bookmark
(Two stressed syllables)
Spondee
In which line of a Petrarchan sonnet does the poem's direction usually change
9th
When a sentence or phrase continues beyond the end of a line into the next one
Enjambment
Language the first Villanelle was written in
French
Term for the lines that are repeated throughout the Villanelle
Refrain
Poetry
Dactyl
Type of rhyme ending in an unstressed syllable
Term for punctuation in the middle of a line
Caesura
Why did the songs Villanelles were originally based on repeat so many lines
To make them easier to memorize
Rhyme scheme for the final quatrain
ABAA
What is the meter of
As we walked down the lane in the sweltering heat
Anapestic Trimeter
Inventor of the Italian Sonnet
Giacomo da Lentini