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What is Rossetti’s father’s name?

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Gabriel Rossetti

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What was Rossetti’s mother’s name?

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Frances Mary Polidori (Rossetti after she married Gabriel in 1826).

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When was Christina Rossetti born?

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5 December 1830

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What language did Gabriel Rossetti always speak to his children in?

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Italian

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What happened to Rossetti at age 14?

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She had a nervous breakdown and was diagnosed with religious mania.

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Anagram

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A word made from a rearrangement of letters from another word.

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Couplet

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A couplet is a pair of successive rhyming lines that are usually the same length. A couplet can be described as closed when the lines together form a full, grammatical sentence.

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Enjambment

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Enjambment is when a sentence or phrase runs over to the next line in the poem, without terminal punctuation.

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Free verse

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Free verse is best described as non-metrical and non-rhyming lines, whereby the poet does not adhere to any metrical rules in the composition.

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Hyperbole

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A hyperbole is like an inflated exaggeration of the truth.

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Iamb

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Iamb is a metrical foot made up of x /.

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Imagery

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Imagery is highlighted in a poem when the poet uses any of the five senses to create a mental image, often with the use of vivid or figurative language.

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Meter

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Meter is the rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse.

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Oxymoron

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An oxymoron is yet another figure of speech that describes the bringing together of contradicting words, such as ‘deafening silence’.

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Personification

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Personification is a when the poet describes an object as if it were a person.

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Pun

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A pun is a term that describes wordplay that uses two different words that are spelled identically to deliver multiple meanings at once.

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Stanza

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A stanza is a group of lines that are separated from others in a poem. In prose writing, you would describe this as a paragraph marking a shift in time or mood.

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Tone

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Tone, or mood, refers to the poet’s attitude and is interpreted by the reader. A combination of things can affect tone such as vocabulary, syntax, language, rhyme and metric regularity or irregularity.

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Refrain

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In a poem or song, a refrain is a line or group of lines that regularly repeat, usually at the end of a stanza in a poem or at the end of a verse in a song.

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20
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What did Rossetti believe about the Bible?

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It was written by humans at the inspiration of God.

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21
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What sect of Christianity did Rossetti follow?

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Tractarianism

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What does Tractarianism emphasise?

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Ritual and worship to be closer to God.

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Who is Rossetti’s sister and what did she do in 1873?

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Maria; joined the convent of All Saints and became a nun.

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What do nuns consider themselves to be?

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Brides of Christ.

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25
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What do cypress trees represent?

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Mourning because they were carried at funerals.

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What did Nightingales symbolise in Romantic poetry?

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Joy, nature, immortality.

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27
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In ‘Song: When I am Dead, My Dearest’, where does the line
‘And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise or set’
come from?

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The Book of Revelations, where God’s light is described as shining so brightly the sun is not needed.

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28
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What is a dramatic monologue?

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A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events.

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What is a ballad?

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A popular narrative song passed down orally.

30
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What is a sonnet?

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Traditionally, sonnets are made up of 14 lines and are iambic pentameter, and usually deal with love.

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What is a lyric poem?

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Lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.

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Petrarchan sonnet

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Perfected by the Italian poet Petrarch, divides the 14 lines into two sections: an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.

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What is an elegy?

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An elegy doesn’t have rules like some of the other forms of poetry but it does have a set subject: death. Although they can sound sad, elegies often end on a hopeful note.

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What is a tercet?

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A three-line stanza.

35
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What is a quatrain?

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A four-line stanza.

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What is a Cinquain?

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Five-line stanza.

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What is a sestet?

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A six-line stanza.

38
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What is a septet?

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Seven-line stanza.

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What is an octet?

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Eight-line stanza.

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Monometer

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Line with one foot.

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Dimeter

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Line with two feet.

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Trimeter

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Line of three feet.

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Tetrameter

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Line with four feet.

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Pentameter

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Line of five feet.

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Hexameter

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Line of six feet.

46
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Heptameter

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Line of seven feet.

47
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Octameter

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Line of eight feet.

48
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What is an iamb?

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A metrical foot of x-/

49
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What is a trochee?

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A metrical foot of /-x

50
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What is a spondee?

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A foot with /-/

51
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What is a pyrrhic?

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A foot of x-x

52
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What is an anapest?

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x-x-/

53
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What is a dactyl?

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/-x-x

54
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Last two line of Song (When I am Dead).

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‘Haply I may remember,

And haply may forget.’

55
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Hyperbaton

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An inversion of the normal order of words (think Yoda).

56
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What type of poem is Song (When I am Dead)?

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Lyric

57
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When did Rossetti compose ‘Remember’?

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1849, one year after ‘Song (When I am Dead)’.

58
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What type of poem is ‘Remember’ and why?

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Sonnet; it has 14 lines and is about love.

59
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Volta

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A change in tone or meaning.

60
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What did Mary Sandars say death was to Rossetti?

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“A beautiful angel”

61
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Who was the first to propose to Rossetti?

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James Collinson

62
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Why did Rossetti refuse Collinson’s proposal?

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He was part of the Roman Catholic Church.

63
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In response to Rossetti refusing his proposal, what did James Collinson do?

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Converted back to the Protestant Church of England.

64
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After Collinson had reverted back to Protestantism, what did Rossetti do?

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Agree to marry him.

65
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What year did Rossetti get engaged to James Collinson?

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1848

66
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last two lines of ‘Remember’.

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‘Better by far you should forget and smile

Than that you should remember and be sad.’

67
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What did Rossetti die of?

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Breast cancer

68
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What disease did Rossetti have?

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Graves disease.

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