English Yr9 Spring Key Words

Question 1

Sonnet

Answer 1

A 14 line one stanza poem written in iambic pentameter. It comes from the Italian word ‘sonneto’ meaning little song

Question 2

Elizabethan

Answer 2

Literature produced during the Elizabethan period when queen Elizabeth I was on the throne

Question 3

Courtly love

Answer 3

A fashionable and formalised love ritual popular in the courts of queen Elizabeth I

Question 4

Unrequited love

Answer 4

Being in love with somebody who does not return that love

Question 5

Courtier

Answer 5

A person who regularly attends a royal court in this context queen Elizabeth I court

Question 6

Conventions

Answer 6

Features that are typical to a genre of literature or form of poetry

Question 7

Quatrains

Answer 7

Four lines of poetry grouped together usually by a thyme scheme and theme/argument

Question 8

Parody

Answer 8

A parody is a work that mimics in a humorous way the conventions and style of another work in order to derive ridicule ironic comment or affectionate fun

Question 9

Iambic pentameter

Answer 9

A line of verse with ten sylables consisting of alternatively one unstressed and one stressed syllable

Question 10

Volta

Answer 10

Italian word for turn a turning point or shift in argument typically found after the second quatrain in a sonnet