final

Question 1

scansion

Answer 1

scanning a line of poetry for metrical beat/rythm

Question 2

alliteration

Answer 2

repetitions of sounds at the beginning of words in a phrase

Question 3

assonance

Answer 3

repetition of vowels at the beginning of words in a phrase

Question 4

consonance

Answer 4

repetition of consonants at the beginning of words in a phrase

Question 5

neoclassicism

Answer 5

new classicism-referring to the classicism period

Question 6

Senecan amble

Answer 6

a line of poetry that has the subject first and then details later

Question 7

ciceronian rounded period

Answer 7

a line of poetry that has much detail and then the subject at the end

Question 8

metrical regularity

Answer 8

every line the rhyme sceme is perfect, the caesura is placed perfectly

Question 9

metrical fluidity

Answer 9

allows for some substitution of syllables to fit in the iamb

Question 10

run-over

Answer 10

no end stop

Question 11

accent/stress

Answer 11

what part of the word/phrase you put the stress on while reading

Question 12

italian/Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 12

an octave and a sestet
the octave presents the idea or issue or problem
sestet offers a solution
volta at ln 9
abbaabba[cdecde] (bracketed portion can vary)

Question 13

elizabethan/Shakespearean sonnet

Answer 13

3 quatrains and a couplet
each quatrain explores the main idea
couplet is an epigrammatic turn
ababcdcdefefgg

Question 14

sonnets

Answer 14

14 lines, iambic pentameter

Question 15

iambic pentameter

Answer 15

one iamb=unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
pentameter=5
5 iambs

Question 16

blank verse

Answer 16

unrhyming iambic pentameter
John milton

Question 17

octave and sestet

Answer 17

octave=8 lines
sestet=6 lines
together is I/P sonnet

Question 18

volta

Answer 18

a turn of content

Question 19

quatrain and couplet

Answer 19

quatrain=4 lines
couplet=2 lines

Question 20

epigrammatic turn

Answer 20

turn in content of poem

Question 21

metaphysical conceit

Answer 21

a comparison that is more ingenious than appropriate
meta=above/over

Question 22

native plain style

Answer 22

fixed caesura
end-stopped lines
syntax subordinated to meter (metrics are more important than syntax)
anti-courtly content
imagery often stark, “real” rather than elaborate

Question 23

classical plain style

Answer 23

floating caesura
allowance for run-overs
meter subordinated to syntax
neoclassical so far as subject matter is concerned

Question 24

shakespeare sonnets

Answer 24

1-126 are addressed to the fair young man
127-154 are dressed to the dark lady

Question 25

donnes holy sonnets

Answer 25

abnormal because he writes as the speaker is his soul and he is speaking to God

Question 26

1500-1660

Answer 26

the renaissance

Question 27

1558-1603

Answer 27

the elizabethan age

Question 28

1603-1625

Answer 28

the Jacobean age

Question 29

1625-1649

Answer 29

the Caroline age

Question 30

1649-1660

Answer 30

the commonwealth interregnum

Question 31

1660-1700

Answer 31

the restoration age

Question 32

1660-1798

Answer 32

the neoclassical period