Letteratura inglese Flashcards
1) 55 B.C
The roman invasion brings latin
words from latin: human, solar, factory
29% of the english words have latin origins
2) 450 A.D. (anno domini)
Germanic migrations of Angles, Saxon, Jutes
words from germanic migrations: girl, food, apple
26% of the english words have germanic migrations origins
3) 6th century
Cristianity
latin, greek, hebrew (specially greek)
words from greek: democracy, justice, idea
-6% of the english words have greek origins
4) from 8th century to 11th century
Viking invasions give rise to Scandinavian languages
5) 11th century , 1066
Invasions by the Normans bring the French
words from french: liberty, very, beef
29% of the english words have french origins
6) 15th -16 th century
Europeans started discover the world ( Asia, America, South Africa)
New words like : tomato, potato, tabacco
7) 18th- 19th century
Industrial revolution brings the colonialism
New words like: shampoo
8) 21 st
Internet age
New words like : to google, to hoover
Definition of poetry
Poetry meaning to create.
A poet is the creator of a poem and poetry means the art of writing them.
Poetry began a long time ago. It was transmitted orally and recorded what was memorable in people’s lives: battles, victories, heroic deeds
The main ingredients of poetry
Poetry is literary genre characterised by a number of sound effects by the use of a particular rhythm and metre, by a carefully selected language and by a particular layout.
The layout
The layout is the way a poem appears on the page.
words composed in verse, which are in turn grouped into stanzas.
There are many different types of stanzas. Esistono diversi tipi di strofe.
The most common are:
✒️Couplet : a stanza with two lines.
✒️Tercet: a stanza with three lines.
✒️Quatrain: a stanza with four lines.
✒️Sestet: a stanza with six lines.
✒️Octave: a stanza with eight lines.
the sound
Sound devices are the poem’s musical effects.
The musical effect given by rhyme, alliteration, onomapoteia….
rhyme (suono)
Rhyme occurs when the lasy word of two or more lines in a poem end with the same sound.
When rhymes in a poem occur regularly form a rhyme scheme, that is marked with the letters of alphabet
onomatopeia( suono)
onomatopeic words, are words whose sound suggests the sense.
The term buzz reproduces the sound of bees when they fly
end stopped lines (suono)
When the sense is completes within the end of a line
rhythm
rhythm affects a poem’s musical quality , the rhythm is intensified and follows a pattern called metre.
Metre depends on a number of stressed and unstressed syllabes in a line.
figures of speech
words in poetry are used to “help” the reader to make connections which often go beyond the literal meaning in fact poetry use more connotative language.
simile ( figures of speech)
a simile is when one thing is compared to another which looks different.
Similes are explicit comparisons using the words “like” or “as”
metaphor ( figures of speech)
metaphor involves replacing one word with another to make a concept more strong
litotes (figures of speech)
litotes is when we affirm one thing by denying its contrary.
i don’t fell ver good to say i feel bad
