Literary Terms 6 Flashcards
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English Sonnet
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- AKA Shakespearean sonnet
- Sonnet divided into three four-line units or quatrains followed by a concluding two-line unit or couplet
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Petrarchan Sonnet
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- AKA Italian sonnet
- Divided into two parts: 8th line octave with rhyme scheme abbaabba and a six-line sestet with rhyme scheme ceded or cdcdcd
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Volta
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- Turn in thought (common to Italian sonnets)
- Appears after 8th line
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Sestet
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-A poem or stanza of six lines
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Octave
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- AKA octet
- First eight lines of Petrarchan sonnet
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Conceit
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Fanciful and elaborate figure of speech that makes connection between two dissimilar things
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Quatrain
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-Stanza consisting of four lines which may follow variety of rhyme schemes
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Apostrophe
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-Figure of speech in which a person not present or personified abstraction is addressed
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Oxymoron
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- Greek for “pointedly foolish”
- Figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms which express startling paradox
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Scansion
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Analysis of metrical patterns of verse
