Quiz 4 Flashcards
a collection of 108 sonnets and 11 songs; the sonnet cycle represents the poet’s love for Penelope Devereaux
Astrophil and Stella
the rhyme of a stressed one-syllable word at the end of a line (or if the word has more than one syllable, then the last syllable is stressed)
masculine rhyme
whom Astrophil represents
Sidney
the knight’s helmet
for a hive of bees
pale; sickly
wan
rejected
spurned
whom Stella represents
Devereaux
“Beauty, strength, youth are flowers but fading seen; / Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.”
key contrast that reveals the theme
written for the occasion of the retirment of Queen Elizabeth’s champion knight; espouses honor, reverence, and loyalty to the queen
“A Farewell to Arms”
a rhyme of two or more syllables, with the stress on a syllable other than the last
feminine rhyme
a figure of speech in which someone (usually absent), an abstract quality, or a non0existent personage is addressed as though present
apostrophe
combines Petrarchan and Spenserian
Sonnet 31 rhyme scheme
“O Time too swift, O swiftness ever ceasing!”
an instance of apostrophe
simple, yet cozy and comfortable
homely
characterizes the speaker in Sonnet 31
sad, lonely, and heartbroken
reveals
decries
attributing human emotions and actions to inanimate objects of nature
pathetic fallacy
“With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies! / How silently, and with how wan a face!”
an instance of the pathetic fallacy
one of the knight’s duties while serving on the Queen’s court
writing love sonnets
“‘Blest be the hearts that wish my sovereign well, ‘ Curst be the souls that think her any wrong”
the knight in his homely cell teaching this song to the swains
