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
