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What is a stanza?

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Series of lines grouped together

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What is a line?

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A single line of text in a poem

  • not necessarily a sentence
  • sometimes one sentence can span across several lines
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Couplet

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2 lines

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Tercet

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3 lines

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Quatrain

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4 lines

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Quintet

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5 lines

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Sestet

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6 lines

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Octave

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8 lines

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Lyric Poem

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  • Very popular with Romantic writers
  • 1st person account
  • Thoughts and feelings
  • Usually described specific moment
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Sonnet

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Specific lyric poem

Consists of 14 lines

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Petrarchan sonnet

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Octave and sestet (group of 8 lines, group of 6 lines)

Abba abba, cdecde or cdcdcd

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Shakespearean sonnet

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Three quatrains and a couplet
Iambic pentameter
Abab, cdcd, efef, gg

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Rhyme

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Repetition of similar sounds

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What is end rhyme?

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  • occurs at the end of two or more lines
  • word at end of line
  • most common
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Rhythm

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Sound pattern in poetic language

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Two parts of rhythm

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  • Type of foot

- Number of feet

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Foot

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Rhythmical unit
-usually 2 or 3 syllables
Stressed= strong or loud syllable
Unstressed= weak or quiet syllable

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Iambic

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Type of foot
-unstressed, stressed
(Most common)

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Trochaic

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Type of foot

-stressed, unstressed

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Anapestic

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Type of foot

-Unstressed, Unstressed, Stressed

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Dactylic

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Type of foot
-Stressed, Unstressed, Unstressed
(Rare in English)

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Two feet

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Dimeter

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Three feet

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Trimeter

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Four feet

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Tetrameter

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Five feet

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Pentameter

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Six feet

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Hexameter

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Blank verse

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-Iambic Pentameter
-No rhyme
(Shakespeare’s favorite)

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Free verse

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  • No rhythm

- No rhyme

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Enjambment

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Thought continues onto the next poetic line; line without end punctuation

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Tone

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Writer’s attitude

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Speaker

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Narrator of poem

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What qualities of an American Romantic Hero did Rip van Winkle possess and which did he lack?

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Rip possessed: youthful qualities, innocent purpose, and a love of nature
Lacked: a sense of honor based on higher principles, knowledge of people based on intuitive understanding rather than formal learning, and a quest for higher truth in the natural world

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Romanticism

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Began in Europe in the 18th century, came to America in the early 19th century

  • feeling/emotion
  • imagination
  • natural world (supernatural)
  • past
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Rationalism

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  • focus on reason
  • city is integral
  • city = success
  • change/revolution
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How did the historical background of the early 19th century influence the Romantic writers?

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Population in cities was increasing
-city=dirty, disease, crime
Distrust progress
Industrialization begins
Opposes rationalism
36
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How does the speaker in the “Cross of Snow” use religious imagery and diction?

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Uses the image of the cross to show his wife was holy/religious
“Soul more white”= pure/innocent
“Halo of pale light”= saint-like/holy
“Martyrdom”= saint

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Positive effects of industrialization in “The Ropewalk”

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-swings, drawing water from a well, ringing a bell, flying a kite, fishing, anchors, traps for hunting

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Negative effects of industrialization in “The Ropewalk”

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Factory conditions (portrayed as gloomy, depressing)
Long hours of work
Gallows for execution (use of rope)

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What are the literary devices in “Old Ironsides”?

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Imagery: “Her deck, once red with heroes’ blood”
Verbal irony: “O better that her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave”
Allusion: “the harpies of the shore shall pluck”
Metaphor: “the eagle of the sea”

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