Readong Quiz 4(?) Flashcards
What is Rhetoric
The art of persuasion from young Plato’s book
What is iteratio
Repeating words for emotional impact “No, no no no!”
What is periphrasis
Periphrasis: a word or phrase describing a thing without naming it.
What is Address/Apostrophe
Apostrophe: addressing an absent subject
What is a conceit?
A far fetched metaphor
What is Epistrophe
Repetition appearing in the final position
What’s part of the sonnet structure?
Stanza
Rhythm
Rhyme
Turn (Volta)
How is the English sonnet divided
4 parts.
3 quatrains and one couplet
Ex. Abab cdcd efef gg
What are sonnets traditionally about
Love
What is the turn/volta
A rhetorical move meant to alter the readers understanding of the meaning of the poem
What is sonnet 130 about
The women is very beautiful, but it’s important for the poet to view the women he loves realistically
What is sonnet 18 about
It’s how the youth has qualities that surpass summers day?
Who did Shakespeare write his poems for
His poems were for the general public with jokes meant to be understood and enjoyed by the everyday man during Shakespeare time.
Who was sir Thomas Wyatt
English politician, ambassador, and poet. Poetry was circulated around court and published after death.
What is sir Thomas Wyatt’s poem the longest love that in my thought forth harbour about
He speaks of the character confessing as a night but then the persona of that character changes to meek and childish getting mad when rejected.
What does Carpe Diem mean?
Seize the day. You really only have so many days to live, enjoy all of em.
Who is Andrew Marvel
He wrote to his coy mistress
What is to his coy mistress about
First she’s showered in compliments to try and get her to sleep with him, then he says eventually you won’t be pretty and you’ll die and only lose your virginity to the worms.
What is antithesis
where equivalence is one not of similarity but of opposition. a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
What is Chiasmus
: “variation of parallelism or antithesis that repeats the terms in inverse order, A is to B as B is to A”
Fair is could and foul is fair
