Romance del rey moro que perdió Alhama

versos octosílabos

8 syllabuls per line

encanbalgamiento

a poetic device that occurs when a sentence or phrase continues from one line to the next without punctuation at line break to overwhelm reader (abrumar)

polyfonía

different voices (varios oradoes)

(narrador, la gente, el rey, el moro viejo, y el alfaquí)

código

something you have to know to understand

ex. los Bencerraje, Marte, un alfaquí

estrabilla

repetición de una frase al final de un verso

ex. Ay de mi Alhama

ritma asonante

only the vowels are the same to make the reader uncomfy (incómodo)

imagenes auditivas

audible imagery

ex. trumpets

sinalefa

the merging of two syllabols

quien dice ay de mi alhama

la gente

que hizo el rey con las cartas

las echó en el fuego

porque está el Alfaquí frustrado

porque el rey traicionó (traicionar means to betray) la ciudad cuando mató los Bencerraje

anadiplosis

a line starts with the same word or phrase that the previous line finished with

ex. Bien se te emplea, buen rey,

buen rey bien se te emplea

what’s going on inSpain at this time

la reconquista

la reconquista

los cristianos reconquistaron España de los moros musulmanes despies de siglos de dominio Musulman

where is this set

Granada, Andalucia

converting from christianity to muslim

tornadizos

converting from muslim to christian

conversos

4 types of romances and describe each one

historicos - gives the history of a certain people or region

legendarios - legends/stories

novelescos - tell the adventure/quest of a hero

fronterizo/morisco - tells the history of the moors

is Alhama just Muslim?

No! the towns people are both Christian and Muslim. Even though the Christians are living under Muslim rule, they are still very content and are not happy when the Christians come in to conquer their city

para que estuvieron tocados los trompetas?

para que la gente de Alhama prepara para guerra y recogiera sus armas