Man’s English Final

Allegory

Literary work with two or more levels of meaning one loteral level and one or more symbolic levels

Blank Verse

Pie try written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Characterization

the act of creating and developing a character

Elegy

A solemn and formal lyric Poem about death Epi

Epic

a long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or of a hero

Equivocation

the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication

exemplum

a short tale or anecdote with a moral, especially one used in a medieval sermon

Italian Sonnet

a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd

Lyric Poetry

expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker

Medieval Romance

\n adventure stories that feature kings, knights, and damsels in distress and tell of quests, battles, and doomed love

pastoral

\n Literary work that deals with the pleasure of a simple, rural life or with escape to a simpler place and time

Satire

\n A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.

Shakespearean sonnet

\n a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg

social commentary

writing that offers insight into society, its values, and its customs

Theme

Central idea of a work of literature

Allusion

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

Apostrophe

A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.

folk ballad

A narrative poem designed to be sung, composed by an anonymous author, and transmitted orally for years or generations before being written down. It has usually undergone modification through the process of oral transmission.

iambic pentameter

a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable

Mood

\n Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

Narrative Poetry

a poem that tells a story

Personification

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

quest

a search, hunt; to search, seek, ask

sonnet sequence

a group of sonnets composed by one poet and having a unifying theme or subject.

Sonnet 39

the speaker is trying to sleep to stop his thoughts

Sonnet 31

The speaker is talking to the moon - Hopelessness for stella his lover sonne

Sonnet 26

No pain no Gain Sonn

Sonnet 75

the speaker writes his lovers name in the sand over and over again as it keeps getting washed away - Live in the moment

Sonnet 130

English poetry - the speaker describes all the lady’s flaws - he is lighthearted.