Lancaster Final Exam Review

T: To Shakespeare

A: Ben Jonson

S: Ben Jonson

G: elegy

"He was not of an age, but for all time."

T: To John Donne

A: Ben Jonson

S: Ben Jonson

G: elegy

"...the delight of Phoebus and each Muse,/ Who to thy one, all other brains refuse;"

T: To John Donne

A: Ben Jonson

S: Ben Jonson

G: elegy

"To it thy language, letters, arts, best life,/ Which might with half mankind maintain a strife./ All which I meant to praise, and yet I would,/ But leave, because I cannot as I should."

T: To Shakespeare

A: Ben Jonson

S: Ben Jonson

G: elegy

"I will not lodge thee by/ Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie/ A little further to make thee a room:/ Thou art a monument without a tomb..."

T: To Shakespeare

A: Ben Jonson

S: Ben Jonson

G: elegy

"And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek,/ From thence to honor thee I would not seek/ For names..."

T: To Shakespeare

A: Ben Jonson

S: Ben Jonson

G: elegy

"But stay; I see thee in the hemisphere/ Advanced and made a constellation there!"

T: Valediction Forbidding Mourning

A: John Donne

S: John Donne

G: lyrical conceit/ valediction

"If they be two, they are two so/ As stiff twin compasses are two"

T: Holy Sonnet 14

A: John Donne

S: John Donne

G: sonnet

"That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me..."

T: Holy Sonnet 10

A: John Donne

S: John Donne

G: sonnet

"Death, thou shalt die"

T: Holy Sonnet 14

A: John Donne

S: John Donne

G: sonnet

"Batter my heart, Three-Personed God"

T: Meditation 17

A: John Donne

S: John Donne

G: sermon

"No man is an island entire of itself"

T: Paradise Lost

A: John Milton

S: narrator

G: epic poem

"What in me is dark/ Illumine, what is low raise and support;/ That to the height of this great argument/ I may assert Eternal Providence,/ And justify the ways of God to men."

T: Paradise Lost

A: John Milton

S: Satan

G: epic poem

"What though the field be lost?/ All is not lost; the unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ and courage never to submit or yield:/ And what is else not to be overcome?"

T: Paradise Lost

A: John Milton

S: Beelzebub

G: epic poem

"..for the mind and spirit remains/ invincible, and vigor soon returns,/ Though all our glory extinct, and happy state/ Here swallowed up in endless misery."

T: Paradise Lost

A: John Milton

S: Satan

G: epic poem

"Here at least/ We shall be free... Here we may reign secure, and in my choice/ To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:/ Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."

T: Sonnet 129

A: Shakespeare

S: Shakespeare

G: sonnet

"All this the world well knows; yet none knows well/ To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell."

T: Sonnet 130

A: Shakespeare

S: Shakespeare

G: sonnet

"I love to hear her speak, yet well I know/ That music hath a far more pleasing sound."

T: Sonnet 18

A: Shakespeare

S: Shakespeare

G: sonnet

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

T: Sonnet 29

A: Shakespeare

S: Shakespeare

G: sonnet

"Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,/ Haply I think on thee, and then my state,"

T: Sonnet 116

A: Shakespeare

S: Shakespeare

G: sonnet

"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,/ But bears it out even to the edge of doom."

T: Sonnet 73

A: Shakespeare

S: Shakespeare

G: sonnet

That time of year thou mayst in me behold

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang

T: Henry V

A: Shakespeare

S: Henry V

G: history play

"The mercy that was quick in us but late,/ By your own counsel is suppressed and killed./ You must not dare for shame talk of mercy;/ For your own reasons turn into your bosoms/ As dogs worrying you."

T: Henry V

A: Shakespeare

S: Henry V

G: history play

"How yet resolves the governor of the town?/ This is the latest parle we will admit:/ Therefore to our bst mercy give yourselves,/ Or, like to men proud of destruction,/ Defy us to our worst..."

T: Henry V

A: Shakespeare

S: Narrator

G: history play

"O for a muse of fire that would ascend/ The brightest heaven of invention;/ A kingdom for a stage, princes to act/ And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!... But pardon gentles all,/ The flat unraised spirits that hath dared/ On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth/ So great an object. Can this cockpit hold/ The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram/ Within this wooden O the very casques/ That did affright the air at Agincourt?/ O, Pardon!"

T: Henry V

A: Shakespeare

S: Montjoy

G: history play

"Your highness, lately sending into France,/ Did claim some certain dukedoms in the right/ Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third./ In answer of which claim, the prince our master/ Says that you savor too much of your youth,"

T: Henry V

A: Shakespeare

S: Exeter

G: history play

"From him, and thus he greets your majesty:/ He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,/ That you divest yourself, and lay apart/ The borrowed glories that by gift of heaven,/ By law of nature and of nations, 'longs/ To him and to his heirs- namely, the crown..."

sestet

six line stanza

octave

eight line stanza

couplet

two lines of poetry of the same length that usually rhyme

triplet

three line stanza

quintet

five line stanza

quatrain

four line stanza

septet

seven line stanza

iamb

unstressed-stressed

dactyl

stressed-unstressed-unstressed

anapest

unstressed-unstressed-stressed

trochee

stressed-unstressed

spondee

stressed-stressed

pyrrhic

unstressed-unstressed

monometer

1 foot per line of poetry

dimeter

2 foot per line of poetry

trimeter

3 foot per line of poetry

tetrameter

4 foot per line of poetry

pentameter

5 foot per line of poetry

hexameter

6 foot per line of poetry

heptameter

7 foot per line of poetry

octometer

8 foot per line of poetry

haiku

three-lined Japanese poem about nature w/ syllable scheme of 5-7-5

ballad

poem that tells a story

lyric

a short emotional poem that's meant to be sung

caesura

a dramatic pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry

enjambment

when a sentence continues from one line of poetry to the next

onomatopoeia

when a word sounds like its definition

assonance

repetition of vowels in a line of poetry

consonance

the general repetition of consonant sounds

alliteration

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

rhythm

the ordered or disordered occurrences of sound in poetry

repetition

the repeating of a word or phrase to create a sense of rhythm

volta

indicates a change of tone in a sonet

sonnet

a 14 line poem in iambic pentameter

internal rhyme

when rhyming words appear in the same line of poetry

rhymed verse

poetry with end rhyme, it usually has regular meter

end rhyme

rhyming words that appear at the end of two or more poetic lines

perfect rhyme

when the vowel and final consonant sounds of two words are identical

rhyme

the similarity or likeness of a sound existing between two words

free verse

poetry without regular meter or rhyme scheme

blank verse

unrhymed iambic pentameter

meter

patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables

syllable

smallest unit or sound in a word

stressed beat

loud syllable

unstressed beat

soft syllable

refrain

chorus; repetition of a phrase at the end of stanzas

heroic couplet

2 lines of poetry w/ perfect end rhyme containing a complete thought

canto

main division of a long poem

Style

The manner in which a writer puts his/her thoughts into words

Diction

Word choice

Denotation

The literal definition of a word

Literal Language

Language that is meant to be taken word for word

Connotation

Implied or suggested meaning of a word

Figurative Language

Language that is not meant to be taken literally

Used to create word pictures

Figure of Speech

Expression or word used imaginatively, not literally

Apostrophe

When a speaker addresses an absent person, quality, or idea

Hyperbole

An extreme exaggeration

Litotes

An extreme understatement

Irony

The difference between what is expected to happen as opposed to what actually happens

Dramatic Irony

When the audience knows something that a character does not

Situational Irony

The opposite of what is expected to happen occurs

Verbal Irony

When someone says the opposite of what they mean; sarcasm

Oxymoron

A juxtaposition of opposites

Ex: least favorite, random order

Paradox

A statement that seems contradictory but is really true

Ex: "I must be cruel to be kind."

Similie

Comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

Ex: This room is as cold as Antarctica.

Metaphor

Comparison of two unlike things without the use of "like" or "as"

Ex. You are my sunshine.

Synecdoche

When a part stands for a whole

Ex: wheels- car

Metonymy

When a characteristic of a thing stands for a whole

Ex: crown- royalty

Personification

Giving an non human object human qualities or characteristics

Ex: The leaves danced in the wind.

Tone

Attitude of the speaker

Mood

The emotional feeling of a work

Syntax

Word order

Theme

Central idea of a work

Motif

A recurring theme or convention in a work or a series of work