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| repition of first consonant letters (Dunkin Donuts) |
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| break in different lines of poetry ------- -------- |
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| hyphenated metaphor(whale- Road= ocean road, whale for ocean) |
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| metaphorical re naming (nick name, four eyes) |
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| a short poem with one speaker (not necessarily the poet) who expresses thought and feeling |
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- Trageic events
- Songlike poems
- Tells stories in a simple rhythmic language
- Don’t have a lot of detail
- Have a refrian- repeated lines
- Repitition (verse refrain, verse refrian)
- Derived from a Old French "Dancing song"
- Youth- current phrases "Make my bed" means preparing for death"
- Strong simple beat - to remember it
- (Formula in a Ballad) ABCB
- Quatrain- four stresses , then lines of three stresses
- Makes it standard (all rythms the same)
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| parable a story with a lesson, Pardoner tells his story that way, lesson- so give up money to him. |
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story within a story
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- Outer- prologue- people gathered going on pilgramage
- Inner- tales, stories that people tell
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14lines
- Iambic pentamter
- Renaissance poetry form
- Format
- Petrarchan (Italian)
- Octave then sestet
- Abba abba( problem)
- cdcdcd or cde cde (solution to problem)
- Shakespearean (english)
- 3 quatrains and couplet
- Abab cdcd efef (problem)
- gg (solution)
- Context - Love
- Written in Sonnet sequence (detail love affair with a women)
- All had same formula
- Man sees women from a far and she is beautiful and have not spoken
- Madly in love and tries to get her. More he pursues more she rejects
- Breaks down and then they finally fall in love.
- Written to the person. Like a love letter.
- Sonnets fit together to tell the story. Like an episode a week.
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an object representing an impartial emotion or feeling
something having value
a set of symbols |
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| giving human traits to unhuman things |
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| obivous contradiction, but reveals a universal truth |
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range of knowledge and interests
the character or state of being universal; existence or prevalence everywhere.
pretaining to and understood by all. representing everyone. |
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| comparison not using like or as |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| say something to the audience or another actor but other characters on stage do not hear them |
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| one person on stage alone telling audience his thoughts, thinking out loud |
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| 2 opposite characters play off each other in order to emphasize each other's characteristics |
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something is serious and funny thing happens to lighten the mood
ex. porter in macbeth |
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| audience knows something that characters dont |
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| opposite of what you mean |
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| situation that is not expected and turns out differently |
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| critizing characters and their stereotypes, insulting person, (read between the lines) |
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