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Flashcards by Lauren Pos, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lauren Pos
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| How can caesura affect a poem? | Can disrupt the rhythm: 'O! Carve not thy hours', (Vocative O) Can slow the pace, A lack of caesura can quicken the pace, Can act as a method to pause and reflect. |
| What is quotidian language? | Ordinary language i.e. 'each in a separate bed' - the rooms of the lovers - ordinary. |
| What is this sentence an example of: 'I gave her food, shelter, water.' | Asyndetic listing. (when usual pronouns are missing) |
| What is an example of an Alexandrine? | John Donne's 'The Anniversary': final lines of each stanza are 12 syllables as opposed to 10. Donne uses it to show that his love knows no boundaries and does not answer to convention. |
| How can you identify an apostrophe? | It's a poem or speech directed towards a person or personified thing. Exclamatory. |
| What is the difference between a Petrarchan sonnet and a Shakespearean Sonnet? | Shakespearean sonnet ends on a rhyming couplet. Petrarchan sonnet rhyme: ABBABBA Shakespearean sonnet rhyme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
| What effect can repetition have within a poem? | Increases musicality and emotional appeal |
| How can you identify a Petrarchan sonnet from a Shakespearean? | Petrarchan is 14 lines with a rhyme scheme of ABBABBA Shakespearean is also 14 lines but the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
| What are paradoxical lines? | In Shakespearean sonnets, paradoxical lines are used at the end of the sonnet which contradicts the previous argument. Represents the contradictions that love breeds. |
| What effect do monosyllabic lines have on a poem? | Conveys intense emotion |
| What is antithesis? | Opposing words which create sharp and striking effects. |
| What is the effect of internal rhyme? | Emphasises the meanings of words along with having a unifying effect |
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