Petrarchan sonnet – 14 lines , Heroic couplets – form
Poets use: Types
rhyming scheme abba, abba, of poetry where the
cde, cde, divided into a octave lines rhyme in pairs
(first 8 lines) and sestet (last 6
Shakespearean sonnet = 14
Use language to lines
lines, 3 sections – quatrains – Courtly love – tradition in
portray what they with 4 lines each, final part –
Sound effects – poetry where men wrote
are trying to say. rhyming couplet – with 2
rhythm and Free verse = lines do not rhyme in a regular ardent love poems to
lines which rhyme, women, often naming the
rhyme scheme – To make the poetry sound like
contrasting point is reached woman as their inspiration
normal conversation
Useful way to start here, has the function of
understanding what wrapping up the argument.
they are trying to say love is the dominant theme.
Poetry Rhyming scheme abab, cdcd,
Figures of Speech efef, gg.
Prose = words that extend from the
left to right margin and then
continue on the next line Oxymoron = poetic
arrangement of words to
create a paradoxical
expression, which Elizabethan sonnet = rhyme
combines two terms, scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg
which in everyday use are
opposites
Irony = the technique of
Personification = giving
Alliteration = deliberate Pun: a play on words that implying exactly the opposite of
inanimate objects human
repetition of consonants at may sound the same but are what is being said. The meaning
qualities
the beginning of words placed very different in meaning of something differs from what
Assonance
close = similarity in the
together it appears to be
vowel sounds of words that
In poetry the sentences do not go all
are close together
the way to the end – what allows the Metaphor = direct
poet to use rhyme. comparison between two
things
Synonym = two
Paradox = a contradiction in terms; words/phrases that mean the Simile = comparison
words with an implication that is same between two things using
opposite to their meaning. like or as
Poets use: Types
rhyming scheme abba, abba, of poetry where the
cde, cde, divided into a octave lines rhyme in pairs
(first 8 lines) and sestet (last 6
Shakespearean sonnet = 14
Use language to lines
lines, 3 sections – quatrains – Courtly love – tradition in
portray what they with 4 lines each, final part –
Sound effects – poetry where men wrote
are trying to say. rhyming couplet – with 2
rhythm and Free verse = lines do not rhyme in a regular ardent love poems to
lines which rhyme, women, often naming the
rhyme scheme – To make the poetry sound like
contrasting point is reached woman as their inspiration
normal conversation
Useful way to start here, has the function of
understanding what wrapping up the argument.
they are trying to say love is the dominant theme.
Poetry Rhyming scheme abab, cdcd,
Figures of Speech efef, gg.
Prose = words that extend from the
left to right margin and then
continue on the next line Oxymoron = poetic
arrangement of words to
create a paradoxical
expression, which Elizabethan sonnet = rhyme
combines two terms, scheme abab, cdcd, efef, gg
which in everyday use are
opposites
Irony = the technique of
Personification = giving
Alliteration = deliberate Pun: a play on words that implying exactly the opposite of
inanimate objects human
repetition of consonants at may sound the same but are what is being said. The meaning
qualities
the beginning of words placed very different in meaning of something differs from what
Assonance
close = similarity in the
together it appears to be
vowel sounds of words that
In poetry the sentences do not go all
are close together
the way to the end – what allows the Metaphor = direct
poet to use rhyme. comparison between two
things
Synonym = two
Paradox = a contradiction in terms; words/phrases that mean the Simile = comparison
words with an implication that is same between two things using
opposite to their meaning. like or as
