Renaissance
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- octave
- first 8 lines of Italian sonnet
- sonnet
- 14 line poem with strict format
- aside
- spoken to audience; we assume others on stage do not hear
- carpe diem
- Sieze the Day!
- pastoral
- idyllic, set in nature, country life is ideal
- Robert Herrick
- unconventional pastor, wrote lighthearted lyrics and famous carpe diem poems, suffered from politics
- English sonnet
- abab cdcd efef gg
- soliloquy
- spoken by a character alone on stage
- comedy
- happy ending; humor, parody or satire included
- sestet
- last six lines of Italian sonnet
- quatrain
- four line stanza, often has abcb rhyme
- tragic hero
- starts out with many good qualities but one flaw
- Andrew Marvell
- friends with both Cavaliers and Roundheads; saved Milton's life; carpe diem
- couplet
- two successive rhymed lines of poetry
- Ben Jonson
- friend and rival of Shakespeare; soldier; duels; followers called "Tribe of" and "Sons of"
- Elizabeth I
- supported the arts, strengthened the country, never married
- King James I
- supported the arts, appointed 54 scholars to do new version of Bible
- paradox
- sounds impossible but is actually true in situation given
- metaphysical poetry
- highly complex, includes extended metaphors, conceits, etc.
- motif
- an idea or image that is repeated often throughout a work
- blank verse
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- John Donne
- Metaphysical poet; wild young Jack/ pious John; dean of St. Paul's cathedral
- conceit
- makes a startlingly unusual or unexpected and extended comparison
- tragedy
- shows downfall of hero because of flaw; many deaths
- tragic flaw
- the weakness which brings the hero down
- Italian sonnet
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- William Shakespeare
- 154 sonnets, 2 long narrative poems, and 37 plays; "The Bard"
- John Milton
- composed epic poem while blind; Latin secretary for Cromwell; wanted to be God's poet