Summary: Poetry-I

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  • Describe the term Stanza

    A stanza in a poem is the same as a paragraph(alinea) in a text.
  • Describe the term Sonnet

    A rhyme scheme.
    - Always 14 lines.
    - Each line has 10 syllables called iambic pentameter.
    - A sonnet consists of 3 quatrains and a couplet.
    - Characterised by a 'turn' at a designated point.
  • Describe a Shakespearean sonnet

    abab cdcd efef gg
    Is different to a Petrarchan sonnet (Francesco Petrarca)
  • What is a sestet?

    6 lines of rhyming poetry.
    Italian sonnets consist of an octave and a sestet.
  • Describe iambic pentameter

    A line of poetry containing 5 times 'da-DUM'
    Penta = 5
    iambic: every 2nd syllable is stressed.
    iamb =  da-DUM
    pentameter: the iamb repeats 5 times.
  • What is a metaphor?

    A comparison where you say something is something else, two unrelated things identified as the same. 
    "Love is a rose"
    "He is a pig"
    "All the world's is a stage" (Shakespeare)
  • What is a simile?

    A comparison between 2 things using 'like' or 'as'
    'As tall as a giraffe, as smelly as dirty socks, sweet as a honeybee'
  • What is a volta?

    The point where a sonnet changes (turns) what it's talking about.
    in English poems, it happens in every couplet.
    In Italian poems every sestet.
  • What is a three-line stanza?

    A tercet
  • What is a five-line stanza?

    A cinquain, or quintet
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