World War I

4 important questions on World War I

Describe tone of voice

The tone of a poem is the attitude you feel in it — the writer's attitude toward the subject or audience.
In a satire, you feel irony.
In an anti-war poem, you may feel protest or moral indignation.

Describe French rondeau


—Threestanzas with a total of fifteen lines.
—Lines 9 and 15 are the same and do not rhyme with other lines.
—All lines (except 9 and 15) have eight syllables


—The rhyme scheme: aabba, aabc, aabbac

Describe the literary term: persona

A character taken on by a poet to speak in a first-person poem.
A poet may use ‘I’, but he/she may not refer to him/herself.
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What are run-on lines?

The continuing of a sentence from one line of a poem into the start of the next line. It is also called enjambement.

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