immediately continued which in this case brings the text to life and also helps the reader understand that there is discrimination occurring against the Jews by causing a pause affect. These same narrative techniques are used in other texts such as “Sonnet 29” and also a speech by Ben Franklin. They also incorporate these purposeful narrative techniques to bring meaning to the
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April Fabro English 200B Professor Taufer 29 May 2012 An Explication of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 12 When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, Then of thy beauty do
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Terza Rima: A type of poem mainly used by Dante Alighieri, aba, bcb, cdc, ded etc. ● Exemplum: A sermon, story with a moral ● Frame Story: A story Within a Story Keynote Notes ● Shakespeare Historical Look ○ 15641616 ○ died of Typhus fever at age 52 ○ noted for writing 154 sonnets ○ wrote 37 plays 10 historical, 17 comedies, and 10 tragedies ○ playhouse: Globe Theater ○ acting company The Lord Chamberlain’s Men ○ Buried in Holy Trinity Church, StrattforduponAvon ○ cursed those who dared to move his body (it was customary to dig up a person’s
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Honors Poetry Terms: MEMORIZE! 1. Allegory- A story in which the characters, settings, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts 2. Alliteration- The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another at beginning of words. 3. Allusion- Reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, history 4. Anapestic- A foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual
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By 1564, six of his plays had already been produced. In the late 1590’s, many of William Shakspere’s works were written. Although a lot of Shakesprear's sonnets are popular, his reputation primarily comes from his plays. William Shakspere became fully involved in writing plays as soon as the theatres reopened. They often performed in The Globe. The play that was first performed in The Globe was the tragedy
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ExpAQAPoetryClusters4Relationships_pp125-156_FINAL_Layout 1 28/05/2010 13:32 Page 125 Cluster 4 Relationships Different types of relationship are the focus of this cluster. Some poems, such as ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘Hour’, deal with the positive and/or negative emotions inherent in romantic relationships. Some deal with family relationships and the complex feelings that can be experienced by parents and children, or brothers and sisters, as in ‘Nettles’ and ‘Harmonium’ or ‘Brothers’ and ‘Sister
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VICTORIAN POETS by Viktoria Andujar Its very tough to pick two Victorian novelists to write about because they’re all so beautiful. Alas I must though and I picked Elizabeth Browning and Charles Dickens because they were the most impactful Victorian era male and female poets. I will be talking about their lives and their literature. I hope this essay will be much informative of the two. Now Charles Dickens took life in his story way beyond more than just imagining it. He talks about the sounds
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In the early 1800s, Mary Graham and Edward Barrett got married and purchased 500 acres of land that they called “Hope End”. The land was located in Kelloe, Durham County, England and it instantly felt like home to them. Their family fortune accrued from Sugar plantations in Jamaica that Edward owned along with many slaves that worked on it. On March 6, 1806, they had their first child. It was a little girl they named Elizabeth. After Elizabeth was conceived, their family grew by eleven more boys
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The fireside poets wrote their poetry in such a way that families would gather around the fireplace and read them to each other. They were written so that they were easy to memorize and recite. The poets wrote in standard forms, regular meter and rhymed stanzas. Some of the subject matter was about daily life, mythology, and even politics in the United States. A couple of poets wrote their best poetry due to personal tragedy that they had suffered in their own personal lives. While this subject
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