Critical Vocabulary Builder A Abjure – To renounce or retract esp formally or under oath‚ or solemnly. Abduration – The act of renouncing. Ablation – The surgical removal of an organ‚ structure‚ or part. Ablate. Ablution - The ritual washing of a priest’s hands. Abnegate (abnegation) – To deny to oneself; renounce privileges‚ pleasure‚ etc. Abstergent – Of cleaning or scouring Abstruse – Not easy to understand; recondite; esoteric. Acalculia – psycol. An inability to make simple
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Beowulf 2. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” 3. Canterbury Tales “Prologue” 4. “The Pardoner’s Tale” from CT 5. Sonnets 6. Elements of Style author’s names Terms (know by definition‚ characteristics or example). 1. Kenning: two-word poetic renamings of people‚ places‚ and things such as the kenning whales’ home for the sea ex from Beowulf: “I have come so far‚ / Oh shelterer of warriors and your people’s loved friend‚ / That this one favor you should not refuse me.” 2. Alliteration:
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Based on Sider’s research‚ an elegy comes with many fragments and are mainly presented in the form of a poem. An elegy commemorates a deceased person’s life through a poetic expression of sorrow and melancholy. Older poets‚ around Milton’s time and even before never stepped out of the traditional way of writing an elegy. Later authors has brought other forms forward that has the key concepts distributed differently. For example‚ emotions. Not everyone reacts to‚pain or tragedy
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Marlowe shows his extreme handsomeness as feminine. "Some swore he was a maid in man’s attire" (line 85). Later‚ Marlowe describes him‚ however‚ in great detail‚ with a muscular‚ masculine figure. This feminization of Leander’s beauty was a Renaissance poetic convention. There was a limited vocabulary‚ at this time‚ for male attractiveness‚ and a feminine description was sometimes deemed necessary even when the subject was‚ perhaps‚ not as androgynous as it might seem. However‚ in this case the homoerotic
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courageous ‚ and guiding qualities through the use of metaphorical comparisons ‚ tone ‚ epithet ‚ repetition and wishes to make bold statement of love in the face of Time ‘s decay .The rigid fourteen lines of the sonnet are filled with an abundance of poetic and literary techniques that help to convey these main ideas (Grimes ‚2007 )O no ! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken It is the star to every wandering bark ‚Whose worth is unknown ‚ although his height be taken Love
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created perfection to strive for it. The most important line in this poem is “You strive to be “perfect.” This is the most important one because it represents the message that the author is trying to convey. I am going to now talk about four poetic devices that the author used in this poem. My first example is of hyperbole‚ “We spend every hour of every day‚ every day of every week”. This is an example of hyperbole because it is an exaggeration. Trying to
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In Estes’ critique‚ she says "One of the most important poetic devices at work in the poem is the tone: the speaker’s attitude toward the subject being described‚ the snake" (Estes‚ Angela). Snakes are not too pleasant to be around‚ and depending on which type of snake it is‚ a simple snake bite can even cause
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Slam Dunk and Hook by Yusef Komunyakaa Fast breaks. Lay ups. With Mercury’s Insignia on our sneakers‚ We outmaneuvered the footwork Of bad angels. Nothing but a hot Swish of strings like silk 5 Ten feet out. In the roundhouse Labyrinth our bodies Created‚ we could almost Last forever‚ poised in midair Like storybook sea monsters. 10 A high note hung there A long second. Off The rim. We’d corkscrew Up & dunk balls that exploded The skullcap of hope & good 15
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In Paris with You is recounted by a (thenarrator) whose relationship has just ended and who is now in Paris with someone else ("I’m on the rebound"). This suggests a long-term relationship has ended and the speaker is currently enjoying a less serious liaison. The narrator doesn’t want to examine the aftermath of the serious relationship: he doesn’t want to talk things over or even visit galleries or landmarks; he just wants to enjoy the moment rather than thinking of the future or the past. Structure
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Lodovico Ariosto Lodovico Ariosto is one of the great humanists of the Renaissance. He was poet from Italy who had a large impact on the Renaissance. Ariosto was born September 8‚ 1474 in Reggio Emilia Italy. He grew up in a neighboring city Ferrar and had a good education. His first teacher was Luca Ripa‚ who was a humanist and he taught Ariosto grammar and rhetoric. Ariosto’s father forced him to study law and he didn’t like it all‚ but his education came to an end when his father died in 1500
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