English 1022E Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Oxymoron, Spenserian Stanza, Rhyme Royal
8 Mar 2013
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English (shakespearean): quatrain 1 (abab) q 2 (cdcd) q 3 (efef) rhyming couplet (gg) Writing a sonnet proves your worth as a poet. Repetition of a word at beginning of lines. Word used at end of sentence and at beginning of next sentence. Repetition of a letter or sound in successive words. Repetition in reverse, the same or a modified order. Pause in the middle of the poem. Irony- an irony has no point, unless it is true, to some degree, in both senses . His first 130 sonnets could have been about a man. Careless reader thinks shakespeare is gay from sonnet 20. Master mistress- oxymoron: he is the best mistress, the master of mistresses. Best mistress because he"s not a woman. Man was supposed to be a woman, but nature fell in love and gave her a penis: unattainable mistress (as the head mistress would be) The penis is a vagina for him (nothing: master= man mistress= woman.
