ITT-3523 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mont Ventoux, Sestet, Petrarch

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Part i petrarch: the most used rhetorical device is the oxymoron i see with no eyes and shout without a tongue look at page 339, and the mythological allegory which he uses with apollo and. Daphne, and him to laura: a sonnet is a poem written in 14 lines. Petrarchan sonnets include two stanzas: an octave and a sestet. Alternatively, they can be written in three stanzas with two quatrains and a sestet. They are written in iambic pentameter with a typical rhyme scheme of abba abba cde cde. Petrarchan sonnets are most well-known for their subject matter of ideal love. In describing a subject"s beauty, petrarchan sonnets make use of extended metaphor and simile. Typically, the octave of a petrarchan sonnet sets up a question and the sestet attempts to answer it: st. augustine was a catholic saint who converted from a life of loose living to.

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