ENG 106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lyric Poetry, Sestet, Quatrain

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 106
• Professor: Professor Caroll

Document Summary

Shepherds: latin for shepherd and both poems about shepherds. Virgil the roman: pastoral eclogues, set convections of pastoral. Poet uses metaphors, similes, or hyperboles to describe his lovers body. When a work of art refers to another work of art: ex: title of chinua achebe"s nigerian novel things fall apart is an allusion to. A lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme. Italian): the turn or the volta occurs between lines 8 and 9--a significant shift in the argument or tenor of the poem, english or shakespearean sonnet, developed by the earl of surrey and other english experimenters in the. Shakespearean sonnet happens in the final rhyming couplet, which functions as a conclusion, amplification, or even complete refutation of the previous 3 quatrains. Sonnet content: original subject is sexual/romantic love but authors often shift the topic in their poems.