Quatrain - Stanza

AP VOCABULARY

QUATRAIN• Definition: A poetic stanza of four lines.

• Example: “Leap Before You Look” – W.H. Auden

The sense of danger must not disappear:

The way is certainly both short and steep,

However gradual it looks from here;

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

REALISM• Definition: The practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without

idealization and with attention to detail.

• Example: Walt Whitman “Leaves of Grass”.

REFRAIN• Definition: A repeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song.

• Example:

In another life I would be your girlWe keep all our promises be us against the worldIn another life I would make you staySo I don't have to say you were the one that got awayThe one that got away.

RHETORICAL QUESTION• Definition: A question that is asked simply for stylistic effect and is not expected to be

answered.

• Example: May I ask a rhetorical question?

RHYME• Definition: The repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines.

• Example:

The Mountain by Donna Brock

The mountain Frames the sky

As a shadow of an eagle flies by

With could hanging at its edge

A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge

RHYTHM• Definition: The modulation of weak and strong (stressed and unstressed) elements in the

flow of speech.

RISING ACTION• Definition: development of actions and problems

• Examples: Huckleberry Finn’s adventures on the river

SARCASM• Definition: verbal irony designed to lampoon

• Example: dialouge

SATIRE• Definition: work which makes fun of a person, society, culture, tendency, or event

• Examples: Candide, The Inferno

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SCANSION• Definition: graphical analysis of meter and rhyme

• Example: The Raven

SETTING• Definition: place and time in which the story takes place

• Example: The Brother’s Karmazov

SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET• 3 4-line units

• 1 final 2-line unit

• abab cdcd efef gg ryhme schme

• Example: Sonnett #127

SHAPED VERSE• Definition: poem written to resemble and object

• Example: adaptation of The Raven

The Raven Edger Allen Poe

SIMILE• Definition: direct comparison using the word ‘like’ or ‘as’

• Example: “I am like a grave” Dmitri Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov

SOLILOQUY• Definition: a character’s monologue to themselves

• Example: Hamlet’s soliloguy

SPEAKER• Definition: person speaking in a poem

• Example: A Study of Reading Habits

STANZA• Definition: section of a poem organized by thought and designated by addition line breaks

and usually by changes in rhyme

• Example: Inferno

Welcome!

The Topic For Today Is…

VocabularyDefinitions Words Examples

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Final Jeopardy

Define: 200• Question:• What is sarcasm?• Answer• Verbal irony designed to lampoon

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Define: 400• Question:• What is the rising action?• Answer• Development of the action and problems

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Define: 600• Question: • What is a refrain?• Answer• A stanza or line that is repeated

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Define: 800• Question: • What is realism?• Answer• Realistic description of surroundings and daily

life without embellishment

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Define: 1000• Question:• What is a soliloquy?• Answer• A character's monologue to themselves

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Words: 200• Question:• What term refers to the analysis of meter

through a graphic?• Answer• Scansion

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Words: 400• Question:• What term refers to the time and place of a

story?• Answer• Setting

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Words: 600• Question: • This poem contains four line paragraphs• Answer• Quatrain

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Words: 800• Question:• Which term refers to the emphasis of stressed

and unstressed syllables in flow of speech?• Answer• Rhythm

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Words: 1000• Question:• What term, similar in meaning to narrator,

means the person speaking in a poem?• Answer• Speaker

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• Question:• The following is an example of what type of

poetry?• Answer• Shakespearean Sonnet

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EX: 200

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EX: 400• Question:• The following is an example of what?

• Answer• Satire

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EX: 600• Question:• What term is emphasized in this example:

Little Miss MuffetSat on a tuffet,Eating of curds and whey;There came a big spider,And sat down beside her,And frightened Miss Muffet away

• Answer• Rhyme

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EX: ???• Question:• What type of poem is the following? Name

one element of figurative language used in it.• Answer• Shaped verse and simile

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EX: 1000• Question:• What term is emphasized in this example:• “Can I ask you a question?”• Answer• Rhetorical question

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Final Jeopardy• Task:• Create an example which uses at least three of

the terms mentioned in this presentation.• Answer• …• Say your example

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Daily Double

The Winner Of The Last RoundWrite Down How Much Money

You Are Willing To RiskIf You get the Question write you win that money

If you get it wrong you Lose the money!

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Example• “O! from what power hast thou this powerful might,

With insufficiency my heart to sway?To make me give the lie to my true sight,And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,That in the very refuse of thy deedsThere is such strength and warrantise of skill,That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?Who taught thee how to make me love thee more,The more I hear and see just cause of hate?O! though I love what others do abhor,With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:If thy unworthiness raised love in me,

More worthy I to be beloved of thee.”

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