answer all the Vocabulary

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  • Vocabulary you should know: OctaveSestetQuatrainCoupletpentametersorrowful loverdisdainful ladyyoung blond aristocratrival poetdark lady poet as creatorPetrarch
    Petrarchan conceit

    metaphysical conceitsonnet sequenceparadoxblazonAnti-PetrarchanPlatonic love

    Pastoral

    Plain Style

    carpe diem

    invitation poem

    For a sonnet, be able to answer the following    :

  • Identify the speaker.
  • Describe the situation.
  • Label the rhyme scheme. What type of sonnet is it?
  • Scan two lines.
  • Locate examples of alliteration, assonance, consonance, enjambment, end-stopped lines.
  • Know characteristics of the epic and how Milton employs them in Paradise Lost.

    For Paradise Lost, know Milton’s ideas on the following:

    Satan
    Adam
    Eve
    Jesus
    God
    Eden
    Hell

    Based on the poems we have read since the midterm, think about how these writers would define the following:

    hell
    love
    beauty
    court life vs. country life
    plain style vs. metaphysical style