Study Guide for Final -- pt. 3 -- EN 190 -- Summer 2012

The picture above is of Walt Whitman as a younger man.  The picture is from the 1855 edition of his Leaves of Grass.

Here is a list of terminology that may be on the exam:

silent film/movie

poem/poetry

free verse

blank verse

organic form

formal verse 

sonnet -- Shakespearean and Petrarchan

villanelle

iambic pentameter

stanza

alliteration

assonance

onomatopoeia

octet

sestet

line break:  full stop, end of phrase, enjambment

Below Petrarch contemplates his muse Laura.

 Below we see Shakespeare with the Dark Lady, subject of his poems.