Thursday, September 3, 2009

Paige Words

Sonnet- a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Ex: The prologue in Romeo and Juliet.

Chorus

1 Two households, both alike in dignity,
2 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
3 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
4 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
6 A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
7 Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
8 Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
9 The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
10 And the continuance of their parents' rage,
11 Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
12 Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
13 The which if you with patient ears attend,
14 What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Overstatement- an exaggerated statement or account.
Ex: "I literally died." "I'd give my right arm for a piece of pizza."

1 comment:

  1. You might have a sonnet on the AP test. Could you pick out other examples.

    Overstatement is a form of verbal irony.

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