ENGL 311 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Rhyme, Mexico City Metro Lines, Italian Poetry
20 Nov 2018
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Sonnet) move onto the five-stress line: anglo- a(cid:454)o(cid:374)"s ha(cid:448)e the poetr(cid:455) of alliterati(cid:448)e (cid:373)eter, dispossessed and displaced of the british isles, next years of norman occupation are vicious, become the working-class, not the language of power anymore. God: line 7 rhymes internal rhyme, some rhyming sounds are internal in the line not at the end, heaven as a roof, metaphor, heaven is then a part of a building, middle earth, metaphor. 2018-09-07: not literal language becomes figurative and metaphorical. Chaucer was born into a middle-class merchant family and at about age fifteen became a page to the countess of ulster. While serving her husband, lionel (the second son of king edward iii), during the hundred years war, chaucer was captured at the siege of riems and eventually ransomed. In 1365, he married philippa roet, sister-in-law of the powerful nobleman john of. Gaunt, who was the uncle and advisor of king richard ii.
