ELA B10 - Poetry Flashcards
What is a Ballad?
Simple in structure, impersonal in tone and tells a story stressing a basic theme (ex : love, death, and humour).
What is the ‘popular’ style of a Ballad?
It is widely varying and is anonymous in narrative.
What is the ‘literary’ style of a Ballad?
More polished imitation of a popular ballad by a known poet.
What is a Dramatic Monologue?
Dramatic of a character revealing themselves.
What is Dramatic Poetry?
Poetry that tells a story and stresses characterization types to invoke a emotional response.
What is an Elegy?
A poem or song mourning the dead.
What is an Epic?
Narrative poetry distinguished by its great length, historical action, and lofty style. The characters are normally of heroic proportions.
What is an Epigram?
A short poem ending in a witty turn of thought.
What is a Limerick?
A 5 line poem rhyming ABBA with the third and fourth line being shorted. Mostly humorous.
What is a Lyric?
A short and personal poem with an emotional character. The structure is most likely simple.
What is a Narrative Poem?
Narrative poems stresses plot and action. Has some characterization. The poet ignores their personal feelings.
What is an Ode?
Longer than a lyric and is more serious in tone. Has an impersonal theme.
What is a Pastoral?
A poem which deals in rural life.
What is a Sonnet?
A 14 lined in iambic pentameter, the rhyme scheme varies according to types.
What is Free Verse?
A verse without a fix pattern of rhyme or length.
What is Alliteration?
The repetition of sounds (and words).
What is Assonance?
Alliteration based on vowel.
What is Consonance?
Alliteration based on consonant.
What is Allusion?
Reference to a person, place, and event with historical significance.
What is a Smilie?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a Metaphor?
A comparison comparing two things.
What is Personification?
The process of giving human qualities to an object.
What is Connotation?
Implied meaning associated with a reward.
What is a Hyperbole?
An extreme exaggeration.
What is Repetition?
Repeating phrases or words multiple times.
What is Rhyme Scheme?
The similarity in sounds of words together.
What is Imagery?
The process of describing something.
What are the Types of Imagery?
Olfactory, Visually, Auditory, Gustatory and Tactile.
What is Olfactory Imagery?
Imagery of smells.
What is Visual Imagery?
Imagery of sights.
What is Auditory Imagery?
Imagery of sounds.
What is Gustatory Imagery?
Imagery of taste.
What is Tactile Imagery?
Imagery of touch/feeling.
What is Annotating Poetry?
The act of making up a text to bring attention to words, phrases, and structure.
What is the first step to annotating a poem?
- Read Once
- Find unknowns
- Find unknown word(s)’s definition
What is the second step to annotating a poem?
- Identify literary devices
(Does impact the text?) - Look at punctuation
(Does it reveal anything about the speak of the poem?) - Look at patterns (if there is any)
(What does it reveal about the speaker’s attitude?)
What is the third step to annotating a poem?
- What does the author saying in the each stanza?
- Is there any reason for the author to repeat text?
What is the fourth step to annotating a poem?
Repeat if poem is unclear.
Daffodils : What can you infer about the protagonist’s mood in the beginning of stanza one?
That they were not happy.
Daffodils : What does the protagonist see in stanza one?
A bed of golden daffodils.
Daffodils : Where was the daffodils located?
Beside a lake and under trees.
Daffodils : How does the narrator describe the daffodils in the beginning of the second stanza?
Stars that shine like in the Milky Way.
Daffodils : In the third stanza the protagonist feels ‘gay’. What does the poet mean?
They are a very happy.
Daffodils : What makes the poet mesmerized in stanzas two and three?
The daffodils swinging back and forth due to wind.
Daffodils : We learn in stanza four that the protagonist will never forget this experience? Why?
It was too blissful to forget.
The Cape : What type of literary device does the all stanzas use?
Visual imagery
The Cape : The protagonist is alone. We know this because of her referral to…?
Her horse going home.
The Cape : In stanza two the house is described to be?
Broken down and soggy from rain water.
The Cape : In the seventh stanza she does what to stabilize?
Drink coffee, reads all her books, and locates herself on a map.
The Cape : What does the protagonist say about her situation?
That she is afraid out there.
The Cape : How would you interpret this poem (class discussion)?
The protagonist is most likely to be a person in a mental institution. Thus feeling isolated from the rest of her family.
Mending Wall : What does the protagonist think of his neighbour’s wall?
That is too much of a hassle to take-care off.
Mending Wall : List the reasons the protagonist does not like the wall?
- Hunters disrepair it often
- It is a hassle to make sure it balances
- The wall has no purpose in his eyes
Mending Wall : Why does the protagonist think it is good to remove the wall?
(Metaphor)
- Their trees won’t clash with their trees
- If animals need to grazer, more space would be better
- No more hassle to take care off
Mending Wall : The neighbour ______ the wall. Unlike the protagonist.
Loves
Mending Wall : What type of poem is this?
Free Verse
Mending Wall : How would you interpret this poem (class discussion)?
Each person has their own type of political views. Thus a wall must be set to show boundaries of each other.
If You’re Strong-hearted : What literary device does the poem show a lot of?
Repetition
If You’re Strong-hearted : What is the first and second stanza’s message?
Don’t hold in what you want to say.
If You’re Strong-hearted : What is the third stanza’s message?
To appreciate nature and beauty.
If You’re Strong-hearted : What is the fourth stanza’s message?
To appreciate sounds and not be in fear.
White Squall : Where does this poem take place?
Town of Wiarton next to the Great Lakes
White Squall : What is the story of this poem?
Fisherman watching a young man lose his life during a bad storm and the aftermaths of his death.
White Squall : Why was there a storm?
Because the weather concerning the lakes are dangerous.
What tone does Crossing the Bar have?
An acceptance to death.
What tone does Death, Not be Proud have?
A hatred towards death.
Vagabond Song : What does Vagabond mean?
Wanderer with no set place to live.
Vagabond Song : What are Gypsies?
Nomadic people.
Vagabond Song : This poem can be summed up based on the protagonist love of _____?
Autumn and nature.
