Elergy 🙏🏾 Flashcards
1
Q
What is an elegy ?
A
An elaborately formal lyric poem lamenting the death of a friend or public figure or reflecting seriously in a solemn subject
2
Q
What is an elegiac stanza
A
A quatrain of iambic pentameters rhyming abab
3
Q
What is incremental repetition?
A
A modern term for a device of repetition usually found in ballads, Chris baldick
