Form Flashcards
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Ballad
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- Arranged in quatrains
- ABAB rhyme scheme
- Narrative tone
2
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Blank Verse
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- Un-rhyming verse
- Iambic pentameter
- Consistent meter
- 10 syllables in each line
3
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Sonnet Form
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- Traditional form used to talk about love
- Conventional form of poetry
- Male established form
4
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Petrarchan Sonnet
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- 8 line octave followed by a sestet
- ABBA rhyme scheme
- Established by Petrarch -> Italian Sonnet Form
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Shakesperean Sonnet
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- ABAB rhyme scheme ending on a rhyming couplet
- Contains a volta at around line 9
- Rhyming couplet usually summarises and reafirms the poem/ poet’s ideas
6
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Dramatic Monologue
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•Type of poetry written in form of an individual character
7
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Free Verse
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- No fixed rhyme scheme
* No sense of rhythm/ meter
8
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Elegy
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- A poems written for the death of someone
* Lamenting tone to express loss
9
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Ode
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- Poem that praises people and natural/abstract scenery
- Lyrical in nature –> Follows a rhyme scheme
- No specific structure to rhyme
10
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What does an Ode explore?
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Used to explore themes and observations like:
• Human relations
• Emotions
• Senses
11
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Epic
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- Long narrative poem
* Usually about heroic deeds and events –> significant to culture of poet
12
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Lyric
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- Form of poetry which expresses personal emotions/feelings
- Spoken in first person
- Song like structure
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Narrative poem
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- Form = tells a story
- Makes use of the narrator/ character’s voice
- Usually written in metred verse
- Do not have to follow rhythmic patterns
