Forms of poetry Flashcards
1
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What are the typical features of a Sonnet?
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- 14 lines with a strict rhyme scheme
- Iambic pentameter
- Volta
- Has its origins in the Chivalric Courtly love tradition
2
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What makes a Petrarchan Sonnet?
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- 14 lines divided into an octave and a sestet
- Volta between the octave and the sestet
- ABBA ABBA CDE CDE or ABBA ABBA CDC DCD
3
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What makes an English sonnet?
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- 14 lines divided into an octave and a sestet
- ABBA ABBA CDDCEE
- Volta before final couplet
- Ends with a couplet
4
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What makes a Shakespearean sonnet?
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- 14 lines divided into 3 quatrains and a couplet
- ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
- Volta before final couplet
- Prior to Elizabethan era, the vast majority of sonnets concerned religion and worship. Shakespeare upended this tradition with poems that feature lust, homoeroticism, misogyny, infidelity and acrimony (bitterness or ill-feeling)
5
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What makes a Spenserian sonnet?
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- 14 lines divided into 3 quatrains and a couplet
- Rhyme scheme is linked throughout the quatrains
- ABAB BCBC CDCD EE
6
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What are the typical features of a free verse poem?
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- Popular style of modern poetry
- Has no particular lines, rhyme scheme or stanzas
7
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What are the typical features of a villanelle?
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- 19 lines
- 5 tercets and a quatrain
- ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA
- Line 1 is repeated in line 6, 12 and 18.
- Line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15 and 19
8
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What are the typical features of a lyric?
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A poem that expresses intense and personal feelings
9
Q
What are the typical features of an elegy?
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- A poem written for a loved one that has died
10
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What are the features of a ballad?
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- Typically tells a dramatic or emotional story
- 4 lines with a rhyme scheme of ABAB or ABCB
