lit terms: genre 2

Question 1

Elegy

Answer 1

A type of literature defined as a song or poem, written in elegiac couplets, that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died

Question 2

Epic

Answer 2

A long poem in a lofty style about the exploits of heroic figures. These often come from an oral tradition of shared authorship or from a single high profile poet imitating the style

Question 3

Lyric

Answer 3

A song like poem written mainly to express the feelings of emotions or thought from a particular person, thus separating it from narrative poems

Question 4

Narrative poem

Answer 4

A poem that tells a story.

Question 5

Ode

Answer 5

Usually a lyric poem of moderate length, with a serious subject, elevated style, and elaborate stanza pattern

Question 6

Sonnet

Answer 6

A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types-the Italian or the English

Question 7

Ballad

Answer 7

A narrative folk song. The ballad is traced back to the Middle Ages and were usually created due to the illiteracy of the time