LITERARY FORMS Flashcards
- Way of categorizing literature based on its structure or purpose
- Set structure which helps readers to classify it
LITERARY FORMS`
What:
rhythmic and aesthetic qualities of language
POETRY
What:
scripted works for theatrical performance
DRAMA
What:
including novels, novellas, and short stories
PROSE
What:
FACTUAL writings such as essays, biographies, and journals
NON-FICTION
- literature that conveys a thought, describes a scene or tells a story
- lyrical arrangement
- rhyming lines and meter
POETRY
- Poetry is Universal
- Poetry is an Oral/ Performative Art
- Poetry is a memorability technology
- Poetry is a formal and metrical art
- Poetry is a sacred art
TRUE
- basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry
- number of syllables and pattern of emphasis on those syllables
- Iambic, trochee, anapest
METER
- unit of poetry - lines that relate to a similar thought or topic.
- each stanza has its own concept and serves a unique purpose
- “stanza” - room
STANZA
- pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza
- patterns are encoded by letters
- ABAB, ABBA, AAAA, AABB
- internal, slant, identical, eye
- HELPS CREATE A MOOD
RHYME
WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF RHYMED POETIC FORMS?
1) RHYMED POETRY
2) BLANK VERSE
3) FREE VERSE
WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF NARRATIVE POETIC FORMS?
1) EPICS
2) BALLAD
WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF LYRIC POETIC FORMS?
1) ELEGY
2) ODE
3) SONNET
in which all or some of the lines have a rhyme word at the end.
RHYMED POETRY
- unrhymed verses
- poetry written with precise meter
- has the same number of syllables
BLANK VERSE
- Tells a story with a plot, characters, and a setting.
- It is one of the oldest and most straightforward forms of poetry. - It tells a story, often in a chronological sequence
NARRATIVE POETRY
- lengthy, narrative work of poetry
- extraordinary feats and adventures of characters from a distant past
EPICS
- narrative verse that can be either poetic or musical
- ABCB
BALLAD
Fourteen-line poem that usually uses a meter and rhyme scheme. and discusses the topic about love.
SONNET
very often about someone who has died, but it might also be something that has died, say, a feeling, or a relationship
elegies are an expression on the occasion of loss generally
ELEGIES
short lyric poem that praises an individual, an idea, or an event (mundane)
ODE
a three-line poetic form originating in Japan, that uses 5-7-5 pattern, hokku served to begin a longer poem by establishing a season
HAIKU
exploring the relationship between humans and nature, and for romanticizing the ideals of a simple country life
PASTORAL POETRY
five-line poem that consists of a single stanza, an AABBA rhyme scheme, and whose subject is a short, pithy tale or description
LIMERICK
specific poetic form that uses repeated lines and a strict rhyming pattern (ABA, ABAA) throughout its 19 lines, which are grouped into six separate stanzas. Usually about obsession and intense topic.
VILLANELLE
- dialogue and performances
- performed in a theatre or radio or television.
- “drama” comes from a Greek word meaning “action”
- contains conflict of characters
DRAMA
WHO ARE THE TWO ANCIENT GREEK MUSES?
MELPOMEN (TRAGEDY) AND THALIA (COMEDY)
HISTORY OF DRAMA
- Religious in nature, rooted with the Greek god Dionysius
- Choral presentation, with costumes
- Eventually, people take specific roles
- Festival of Dionysia (music, poetry, dance)
- Thespis won by reciting poems and enacting characters
TRUE
an emotional piece of literature which includes a story which is recited or sung.
DRAMA
- lighter in tone than ordinary works and provide a happy conclusion
- quaint circumstances, unusual characters, and witty remarks
COMEDY
- darker themes
- disaster, pain, and death
“tragic flaw”
TRAGEDY
- exaggerated drama
- characters are of a single dimension and simple, or may be stereotyped
MELODRAMA
- monologue in which a character speaks to him or herself
SOLILOQUY
