LITERARY FORMS

Question 1

• Way of categorizing literature based on its structure or purpose
• Set structure which helps readers to classify it

Answer 1

LITERARY FORMS`

Question 2

What:

rhythmic and aesthetic qualities of language

Answer 2

POETRY

Question 3

What:

scripted works for theatrical performance

Answer 3

DRAMA

Question 4

What:

including novels, novellas, and short stories

Answer 4

PROSE

Question 5

What:

FACTUAL writings such as essays, biographies, and journals

Answer 5

NON-FICTION

Question 6

• literature that conveys a thought, describes a scene or tells a story
• lyrical arrangement
• rhyming lines and meter

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POETRY

Question 7

• 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

Answer 7

TRUE

Question 8

• basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry
• number of syllables and pattern of emphasis on those syllables
• Iambic, trochee, anapest

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METER

Question 9

• 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

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STANZA

Question 10

• 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

Answer 10

RHYME

Question 11

WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF RHYMED POETIC FORMS?

Answer 11

1) RHYMED POETRY
2) BLANK VERSE
3) FREE VERSE

Question 12

WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF NARRATIVE POETIC FORMS?

Answer 12

1) EPICS
2) BALLAD

Question 13

WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF LYRIC POETIC FORMS?

Answer 13

1) ELEGY
2) ODE
3) SONNET

Question 14

in which all or some of the lines have a rhyme word at the end.

Answer 14

RHYMED POETRY

Question 15

• unrhymed verses
• poetry written with precise meter
• has the same number of syllables

Answer 15

BLANK VERSE

Question 16

• 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

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NARRATIVE POETRY

Question 17

• lengthy, narrative work of poetry
• extraordinary feats and adventures of characters from a distant past

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EPICS

Question 18

• narrative verse that can be either poetic or musical
• ABCB

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BALLAD

Question 19

Fourteen-line poem that usually uses a meter and rhyme scheme. and discusses the topic about love.

Answer 19

SONNET

Question 20

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

Answer 20

ELEGIES

Question 21

short lyric poem that praises an individual, an idea, or an event (mundane)

Answer 21

ODE

Question 22

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

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HAIKU

Question 23

exploring the relationship between humans and nature, and for romanticizing the ideals of a simple country life

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PASTORAL POETRY

Question 24

five-line poem that consists of a single stanza, an AABBA rhyme scheme, and whose subject is a short, pithy tale or description

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LIMERICK

Question 25

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.

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VILLANELLE

Question 26

• dialogue and performances
• performed in a theatre or radio or television.
• “drama” comes from a Greek word meaning “action”
• contains conflict of characters

Answer 26

DRAMA

Question 27

WHO ARE THE TWO ANCIENT GREEK MUSES?

Answer 27

MELPOMEN (TRAGEDY) AND THALIA (COMEDY)

Question 28

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

Answer 28

TRUE

Question 29

an emotional piece of literature which includes a story which is recited or sung.

Answer 29

DRAMA

Question 30

• lighter in tone than ordinary works and provide a happy conclusion
• quaint circumstances, unusual characters, and witty remarks

Answer 30

COMEDY

Question 31

• darker themes
• disaster, pain, and death
  “tragic flaw”

Answer 31

TRAGEDY

Question 32

• exaggerated drama
• characters are of a single dimension and simple, or may be stereotyped

Answer 32

MELODRAMA

Question 33

• monologue in which a character speaks to him or herself

Answer 33

SOLILOQUY