Poetic Forms, Styles, Devices, etc.

Question 1

Ballad

Answer 1

1. narrative; tells a story
2. lyrical; uses:
   
   • rhyme
   • meter (shorter lines, 4 stresses or less
3. two types of language:
   
   • descriptive
   • narrative

Question 2

Narrative

Answer 2

• tells a substantial narrative
• usually a long form
• no definite from, but usually some degree of rhyme or meter

Question 3

Confessional

Answer 3

• deals with facts and intimate experiences of poets own life presented in a mixtur of description and meditation
• autobiographical language
• description: concrete, sensuous images
• meditation: thoughts, feelings

Question 4

Elegy

Answer 4

• commerates the death of someone

Question 5

Italian Sonnet

Answer 5

1. 14 lines of iambic pentameter
2. octet: [ABBAABBA] + sestet: [CDECDE] or [CDDECE] or [CDCDCD] etc.

Question 6

Ode

Answer 6

1. lyrical
2. offers prais to a person or thing
3. elevated tone, pholosophical ideas, enthusiastic praise

Question 7

Rhyme Royal

Answer 7

• stanza form
• 7 lines iam pent
• ABABBCC

Question 8

English Sonnet

Answer 8

1. 14 lines of iam pen
2. 3 quatrains [ABABCDCDEFEF] + couplet [GG]

Question 9

Spenserian Stanza

Answer 9

1. 9 lines: 8 iam pent, last 1 iam hex
2. ABABBCBCC

Question 10

Folk Hero

Answer 10

1. pity
2. admiration
3. particular to Wordsworth

Question 11

Apostrophe

Answer 11

• speaker directly adresses something/someone in the poem

Question 12

Panentheism

Answer 12

nature created

Question 13

Pantheism

Answer 13

nature worshiped

Question 14

Internal Rhyme

Answer 14

rhyme within a line

Question 15

Horatian Ode

Answer 15

• lyrical ode with short regular stanzas
• tranquil and reflective

Question 16

Wordsworth’s Technique

Answer 16

1. Make the ordinary seem extraordinary
2. Color with imagination

Question 17

Coleridge’s Technique

Answer 17

• portray the supernatural in way that shows real human emotions and reactions as it would occur if it was encountered in real life