Poetic terminology - AO1

Question 1

Ballad

Answer 1

A song that tells a story - Verse form is a simple AB, AB, rhyme structure with simple rhythms.

Question 2

Classical or neo - classical

Answer 2

Believe all art or writing should imitate precedents and genres created by the writers or artists of the classic civilisations of Greece and Rome.

Question 3

Effusion

Answer 3

Spontaneous expression - Concept valued by Romantics.

Question 4

Elegy

Answer 4

A poem lamenting the dead.

Question 5

Epic

Answer 5

A poem concerning large events of conflict - seen as displaying and testing the values of the civilisation that produced it.

Question 6

Epithalamium

Answer 6

A poem celebrating a wedding.

Question 7

Mock - Epic

Answer 7

Employs the devices of an epic to create a parody of the epic’s grandeur.

Question 8

Ode

Answer 8

A lyric address, originally sung to music.

Question 9

Pastoral

Answer 9

An idealised depiction of rural life.

Question 10

Romantic

Answer 10

Applied to movements in 18th century onwards who valued feelings above thought and originality.

Question 11

Sonnet

Answer 11

Generally refers to 14 line poem with a strict rhyme scheme. Shakesperean sonnets usually end with a couplet.

Question 12

Lyric

Answer 12

Words designed to be sung.