poetry 😭😭😭 Flashcards
- The most popular genres of poems were……..,………,……..,…….,…….,……… .
epic, ode, satire, elegy, epistle, and song
nearly every eighteenth-century poet at least thought of writing an epic To show their fealty to …………,……………
Homer and Vergil
what kind of poem is the rape of the Lock?
mock-epic
when was the rape of the Lock written?
1712, 1714
true or false:
Eighteenth-century poets had more success writing Epics than they did writing Odes.
false, odes than epics
a classical poem of a kind originally meant to be sung. typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular meter. is the definition of?
Odes
true or false:
Pindaric odes were used for personal and meditative themes
false, for exalted subjects.
true or false:
Horatian odes were used for various urbane, personal, and meditative themes
true.
true or false:
The nineteenth century was, of course, the golden age of satire.
false, The eighteenth century.
a poem that uses irony, humor, or exaggeration in order to criticize an aspect of contemporary society.
satirical poem
a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
Elegy
true or false:
Elegies in Latin and Greek were composed in elegiac couplets rather than the hexameter lines of the epic and the pastoral.
true.
true or false:
Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1751)
is an elegy for all “high class” and not obscure men.
false, is an elegy for all “average” and obscure men.
a poem or other literary work in the form of a letter or series of letters.
Epistles
true or false:
Virgil provided the classical model for the verse epistle.
false, Horace
true or false:
The epistle, or verse letter, was an important form in the eighteenth century, reached its height in the epistles of Pope in the 1740s, and continued to be popular until the end of the nineteenth century.
false, , an important form in the seventeenth
century
true or false:
all epistles were written in heroic couplets
true.
…………………used the song to achieve brevity and, at times, elegance.
lyric poetry.
but the greatest of the songwriters………………came at the end.
a) William Somerville b)Robert Burns (1759-1796)
c)Mark Akenside
b)Robert Burns (1759-1796)
“a short poem or phrase that expresses an idea in a clever or humorous way”
Epigrams
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” – Alexander Pope
is an example of :
a) a quote
b) lyric poetry
c) Epigram
c) Epigram
Epigrams began in the 18th century. true or false?
false, began in the Renaissance
The average epigram was at most ………… lines long, beginning with something to arouse curiosity or anticipation and closing with humor or surprise.
a) nine
b) eight
c) six
c) six
Gay’s Fables (1727, 1738) was targeted toward children.
false, Far from being childlike, Gay’s Fables (1727, 1738) expressed a disillusioned cynicism toward humankind, particularly emphasizing foolish human pride.
narrative form, usually featuring animals that behave and speak as human beings, told in order to highlight human follies and weaknesses.
fables
The favorite form for the fables was……………….. couplet.
a) iambic tetrameter
b) iambic pentameter
c) Heroic
a) iambic tetrameter
William Somerville (The Chace, 1735),
Henry Brooke (Universal Beauty, 1735),
), Mark Akenside (The Pleasures of the Imagination, 1744), and Young (Night-Thoughts),
are all examples of………………..
Didactic poetry
Thomas Warton’s celebratory “The Pleasures of Melancholy” (1747) avoided the didacticism of some of Milton’s followers and cultivated relaxed and idyllic moods instead. true or false?
true.
sensibility was in the later half of the eighteenth century. true or false?
false, in the first half of the eighteenth century
The latter half of the century produced a transition period from the nobility and potential of the individual to concentration on society as the preserver of the best in humanity. true or false?
false, اعكسها😊😊
Thomas Warton, the elder, wrote “A Runic Ode,” and Thomas Warton, the younger, wrote three volumes on the history of English poetry from the twelfth to the close of the sixteenth century (1774-1781).
were written in the style of
a) Gothicism
b)Didactic poetry
c)The nature of humankind
a) Gothicism
Henry Carey’s Sally in Our Alley,
Gay’s ’Twas When the Seas Were Roaring (1715)
were in the forms of:
a) lyric poetry
b) didactic poetry
c) ballads
c) ballads
Thomas Percy’s collection, Reliques of Ancient Poetry, in 1765. was a type of ……………
ballad.
Cowper’s “The Diverting History of John Gilpin” was a …………… in the later part of the century.
ballad
Isaac Watts wrote Divine and Moral Songs for Children (1715) was a type of ……………
Children’s poetry
Blake
wrote Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) specifically for ……………….
children.
john dryden died in……………….
1700
john dryden death signaled a dramatic change in poetic style . true or false?
false, poets walked in his footsteps, moving away from metaphysical conceits
18 century poets had a passion for order and regularization. t or f?
t
common restoration subjects like imperious mistress and the cacophony of critics was no longer used. true or false?
false, continue to be used
heroic couplets and lampoons and political satire we written through out the 1800 hundreds. T or F ?
f,1700
