Poetry II

Question 1

What are the theoretical perspectives?

Answer 1

1. Biographical approaches
2. Reader-focused approaches
3. Text-focused approaches
4. Context-focused approaches
5. Channel-focused approaches

Question 2

Channel-focused approach?

Answer 2

Media studies, theatre context

Question 3

Context-focused approach?

Answer 3

To what extent literary texts are rooted in the historical, political, economical, philosophical, religious, etc. contexts of their production

Question 4

Text-focused approach?

Answer 4

• literary work itself as an independent entity
• text as a coherent whole

Question 5

Reader-focused approach?

Answer 5

Relationship between reader and text

Question 6

Biographical approach?

Answer 6

Text as expression of author: focuses on author

Question 7

What is a stichic verse?

Answer 7

Continuous run of lines of the same length and the same metre. Most narrative verse is written in such continuous lines.

Question 8

What is a (heroic) couplet?

Answer 8

Two rhyming lines of verse following immediately after each other.
Heroic couplet: two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter

Question 9

What is a tercet?

Answer 9

A stanza with three lines of the same rhyme

Question 10

What is a quatrain?

Answer 10

Most common/popular stanza forms in English poetry
Stanza comprising four lines of verse with various rhyme patterns

Question 11

What is a heroic quatrain?

Answer 11

Iambic pentameter, rhyming abab

Question 12

What is a ballad stanza (chevy chase stanza)?

Answer 12

Variant of the quatrain
Lines of iambic tetra meter alternate with iambic trimeter
Rhyme scheme: abcb or abab

Question 13

What is a quintet?

Answer 13

Poetic form or stanza that contains five lines

Question 14

What is free verse?

Answer 14

Irregular patterns of stress and syllables

Question 15

What is a villanelle?

Answer 15

5 Tercets rhyming aba
Quatrain rhyming abaa

Question 16

What is a pastoral?

Answer 16

Work that idealises rural life and landscapes

Question 17

What is encoding?

Answer 17

To convey symbolically the capacity of poetry to encode ideology (J.D. Niles)

Question 18

What is decoding?

Answer 18

To discover the underlying meaning of decode the poems imagery

Question 19

What are poetry sub genres?

Answer 19

1. lyrical
2. Narrative
3. Dramatic
4. Didactic
5. Performance

Question 20

What are examples of performance poetry?

Answer 20

Rap and slam

Question 21

What are examples of didactic poetry?

Answer 21

Practical vs. Moral

Question 22

What is the purpose of a didactic poem?

Answer 22

Teach something, instructive

Question 23

What is an example for dramatic poetry?

Answer 23

Dramatic monologue

Question 24

What is a dramatic monologue?

Answer 24

Speaker (not the author) makes a speech and reveals his/her character

Question 25

What are examples for narrative poetry?

Answer 25

Epic poetry, ballad

Question 26

What is epic poetry?

Answer 26

Large scale (in length and topic)
Elevated use of language, supernatural elements

Question 27

What is a ballad?

Answer 27

Song, originally transmitted orally, tells a story
Form of folk poetry
Usually a four-line stanza, alternating tetra meter and trimeter

Question 28

What are examples for lyrical poetry?

Answer 28

Sonnet, ode, elegy

Question 29

What is an elegy?

Answer 29

Formal lament for the death of a particular person

Question 30

What is an ode?

Answer 30

Long lyric poem with a serious subject written in an elevated style