Poetry Theory

Question 1

What is the rhythm of a ballad

Answer 1

Has its origin in song- strong rhythm and lyricism. The story is fast-moving strong and singsong, with word easy to remember and recite.

Question 2

What is the content of a ballad

Answer 2

Usually a traditional folktale, which would have been passed down orally through the generations.

Question 3

What is the metre of a ballad

Answer 3

It is often iambic

Question 4

Metre

Answer 4

Syllables in a line

Question 5

What is an epic

Answer 5

A long narrative poem

Question 6

What I’d the content of an epic

Answer 6

Usually a heroic deed, event or person

Question 7

What kind of language is used in an epic

Answer 7

Grand, lofty language (an admiring tone) uses a lot of figurative language

Question 8

What is an allegory

Answer 8

A long poem focussed on narrative. It uses lots of figurative language- and extended image is used throughout

Question 9

What is the content of an allegory

Answer 9

It often has a strong moral or religious focus- often offering advise or warning

Question 10

What it a lyric

Answer 10

Original in song

Question 11

What is the content of a lyric

Answer 11

It centres on events, but has a strong emotional focus

Question 12

How long is a lyric

Answer 12

Generally short, focussed on a single theme or idea

Question 13

What language is used in a lyric

Answer 13

Emotive language

Question 14

What Is the tone of a lyric

Answer 14

Sincere

Question 15

What is an ode

Answer 15

It commemorates something specific and special.

Question 16

Why is an ode written

Answer 16

To honour a person or event

Question 17

What is the intention of an ode

Answer 17

To admire, to praise, to pay tribute, to celebrate something/someone

Question 18

What is the tone of an ode

Answer 18

Lofty and admiring

Question 19

What language is used in an ode

Answer 19

Figurative and descriptive language.

Question 20

What is an elegy

Answer 20

A song o mourning

Question 21

What does an elegy do

Answer 21

It honours someone who has dies, or something that has gone or ceased to be

Question 22

What is the tone of an elegy

Answer 22

Serious, respectful and mournful

Question 23

What is the rhythm of an elegy

Answer 23

Slow and deliberate

Question 24

What is the structure of a Shakespearian sonnet

Answer 24

14 lines
3 quatrains
A rhyming couplet

Question 25

What is the rhyme scheme of a shakespearian sonnet

Answer 25

Abab cdcd efef gg

Question 26

What does the rhyming couplet of a shakespearian sonnet to

Answer 26

It lends a sense of finality and decisiveness to the clinching arguement of the post. It is the major point of the poem

Question 27

What is the structure of an Italian/ Petra England sonnet

Answer 27

It has 14 lines
An octave
A sestet

Question 28

What happens between the sestet and the octave

Answer 28

A change in tone

Question 29

What are some different changes in the Italian/ Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 29

Argumentative, or a problem and solution, or chaos he and answer, or from negative to positive

Question 30

What is the rhyme scheme of an Italian/ Petrarchan sonnet

Answer 30

Abba abba

Cde cde