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Question 1

criteria of Poetry

Answer 1

tendency towards brevity
condensation of subject matter
musicality (rhyme, scheme, metre)
external form (line, stanzas)
deviation from everyday language

Question 2

The poem is two things

Answer 2

a structure made of words
as an event

Question 3

speech situation

Answer 3

real Author -> fictive speaker -> subject matter -> fictive addressee -> real reader

Question 4

analysis of speech Situation

Answer 4

deictics
personal and possessive pronouns (I, you, mine, your)
adverbials of place and time (here, there, now, then, yesterday)
describe relationships between: speaker and subject matter, speaker and addressee

Question 5

The Ballad: Form

Answer 5

ballad stanza: four lines
rhyme scheme: alternating rhyme (often abcb)
metre: iamb (alternating: tetrameter and trimeter)

Question 6

The Ballad: Content

Answer 6

narrative: tells a story (often love, death, the supernatural)
proximity to folk culture (minimal details about characters, supernatural occurances)

Question 7

Dramatic Monologue

Answer 7

individualized character as speaker
a clearly specified situation
monologue as speech of a single speaker in a dialogue
speaker reveals something about himself
Process of consciousness
Insight into individual consciousness

Question 8

The Sonnet: Form

Answer 8

14 lines
iambic pentameter
strict rhyme scheme
specific structure

Question 9

The Sonnet: Content

Answer 9

originally: unrequited love
changed over time: woman-man, man-man, god, nature

Question 10

Francesco Petrarca

Answer 10

father of sonnet form
main themes: the beauty of the idealized, virtuous Laura (standart repertory: arier)

Question 11

The Petrarchan Concept of Love: The Beloved

Answer 11

beautiful
beauty mirrors her virtue
unattainable (“cruel-fair”)

Question 12

The Petrarchan Concept of Love: The Poet Lover

Answer 12

praises the Lady
complains about his frustrated desire and funnels it into an disinterested admiration for the greater ideals represented by the Lady
construction of (male) subjectivity through poetry

Question 13

Sonnet Forms: Italien sonnet

Answer 13

Octave + sestet
number of rhymes: 4 or 5
Volta after octave

Question 14

Sonnet Forms: Wyatt’s sonnet

Answer 14

Octave + quatrain + couplet
number of rhymes: 5
Volta after octave

Question 15

Sonnet Forms: Shakespearean Sonnet

Answer 15

three quatrains + closing couplet
number of rhymes: 7
Volta after three quatrains

Question 16

linguistic Levels of Analysis

Answer 16

phonological level (sound)
morphological level (word and word formation)
syntactic level (arrangement of sentences)
semantic level (meaning)
pragmatic level (context)

Question 17

rhetorical question

Answer 17

A Question that doesn’t expect an answer

Question 18

apostrophe

Answer 18

phrase or speech made by a character that is addressed to a subject that is not literally present in the literary work

Question 19

stylistic devices on the phonological level

Answer 19

alliteration
consonance
assonance
onomatopoeia

Question 20

Morphological rhetorical devices

Answer 20

anaphora
epiphora
apanalepsis
anadiplosis

Question 21

syntactical rhetorical devices

Answer 21

parallelism
chiasm
ellipsis
inversion
asyndeton
polysyndeton
zeugma
hysteron proteron

Question 22

semantic rhetorical devices

Answer 22

litotes
hyperbole
euphemism
oxymoron
irony
figures of similarity
figures of continguity

Question 23

The romantic period

Answer 23

1785 - 1832
phase of modernisation
industrialisation gathers momentum
- mass production
- capitalism and commercialisation
- change of social structure
Literary:
Turn away from rationalism
Individual as only remaining meaningful entity

Question 24

romantic poets

Answer 24

william wordsworth
samuel taylor coleridge

Question 25

The Victorian Age

Answer 25

1837-1901
industrial Revolution
technological progress
scientific discoveries
action instead of introspective
earnestness, moral responsibility
Sense of moral and loss

Question 26

Sir Thomas wyatt (1503-1542)

Answer 26

• sceptical towards Petrarchan love concept
• irregular metre, natural language
• introduces sonnet form to brittain
• whose list to hunt is a imitation of petrarcas sonnet 190