Quiz Poetry Flashcards
What is a stanza?
Series of lines grouped together
What is a line?
A single line of text in a poem
- not necessarily a sentence
- sometimes one sentence can span across several lines
Couplet
2 lines
Tercet
3 lines
Quatrain
4 lines
Quintet
5 lines
Sestet
6 lines
Octave
8 lines
Lyric Poem
- Very popular with Romantic writers
- 1st person account
- Thoughts and feelings
- Usually described specific moment
Sonnet
Specific lyric poem
Consists of 14 lines
Petrarchan sonnet
Octave and sestet (group of 8 lines, group of 6 lines)
Abba abba, cdecde or cdcdcd
Shakespearean sonnet
Three quatrains and a couplet
Iambic pentameter
Abab, cdcd, efef, gg
Rhyme
Repetition of similar sounds
What is end rhyme?
- occurs at the end of two or more lines
- word at end of line
- most common
Rhythm
Sound pattern in poetic language
Two parts of rhythm
- Type of foot
- Number of feet
Foot
Rhythmical unit
-usually 2 or 3 syllables
Stressed= strong or loud syllable
Unstressed= weak or quiet syllable
Iambic
Type of foot
-unstressed, stressed
(Most common)
Trochaic
Type of foot
-stressed, unstressed
Anapestic
Type of foot
-Unstressed, Unstressed, Stressed
Dactylic
Type of foot
-Stressed, Unstressed, Unstressed
(Rare in English)
Two feet
Dimeter
Three feet
Trimeter
Four feet
Tetrameter
Five feet
Pentameter
Six feet
Hexameter
Blank verse
-Iambic Pentameter
-No rhyme
(Shakespeare’s favorite)
Free verse
- No rhythm
- No rhyme
Enjambment
Thought continues onto the next poetic line; line without end punctuation
Hyperbole
Exaggeration
Tone
Writer’s attitude
Speaker
Narrator of poem
What qualities of an American Romantic Hero did Rip van Winkle possess and which did he lack?
Rip possessed: youthful qualities, innocent purpose, and a love of nature
Lacked: a sense of honor based on higher principles, knowledge of people based on intuitive understanding rather than formal learning, and a quest for higher truth in the natural world
Romanticism
Began in Europe in the 18th century, came to America in the early 19th century
- feeling/emotion
- imagination
- natural world (supernatural)
- past
Rationalism
- focus on reason
- city is integral
- city = success
- change/revolution
How did the historical background of the early 19th century influence the Romantic writers?
Population in cities was increasing -city=dirty, disease, crime Distrust progress Industrialization begins Opposes rationalism
How does the speaker in the “Cross of Snow” use religious imagery and diction?
Uses the image of the cross to show his wife was holy/religious
“Soul more white”= pure/innocent
“Halo of pale light”= saint-like/holy
“Martyrdom”= saint
Positive effects of industrialization in “The Ropewalk”
-swings, drawing water from a well, ringing a bell, flying a kite, fishing, anchors, traps for hunting
Negative effects of industrialization in “The Ropewalk”
Factory conditions (portrayed as gloomy, depressing)
Long hours of work
Gallows for execution (use of rope)
What are the literary devices in “Old Ironsides”?
Imagery: “Her deck, once red with heroes’ blood”
Verbal irony: “O better that her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave”
Allusion: “the harpies of the shore shall pluck”
Metaphor: “the eagle of the sea”
