Unit 2

Question 0

Are characteristically impersonal, compressed, dramatic (in use of dialogue and absence of transitions), ritualistic in effect (through the use of various devices and repetition), and simple in stanza form.

Answer 0

Folk ballad

Question 1

A concise, anonymous narrative poem intended to be sung

Answer 1

Ballad

Question 2

A pair of rhymed lines.

Answer 2

Couplet

Question 3

The attitude of a work toward its subject.

Answer 3

Tone

Question 4

A four-line stanza, one of the most common stanza forms in English poetry.

Answer 4

Quatrain

Question 5

A narrative poem created by a poet in imitation of the old anonymous folk ballad. Usually is more elaborate and complex; the poet may retain only some of the devices and conventions of the older verse narrative.

Answer 5

Literary Ballad

Question 6

An object that stands for something else as well as for itself.

Answer 6

Symbolism

Question 7

A group of stories unified by a central situation

Answer 7

Frame story