Unit 2 Terms Flashcards
A short, simple narrative song
Ballad
Characteristically impersonal, compressed, dramatic, ritualistic in effect and simple in stanza form
Folk Ballad
A narrative poem created by a poet in imitation of the old anonymous folk band
Literary Ballad
A literary technique that sometimes serves as a comparison piece to a story within a story
Frame Story
A pair of rhymed lines
Couplets
The attitude of a work towards its subject
Tone
A four line stanza, one of the most common forms in English poetry
Quatrains
A typically long narrative poem
Romance
Instruction in literature
Didacticism
Typically satires or parodies that mock common classical stereotypes of heros and heroic literature
Mock Epic
A connected series of incidents
Plot
The emotion pervading a work
Atmosphere
Exaggerated statement or claims not meant to be taken literally
Hyperbole
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
Symbolism
The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less that it actually is
Understatement
