Vocab 2

Question 1

A rhetorical figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or and abstraction or inanimate object. In classical rhetoric, the term could also denote a speaker’s turning to address a particular member or section of the audience.

Answer 1

Apostrophe

Question 2

Slogan of aestheticism in the 19th century. In French as l’arte pour l’arte.

Answer 2

Art for Art’s Sake

Question 3

Folk song or orally transmitted poem telling in a direct and dramatic manner some popular story usually derived from a tragic incident in local history. Normally composed in quatrains with alternating four stress and three-stress lines, the 2nd and 4th rhyming

Answer 3

Ballad

Question 4

Poet awarded privileged status in ancient Celtic cultures, and who was charged with the duty of celebrating the laws and heroic achievements of his people.

Answer 4

Bard

Question 5

A contrast or opposition, either rhetorical or philosophical. It emphasizes a contrast or opposition of ideas, usually by balancing of connected clauses with parallel grammatical constructions

Answer 5

Antithesis

Question 6

Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. It’s a very flexible English verse from which can attain rhetorical grandeur while echoing the natural rhythms of speech and allowing smooth enjambment.

Answer 6

Blank verse

Question 7

Belonging to or derived from Lord Byron or his works. The hero is a character-type found in his celebrated narrative poem Childe Harold Pilgrimage, and other works. He’s boldly defiant but bitterly self-tormenting outcast, proudly contemptuous of social norms but suffering for some unnamed sin. Ex Heathcliff

Answer 7

Byronic

Question 8

Quote from Horace’s Odes meaning “seize the day”.A common theme or motif in European lyric poetry, where the speaker of a poem argues that since life is short, pleasure should be enjoyed while there’s still time.

Answer 8

Carpe Diem

Question 9

A collective term applied by some literary historians to a group of English lyric poets of the Caroline period, and derived from the popular designation for supporters of King Charles in the Civil War

Answer 9

Cavalier Poets

Question 10

This permits some variation in the placing of its five stresses; thus it may often begin with a dressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable before resuming the regular iambic pattern

Answer 10

Iambic pentameter