LITERARY FORMS Flashcards

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  • Way of categorizing literature based on its structure or purpose
  • Set structure which helps readers to classify it
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LITERARY FORMS`

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What:

rhythmic and aesthetic qualities of language

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POETRY

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What:

scripted works for theatrical performance

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DRAMA

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including novels, novellas, and short stories

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PROSE

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What:

FACTUAL writings such as essays, biographies, and journals

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NON-FICTION

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  • literature that conveys a thought, describes a scene or tells a story
  • lyrical arrangement
  • rhyming lines and meter
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POETRY

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  • Poetry is Universal
  • Poetry is an Oral/ Performative Art
  • Poetry is a memorability technology
  • Poetry is a formal and metrical art
  • Poetry is a sacred art
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TRUE

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  • basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry
  • number of syllables and pattern of emphasis on those syllables
  • Iambic, trochee, anapest
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METER

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  • unit of poetry - lines that relate to a similar thought or topic.
  • each stanza has its own concept and serves a unique purpose
  • “stanza” - room
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STANZA

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  • pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza
  • patterns are encoded by letters
  • ABAB, ABBA, AAAA, AABB
  • internal, slant, identical, eye
  • HELPS CREATE A MOOD
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RHYME

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WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF RHYMED POETIC FORMS?

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1) RHYMED POETRY
2) BLANK VERSE
3) FREE VERSE

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WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF NARRATIVE POETIC FORMS?

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1) EPICS
2) BALLAD

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WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF LYRIC POETIC FORMS?

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1) ELEGY
2) ODE
3) SONNET

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in which all or some of the lines have a rhyme word at the end.

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RHYMED POETRY

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  • unrhymed verses
  • poetry written with precise meter
  • has the same number of syllables
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BLANK VERSE

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  • Tells a story with a plot, characters, and a setting.
  • It is one of the oldest and most straightforward forms of poetry. - It tells a story, often in a chronological sequence
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NARRATIVE POETRY

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  • lengthy, narrative work of poetry
  • extraordinary feats and adventures of characters from a distant past
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EPICS

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  • narrative verse that can be either poetic or musical
  • ABCB
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BALLAD

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Fourteen-line poem that usually uses a meter and rhyme scheme. and discusses the topic about love.

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SONNET

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very often about someone who has died, but it might also be something that has died, say, a feeling, or a relationship
elegies are an expression on the occasion of loss generally

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ELEGIES

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short lyric poem that praises an individual, an idea, or an event (mundane)

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ODE

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a three-line poetic form originating in Japan, that uses 5-7-5 pattern, hokku served to begin a longer poem by establishing a season

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HAIKU

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exploring the relationship between humans and nature, and for romanticizing the ideals of a simple country life

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PASTORAL POETRY

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five-line poem that consists of a single stanza, an AABBA rhyme scheme, and whose subject is a short, pithy tale or description

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LIMERICK

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specific poetic form that uses repeated lines and a strict rhyming pattern (ABA, ABAA) throughout its 19 lines, which are grouped into six separate stanzas. Usually about obsession and intense topic.

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VILLANELLE

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  • dialogue and performances
  • performed in a theatre or radio or television.
  • “drama” comes from a Greek word meaning “action”
  • contains conflict of characters
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DRAMA

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WHO ARE THE TWO ANCIENT GREEK MUSES?

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MELPOMEN (TRAGEDY) AND THALIA (COMEDY)

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HISTORY OF DRAMA
- Religious in nature, rooted with the Greek god Dionysius
- Choral presentation, with costumes
- Eventually, people take specific roles
- Festival of Dionysia (music, poetry, dance)
- Thespis won by reciting poems and enacting characters

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TRUE

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an emotional piece of literature which includes a story which is recited or sung.

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DRAMA

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  • lighter in tone than ordinary works and provide a happy conclusion
  • quaint circumstances, unusual characters, and witty remarks
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COMEDY

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  • darker themes
  • disaster, pain, and death
    “tragic flaw”
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TRAGEDY

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  • exaggerated drama
  • characters are of a single dimension and simple, or may be stereotyped
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MELODRAMA

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  • monologue in which a character speaks to him or herself
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SOLILOQUY