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Development of Poetry Flashcards

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Epic Poetry

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Long narrative poems recounting courageous deeds of a hero. Examples Iliad and Odyssey

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Old English AKA

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Anglo- Saxon

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Lyric poems

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Communicate personal thoughts and feelings (as opposed to drama or narrative) originally with musical accompinement

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The Odyssey is an example of what type of literature?

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Epic poetry

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Ballad

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Narrative poem in short stanzas; ballads were often originally sung

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Who invented the printing press?

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Johannes Gutenberg

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Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Sonnet

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A fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter. Originated in Italy.

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Petrarchan

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A 14 line poem consisted of an octet plus a sestet. AKA Italian sonnet

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Shakespearean sonnet

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English sonnet

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Metaphysical poetry

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Expresses highly intellectual and philosophical ideas - John Donne

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Neoclassicism

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Revival of the style and attitude of ancient Greece - Ben Jonson

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Who wrote Paradise Lost?

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John Milton

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During which period in literary history did drama and poetry interweave and flourish?

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Renaissance

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Byronic hero

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A character that is defiant, flawed and brooding, talented, self-destructive, handsome, adventerous

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Who wrote Wuthering Heights?

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Emily Bronte

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Example of Byronic hero

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Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights

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Free Verse

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Unmetered lines of no particular length to echo the sound of everyday speech

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Two 19th century poets

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Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman

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Imagists

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Precise presentations of images rather than descriptions

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Who was the leader of the Imagist movement?

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Ezra Pound

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E.E. Cummings has a lack of…

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capitalization and punctuation

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What aspect of Walt Whitman’s poetry made it innovative at the time?

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Unorthodox form - disregarded meter and form

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Elegy

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A mournful poem, usually about death

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Ballad

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A narrative poem in short stanzas originally meant to be sung

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