Genres Flashcards
story telling poetry
narratuve
long narrative about hero
epic
metrical romance
long rambling story about kings
stroy telling meant to be sung
ballad
somgs of unlettered folk
folk
songs written by literary people
ballad
it is to poetry like short story
metrical tale
derived its name from musical instrument lyre, intended to be sung
lyric
praise
ode
voices the authors personal grief
elegy
has 14 iambic pentameter lines
sonnet
lmade up of two sectionss, 8 octave and 6 sestet
italian petrarchan
abbaabba
octave
cdcdcd, cddcdc, etc
6 lines
in italian sonnet the turn of line 9 is called volta or turn
volta
second idea of poem, essential element
turn
consists of 3 quatrains and 1 couplet
shakesperan or english
final couplet
volta
short poems meant to be sung which can be secular sacred anthrms
songs
lyrical poems by hat do not belong to other types of lyric doesnt foloow
simple lyric
used to set forth life and character by means of speech
dramatic plays
poetic
plays
succeeds life
comedy
ends as loser
tragedy