Poetry

Question 1

Petrarchan Sonnet

Answer 1

Most common (Italian origin 13th cent)
Stanza 1 - octave (8) ABBA ABBA
Stanza 2 - sestet (6) shift
Sir Thomas Wyatt made popular in England in early 16th century.

Question 2

Shakespearean Sonnet

Answer 2

3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet.

Iambic pentameter.

Question 3

Volta

Answer 3

Turn in tone/ideas.

Question 4

Quatrain

Answer 4

4 lines.

Question 5

Iambic Pentameter

Answer 5

Line of verse with 5 metrical feet each consisting of one short (unstressed) syllable followed by one large (stressed) syllable.

Question 6

Scansion

Answer 6

Figuring out meters in poem.

Question 7

Trochaic Foot

Answer 7

Reversed Iambic.

Question 8

New Criticism

Answer 8

Avoiding intentional and affective fallacy. Interpreting the poem for what it contains and not being influenced by any other factors.

Question 9

Intentional Fallacy

Answer 9

Assuming the intent or purpose of the artist who created the poem.

Question 10

Affective Fallacy

Answer 10

Being aware of personal biases - not letting the readers response define the text.

Question 11

Enjambment

Answer 11

A line break that interrupts the sentence.

Question 12

Assonance

Answer 12

Repetition of vowel sounds ex: chintz china

Question 13

Consonance

Answer 13

Repetition of consonant sounds ex: looK asKance

Question 14

Free Verse

Answer 14

Does not conform to any strict metrical, stanzaic, syllabic, or rhyming patterns.
“Vers Libre” France 1880s.
Natural and flexible.

Question 15

Feminist Criticism

Answer 15

The relations between literature and the socio-cultural subordination borne by women as writers, readers, or fictional characters within a male-dominated social order.
Using literary text as a way to diagnose and analyze social ills.