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Literature LCC WGU10
Literature-Notes Chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ballad | a form of verse to be sung or recited and characterized by its presentation of a dramatic or exiting episode in simple narrative form |
| blank verse | Unrhymed but otherwise regular verse, usually iambic pentameter |
| closed form | |
| found poetry | |
| haiku | a form of japanese poetry that gives --usually in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables-- a clear picture designed to arouse a distinct emotion ansd suggest a specific spiritual insight |
| limerick | a form of light verse that follows a definite pattern: five anapestic lines of which the first, second, and fifth, consisting of three feet, rhyme; and the third & fourth lines, consisting of two fee, rhyme |
| free verse | |
| lyric | a brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion, and creating a single, unified impression |
| narrative poetry | a poem that tells a story |
| open form | |
| ode | a sigle, unified strain of exalted lyrical verse, directed to a single purpose, and dealing with one theme |
| prose poetry | a poem printed as prose, with both margins justified (author edgar allan poe used these) |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza |
| sestina | one of the most difficult and complex of verse forms it consists of six six-lined stanzas and a three-lined envoy |
| sonnet | A poem almost invariably of fourteen lines and folowing one of several set rhyme schemes (Italian/Petrapchan or English/Shakespearean types of sonnets) |
| triolet | one of the simpler French verse forms. it consists of eight lines, the first two being repeated as the lst two and the first line recurring also as the fourth |
| villanelle | |
| visual poetry |