Elements of Poetry
Poetry is different from this type of writing.
What is prose?
This event ended the Greek empire.
What is the conquering of Greece by the Romans?
This man was obsessed with a lady named Laura
Who is Petrarch?
This is the amount of romance found in Romantic Era poetry.
What is none?
anguish
and dream-send is
hushed
in
moan-loll where
night gathers
morte carved smiles
What is Modern Era?
This is the type of rhyme that creates a rhyme scheme.
What is end rhyme?
This instrument was commonly played to accompany the poems being performed.
What is the lyre?
This man fathered the metaphysical movement in poetry, late in the Renaissance period.
Who is John Donne?
This new form of poetry became wildly popular during the Modern Era of poetry.
What is free verse?
O joyous, blossoming, ever-blessed flowers!
’Mid which my pensive queen her footstep sets;
O plain, that hold’st her words for amulets
And keep’st her footsteps in thy leafy bowers!
Who is Petrarch?
This is the repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry.
What is assonance?
These were the two major types of poetry performed by the Greeks, aside from the short forms.
What are Epic and Dramatic?
Shakespeare wrote all his poems and most of his plays in this line structure- 10 syllables with pairings of unstressed and stressed.
What is iambic pentameter?
The decline of this and the rise of this mark the shifting of power during the late Middle Ages.
What are the Catholic Church and governments?
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
When April with its sweet-smelling showers
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
Has pierced the drought of March to the root,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
And bathed every vein (of the plants) in such liquid
What is late Middle Ages?
The difference between a house and a home.
What is denotation and connotation?
This was the first civilization to produce poetry and literature.
What is the Sumerian culture?
This disease killed Petrarch's love.
What is the bubonic plague or Black Death?
This is the term for two lines of poetry with a large space in between parts of the lines.
What is a Caesura?
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
What is Late Renaissance period?
This sentence is an example of a literary tool:
"I harbor a profound abhorrence for his insolent behavior."
What is elevated diction?
These years mark the beginning and end of the Greek era of poetry.
What are 800 BC and 146 BC
Petrarch introduced a question in the first 8 lines, also called this.
He answered the question in the last 6 lines, also called this.
What are octave and sestet?
This major scientific discovery shook the world during the Victorian Era of poetry.
What is the theory of evolution?
That’s the message, Dorkas, and when you’ve told it
Then tell it to her again, and then again, now hurry.
But wait; hold on there; slowly, Dorkas, slowly.
Why are you rushing off before you’ve heard all your instructions?
What is Ancient Greek?