Ballads
"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe is an example of what kind of ballad?
(50 bonus points for both names)
Literary ballad (and lyrical ballad)
How many lines does a sonnet have?
Fourteen
Name a type of poem that is considered formal verse.
Sonnets, ballads, limericks, etc.
The act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect is...
juxtaposition
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
"Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare
What are the three main types of ballads?
1. Traditional ballads (folk ballads)
2. Literary ballads (lyrical ballads)
3. Modern ballads
What two types of sonnets are most similar?
Spenserian and Shakespearean
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, which creates a rhythm, is called...
Meter
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
This is an example of which poetic device?
pathetic fallacy
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" by John Keats
What 2 type of stanzas are most common in ballads?
quatrains and sestets
- I am composed of an octave and a sestet
- My rhyme scheme is ABBA ABBA CDCDCD
What am I?
Petrarchan sonnet
What is an iamb?
A type of foot (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable).
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
Which poetic device is this an example of?
personification
And a moon is always
a moving canoe
across blue acres of the night
"In There Somewhere" by Tom Dawe
Ballads with quatrains often follow a specific rhyme scheme. What is it?
ABAB or ABCB
In a Shakespearean sonnet, when does the shift take place?
In the couplet
What does "enjambment" mean?
The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation.
What is the difference between alliteration, consonance, and assonance?
Alliteration: repetition of a sound at the beginning of words
Consonance: the repetition of a consonant sound
Assonance: the repetition of a vowel sound
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
What is common meter? (This is the meter that most traditional ballads follow)
When a poem alternates between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. (For example: The House of the Rising Sun)
Sonnets are divided into two parts. What are they called?
Proposition and resolution
Which of the following lines is in iambic pentameter?
1. Stormed at with shot and shell
2. I saw their starved lips in the gloam
3. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
3. So long as man can breathe or eyes can see
I see a lily on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever-dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.
What do the flowers represent in this stanza?
The colours of the knight's complexion (white and red)
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats