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Poetry
Literary Interpretation
Narration
Literary Geeks
100
Created by Charles Dickens, this sub-genre of the novel focuses on exposing the horrors and injustices of poverty and the lives of the working class poor.
What is the Social Problem Novel, or the Condition of England novel?
100
This type of poem typically takes the following form: Twelve Lines divided into a four-part structure:  Three quatrains  A final couplet Rhyme Scheme: (abab cdcd efef gg) Meter: iambic pentameter
What is the English (Shakespearean) Sonnet?
100
The careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text. Such a reading places great emphasis on the particular over the general, paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold as they are read.”
What is Close Reading?
100
A type of narrator who reveals flaws, whose narration we don’t necessarily believe. This type of narrator often deliberately misleads the reader.
What is an unreliable narrator?
100
History of the novel critics attribute the rise of the novel to this century.
What is the eighteenth century?
200
"A poetic genre in which a speaker reveals his or her character, often in relation to a critical situation or event, in a monologue addressed to the reader or to a presumed listener."
What is the Dramatic Monologue?
200
Sometimes a single metaphor extends over a section of a poem, in which case it is called a(n) _____________ metaphor. When it extends over the whole poem, it is called a(n)_____________ metaphor.
What is 1) Extended Metaphor? 2) Controlling Metaphor.
200
___________is the events that take place in the story, whereas _________________is the the arrangement and pacing of these events in a dramatic order.
What is Action and Plot?
200
Stream of consciousness narration is a narrative device developed by this modernist author.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
200
Most of the greatest lyric poems in the canon of English literature were written during the last two decades of the Elizabethan period by a handful of writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Shakespeare. These men were responsible for a deluge of poetry that exploded in the 1580s and burnt fiercely to the end of the century! This phenomenon is known as_____________________.
What is the Sonnet Craze?
300
If we can thank the Greeks for our use of lyric and metrical system, who can we thank for the Sonnet? (IE, in what country, and from whom, did the sonnet originate)
What is Italy? Who is Petrarch?
300
Poetic rhymes are typically classified in three different ways: Syllabic similarity ("Chime" and "Dime"), ____________, and _____________.
What is: 1) Stress ("pee-pee" and "pretty"; Feminine Rhyme) 2) Placement (internal, end rhyme).
300
_____________ type of writing explains what happens in a text, whereas _____________makes a claim for why it happens.
What is Description versus Analysis?
300
A piece of fiction written as a series of documents, such as diaries, letters, newspapers.
What is Epistolary Form?
300
Prior to the eighteenth century, this mode of writing was the predominant genre of literature. Hint: the medieval romance is one example of this genre.
What is epic poetry?
400
Besides following certain formal patterns of rhyme schemes and number of lines, certain sub-genres of poetry tend to certain types of content. The lyric poem is known for _____________; a ballad typically ____________________; the sonnet has traditionally dealt with______________.
What is: 1) a feeling or an emotion 2) tells a story 3) love.
400
"According to established tastes in earlier eras such as the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, proper poetic behavior dictated that poetry should not in any way be mistaken for prose. Literary critics believed poetry to be artistically superior to prose, and thus placed pressure on poets to make sure their poetry was distinguishable from prose. _____________________thus became necessary in order for poetry to be considered poetry."
What is Rhyme and Meter?
400
A type of poetic analysis in which we consider how the form and content of a poem work together in order to offer insight or create a commentary on a particular issue
What is poetic explication?
400
The following examples exhibit this type of narration: "There comes John, and I must put this away!" "Here's sister on the stairs!"
What is "to the moment" narration?
400
As opposed to the archetypal, stock characters that dominated medieval romance and epic poetry, eighteenth-century authors developed the novel in part to create characters with ______________.
What is interiority?
500
Italian sonnets are divided into two parts: the octave is eight lines long, and is used to present______________. At line nine, a change occurs, known as ______________. This is generally signaled by a word such as 'But', 'Yet' or 'Then', or an exclamation. The final six lines, the sestet, give ________________.
What is: 1) a thesis, an argument or an idea? 2) "Volta," or the "Turn"? 3) the "reason," or the solution to the problem?
500
The following excerpt contains these Sound Devices and this type of rhyme: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”
What is Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance? What is Internal Rhyme?
500
When trying to determine a poem's sub-genre (sonnet, villanelle, etc), we identify these three aspects of the poem:
What is: 1) Number of lines per stanza (sestet, quatrain) 2) Rhyme scheme (abab; bcbc) 3) Metrical pattern (iambic pentameter).
500
Romeo and Juliet. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Veronique and Penelope. These dramatic characters' interiorites are developed through their relationships with each other. This form of characterization is known as___________, and exists as playwright's main method of developing character.
What is interpersonal characterization?
500
An __________ is the writing on a headstone. An ___________is a quote at the beginning of a piece of writing. An ___________ is a short, pithy saying with a satirical twist at the end, a form made famous by _________________.
What is 1) Epitaph 2) Epigraph 3) Epigram 4) Oscar Wilde