Literary Terminology And Poetic Form
Overview
Every craft has a vocabulary, and poetry's is unusually old. A pattern of stresses named by the Greeks, a fourteen line shape imported from Italy in the sixteenth century and a rhyme scheme borrowed from village songs are all still in use, and the poets in your anthology chose between them deliberately. Knowing the names lets you describe those choices quickly and precisely.
The point is never the label. It is that a villanelle keeps circling back on itself, a sonnet argues and then turns, a ballad trails off at the end of every fourth line, and free verse breaks wherever the poet decides the silence should fall. This note builds the toolkit, and shows you how to make each term earn its place in a sentence.
Objectives
- Understand and use appropriate literary terminology
- Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects
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- Which of these describes a trochee? A) An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one B) A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one C) Two stressed syllables together D) Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one Answer: B
- A poem of fourteen lines rhyming ABBAABBA CDDECE, with its turn at line nine, is a: A) Shakespearean sonnet B) Petrarchan sonnet C) Villanelle D) Ballad Answer: B
- Which anthology poem is written as a villanelle? A) 'Remember' by Christina Rossetti B) 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning C) 'Do not go gentle into that good night' by Dylan Thomas D) 'Blessing' by Imtiaz Dharker Answer: C
- Blank verse is best defined as: A) Any poem without rhyme B) Unrhymed iambic pentameter C) Poetry with no regular metre or rhyme D) A poem printed without stanza breaks Answer: B
- A strong pause created by punctuation in the middle of a line is called: A) Enjambment B) Caesura C) A volta D) End-stopping Answer: B
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