Folk Ballads and Sonnets flash cards

Set: Folk Ballads and Sonnets

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Folk Ballad, narrative, unknown writer, sung, 4 line, 2nd, 4th	________ is a ______ poem by an _______ which is meant to be _______. Most ballads have _____ stanzas, in which the ____ and ____ lines rhyme. Many have regularly repeated lines, called a refrain,and contain elements such as dialogue and repetition.
Sonnet, 14 line, iambic pentameter	_______ is a ______ lyric poem with a single theme. Sonnets are usually written in _________ _________ and take a definite form.
Petrachan, Francesco Petrach, 8-line octave, 6-line sestet, ABBA ABBA, CDE CDE	________Sonnet-named after Italian poet _______ ________ (1304-1374) and is divided into an _______ and a _______. the octave rhymes___________ and the sestet generally rhymes ________. The octave raises a question or presents a situation, and the sestet gives a response.
Spenserian, Edmund Spenser, ABABBCBC, CDCDEE	_________Sonnet-named after English poet _________ _________ (1552-1599) and rhymes ___________ ____________ (sometimes there is no break between the octave and the sestet).
Shakespearean, William Shakespeare, ABAB, CDCD, EFEFGG, 3, couplet, 12, couplet	_____sonnet-named after English poet/playwright _______ _________(1564-1616) and rhymes ______ ____ ______. It contains ____ quatrains followed by a rhyming _______. Usually, the first ________ lines are used to present a problem, idea, or situation, and the ending ______ resolves or emphaxizes the problem, idea, or situation.