WLT - 5 (poetry - drama)
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eitatetaata on January 14, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Three examples of narrative poetic forms | - epic - ballad - romance |
| Differences of literary ballad from folk ballad | - author is known - supernatural things/events are on metaphorical level - meant to be written down |
| Three medieval epic cycles | - Britain (king Arthur) - Rome (Alexander, Trojans, Thebes) - France (Charlemagne) |
| Characteristic features of a romance | - adventure - supernatural events - complex plot - human beings confronting monsters |
| Difference between Shakespeare's and Petrarca's sonnets | - stanzas - Shakespeare: 3x 4-line quatrians + 2-line couplet - Petrarca: 1x 8-line octave + 6-line sextet |
| Three examples of close poetry form | - sonnet - limerick - sestina ... - villanelle, ode, elegy... |
| Number of lines in a villanelle | 19 |
| Four diction figures of poetry | - synonym - homonym - homophone - neologism ... - archaism... |
| Four syntactic figures | - inversion - ellipsis - anaphora - rhetoric question ... - paralellism, anadiplosis... |
| Five figures of speech | - oxymoron - irony - paradox - euphemism - metonymy ... - hyperbole, personification, periphrasis, epithet... |
| Double meters | - iambic - trochaic |
| Triple meters | - dactylic - anapestic |
| Number of feet in tetrameters | 4 |
| Dramatic irony | a discrepancy between what characters know and what readers or viewers know (to increase the readers' pleasure in the play's situation and action) |
| Climax = the last element of the drama? | No. |
| Staging elements of drama | - positions of actors on stage (= blocking) - actors' non-verbal signals (gestures, movements = stage business) - scenic background - props and costumes - lighting - sound effects |
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