Classification And Definition Of Literary Types: Poetry

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_________ ______ tells a story in richly imaginative and rhythmical language.

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Narrative poetry

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____ is a long, narrative poem divided into distinct parts and episodes bound together by a common relationship to some great hero, action, and time.

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Epic

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________ _______ is a long, rambling love story in verse.

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Metrical Romance

Hint 3

literature most characteristic of the Middle Ages

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______ is a short narrative poem intended to be sung.

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Ballad

Hint 4

Types are folk or literary as in the epic.

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________ ____ is to poetry what the short story is to prose.

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Metrical Tale

Hint 5

It deals with any emotion or phase of life and its story is told in a simple, straightforward, and realistic manner.

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_____ ______ expresses personal thoughts and feelings.

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Lyric poetry

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The ___ is a rather extended poem usually complicated in meter and stanza forms and always deals with a serious theme such as immortality.

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ode

Hint 7

...the subject matter can never be trivial.

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_____ is generally a poem of a subjective and meditative nature.

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Elegy

Hint 8

...it is a poem that can be distinguished by its subject - death.

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The ____ is a short lyric poem intended to be sung.

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song

Hint 9

It has that particularly melodious quality required by the singing voice.

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_______ _____ have nonreligious themes and examples are prothalamiums and epithalamiums.

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Secular songs

Hint 10

Marriage songs

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______ _____ are songs in praise of God such as oratorios and cantatas.

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Sacred songs

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______ _____ is any short poem where the verse is especially musical or where there is a marked subjective or emotional tone.

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Simple Lyric

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______ is a lyric poem distinguished by its exact form - fourteen iambic pentameter lines.

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Sonnet

Hint 13

It produces a single emotional effect.

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_______ ______ contains an octave where the theme, problem, hope, or desire is presented and a sestet where a resolution is reached.

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Italian sonnet

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_____________ ______. Its typical form, the sonnet presents and develops its theme in the first three quatrains and states a conclusion in the couplet, or the last two lines.

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Shakespearian (English) sonnet, iambic pentameter

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____ __ _______ is light verse or occasional and complimentary verses which deal in a witty and polished fashion with subjects that , on the surface at least, are not very serious.

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Vers de societe

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________ ______ portrays life and character through action in powerful, emotion-packed lines such as those in Shakespeare's plays.

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Dramatic poetry

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______ is a type of drama which aims primarily to amuse and which ends happily.

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Comedy

Hint 18

...presents incongruous aspects of human speech, character, and conduct as displayed in social life.

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_______ is a type of drama in which the chief character undergoes a morally significant struggle which ends disastrously.

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Tragedy

Hint 19

...assumes that humanity has a sense of its own dignity and free will, a sense of a moral law, and forces which lie outside of and are bigger than an individual.

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_____ is an exaggerated comedy based on broadly humorous situations.

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Farce

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__________ ____ is a drama the materials of which are taken from the lives of outstanding figures in history.

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Historical Play

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_________ is a play with sensational actions, a sentimental love story, extravagant emotions, and, generally, a happy ending.

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Melodrama

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______ is a form of court pageantry that flourished in England in the 16th century and not revived later.

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Masque

Hint 23

It had a prologue serving to introduce a group of actors who came in a sort of decorative float.

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________ _________ is a poem in which one character speaks throughout, but the presence, actions, and even the words of other characters are implied.

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Dramatic Monologue