FORMS

Question 1

ballad

Answer 1

a poem that usually tells a story; similar to a folk tale

Question 2

Elegy

Answer 2

a poem that is sad and thoughtful, and often said in lament of a person who has died

Question 3

Epic

Answer 3

a long narrative poem

Question 4

lyric

Answer 4

a poem that expresses the personal mood, feeling or meditation of a single speaker

Question 5

narrative

Answer 5

a poem that tells a story

Question 6

sonnet

Answer 6

14 lines. However, there are many differnt types of sonnets

Question 7

petrarchan sonnet/ italian sonnet

Answer 7

each of it’s 14 lines are in iambic pentameter. There will be an octave at the beginning, and sestet at the end

Question 8

shakespearean sonnet / english sonnet

Answer 8

each of its 14 lines are written in iambic pentameter of three quatrains, and a couplet with A-B-A-B, C-D-C-D, E-F-E-F, G-G rhyme scheme