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Flashcards by jennabarnes12387, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by jennabarnes12387
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| Question | Answer |
| What are ballads? | They are oral folk traditional poems or songs that are meant to be memorized and performed in public |
| What happened in the 18th century regarding ballads? What did this lead to in the 19th century | In the 18th century scholars began to collect and record traditional ballads to protect them. This led to the creation of the literary ballad in the 19th century |
| What is a literary ballad? | It is a kind of narrative meaning it tells a story |
| Describe the structure of a traditional ballad? | Alternating lines of iambic tetra meter and iambic trimeter. |
| Describe the structure of this poem? | Made up of three lines of iambic tetra meter followed by one short line. |
| What period was this poem written in? By whom? Describe this period. | Written by John Keats in the romantic period. In that time poems were focused on emotions, intuition, and imagination. Poems at this time had elements of chivalry, romance, magic, fairy kingdoms, and mythological realms. |
| What does meads mean in line 13? | A mead is a meadow |
| The diction in romantic poems is archaic. What does this mean? | The language and word choice is old fashioned |
| What does the term elfin grot mean in this poem? | It means a cave wear fairies might live. |
| How many speakers are there? | 2 speakers or 4 voices in all |
| What does the description of a lily on his brow and roses in his cheeks mean? | His face is white but his cheeks are flushed from fever |
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