Creative Writing

Dramatic poetry

________ may suggest a story but there is more emphasis on character rather than on the narrative.

Elegies

________ and Odes do not strictly use meter and rhyme.

Doctor Faustus

________ carries the distinction of being the first Christian tragedy because of its treatment of the inner conflict, the battle for the soul.

variable rhyme

Sonnet a 14- line poem with a(n) ________ scheme.

Ode

________ a "formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea ..

public personage

Elegy a lamentation usually deals with the death of a(n) ________ or a loved one, but in a broader sense, it could be any reflective lyric on the theme of human mortality.

contemporary literature

In ________ and music, the ballad is primarily defined by its commitment to nostalgia, community histories, and romantic love ..

Villanelle

________ coming from the Italian villano meaning "peasant, "must be a 19- line poem, with five three- line stanzas and a final quatrain.

Western literature

The sonnet is unique among poetic forms in ________ in that it has retained its appeal for major poets for five centuries ..

historical significance

Epic a long narrative poem in which a heroic protagonist engages in an action of great mythic or ________.

Tragedy

________ imitates men who are better than the average and comedy, men who are worse "(Hoy, 2014)

Concrete

________ or Visual Poetry the poets intent is conveyed by graphic patterns of letters, words, or symbols rather than by the meaning of words in conventional arrangement.

musical quality of poems

It is uttered through the first person and emphasizes the ________.

(Yoshida, 2019) Examples

Iliad and Odyssey, Aeneid, Beowulf, Epic of Gilgamesh, Mahabharata and Ramayana, Biag ni Lam-Ang, Hinilawod, Darangan, Ibalon, Indarapatra and Sulayman Ballads popular narrative songs passed down orally

(Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2019) Examples

Eric Nelson ("Apostrophe to the Apostrophe"), Percy Bysshe Shelley ("Ode to the West Wind") and John Keats ("Ode on a Grecian Urn")

Example

Do not go gentle into that good night

Comedy and Tragedy

ancient forms of Drama

revolves around the terrible events that befall the heroes

often due to one fatal flaw (hamartia) it "probes with high seriousness questions concerning the role of man in the universe" (Sewall, 2019)