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Poet and playwright of the Renaissance period in
William Shakespeare Western culture. Plays, comedies, tragedies,
tragicomedies and historical plays.
Author of Southern literature in America based on his
William Faulkner experience living in Mississippi during the early 20th
century.
Medieval poet "Father of English Literature" The
Canterbury Tales" portrayed life during the Middle
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ages.
Parlement of Foules-poem - dream vision poems
a piece of writing that tells a story and is performed
Drama
on stage.
Written in verses that may be complete sentences,
Poetry
clauses, or phrases. Rhyming or unrhymed verse.
, following a particular rhythmic pattern: iambic,
dactylic, spondaic, trochaic, or anapestic-w/o regular
Poetry meter meter.
Also, described by the number of beats or stressed
syllables per verse. Gives the poem flow.
Free verse poem poetry without rhyme or meter
Free verse, metered but unrhymed, rhyme but w/o
Poems
meter, or using both rhyme and meter.
Common meter in english iambic pentameter
Blank verse unrhymed iambic pentameter
Ballad used in musical songs and poems
rhymed and metered for subjects: love, death, murder,
Poetry ballads
or religious topics
monologue poems poet speaks in the voice of a character/persona
Elegies mourning poems: lament, praise, solace
long, recount heroic deeds and adventures, stylized
Epic poems language, and combine dramatic and lyrical
conventions
Epigrams poems memorable, one or two-line poems
Epistolary poems written and read as letters
Odes evolved from early poems with music and dance
poems expressing strong feelings and contemplative
Romantic poems
thoughts
Pastoral poems poetry that idealizes nature and country living
two lines of iambic trimeter, 2 lines of iambic dimeter
Limericks and one line of iambic trimeter, humorous and or
bawdy