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AP Literature: Poetic Types Flashcards

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6309288107Ballada poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.0
6309288108Odea lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.1
6309288109DirgeA mournful song, piece of music, or poem.2
6309288110Pastorala work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life.3
6309288111Elegya poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead4
6309288112Sonneta poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, typically having ten syllables per line.5
6309288113Epica long poem narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.6
6309288114Villanellea nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.7
6309288115Lyrica lyric poem or verse.8
6309288116Sestinaa poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi.9

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