6309288107 | Ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 0 | |
6309288108 | Ode | a 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 | |
6309288109 | Dirge | A mournful song, piece of music, or poem. | 2 | |
6309288110 | Pastoral | a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life. | 3 | |
6309288111 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead | 4 | |
6309288112 | Sonnet | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, typically having ten syllables per line. | 5 | |
6309288113 | Epic | a long poem narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation. | 6 | |
6309288114 | Villanelle | a 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 | |
6309288115 | Lyric | a lyric poem or verse. | 8 | |
6309288116 | Sestina | a 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 |
AP Literature: Poetic Types Flashcards
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