Text Book: Literature, Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama 6th Edition
Author Robert DiYanni
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| 4200888192 | Narrative Poems | Stress story and action; epic, romance, and ballads | 0 | |
| 4200888193 | Lyric Poems | Stress emotion and song; elegy and epigraph, sonnet and sestina, aubade and villanelle | 1 | |
| 4200888194 | Epics | Long narrative poems that record the adventures of a hero whose exploits are important to the history of a nation. | 2 | |
| 4200888195 | Ballads | Narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. | 3 | |
| 4200888196 | Romance | Narrative poem in which adventure is a central feature, the plot tends to be complex with surprising and even magical actions. | 4 | |
| 4200888197 | Epigram | brief witty poem that is often satirical | 5 | |
| 4200888198 | Elegy | lament for the dead | 6 | |
| 4200888199 | Ode | long poem that honors a person, place or thing; stanzas of varied length, meter, and form | 7 | |
| 4200888200 | Scansion | the stressed and unstressed beat pattern in a line of poetry | 8 | |
| 4200888201 | Shakespearean (English) sonnet | Composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding two-line couplet; iambic pentameter | 9 | |
| 4200888202 | Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet | Composed of an eight-line octave and a six-line sestet | 10 | |
| 4200888203 | Villanelle | Relies heavily on repetition, composed of five three-line tercets and a final four-line quatrain | 11 | |
| 4200888204 | Apostrophe | Poem addressed to a person who is missing or dead | 12 | |
| 4200888205 | Rhyme Scheme | Assigning a letter to the rhyming sound at the end of each line | 13 | |
| 4200888206 | Enjambment | When a poetic expression exceeds one line | 14 | |
| 4200888207 | Eulogy | Speech given in praise of the lord, dead person | 15 | |
| 4200888208 | Epitaph | Inscription on a grave stone | 16 | |
| 4200888213 | Parody | Literary work making fun of another artistic work | 17 | |
| 4200888214 | Speaker | Narrator of a poem | 18 |
