AP Poetry Types 2017 Flashcards
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| 6523020371 | limerick | A five line poem in which lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme. | 0 | |
| 6523023204 | haiku | 3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature | 1 | |
| 6523023205 | ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 2 | |
| 6523025329 | ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 3 | |
| 6523028633 | elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech | 4 | |
| 6523028634 | 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. | 5 | |
| 6523030871 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 6 | |
| 6523034543 | Shakespearean sonnet | 14 lines consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg | 7 | |
| 6523036906 | Spenserian sonnet | 14 lines consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee | 8 | |
| 6523048443 | Petrarchan sonnet | Italian 14 line poem comprised of an octave and sestet; abba, abba, cde, cde | 9 | |
| 6523056430 | lyric poem | A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker | 10 | |
| 6523059290 | pastoral poem | verses that idolizes rural life | 11 | |
| 6523067789 | Gothic | Of the Middle Ages; of or relating to a mysterious, grotesque, and desolate style of fiction/poetry | 12 | |
| 6523071116 | epic poetry | A long narrative poem about the adventures of an almost superhuman character | 13 | |
| 6523073527 | blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 14 | |
| 6523075423 | sestina | 6 six-line stanzas ending with tercet; last words of each line in 1st stanza are repeated as last words in next stanza | 15 | |
| 6523075424 | closed form | A self-contained or explicitly limited form; having a resolved balance of tensions, a sense of calm completeness implying a totality within itself. | 16 | |
| 6523080747 | cinquain | a short, five line, unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2,4, 6, 8, 2 in five lines. | 17 | |
| 6523087091 | dramatic monologue | A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener. As readers, we overhear the speaker | 18 | |
| 6523089046 | idyll | Presenting a positive, peaceful view of rural life (as poetry or prose); pleasant in a natural, simple way | 19 | |
| 6523091262 | Horatian ode | Roman, equal-length stanzas with the same rhyme scheme and meter; it tends to be personal rather than formal | 20 | |
| 6523098672 | Pindaric ode | Praise something publicly important with equal length stanzas and meter | 21 | |
| 6523103735 | rhyme royal | 7 lines, poetry, iambic pentameter, fixed rhyme scheme. | 22 | |
| 6523106156 | rondeau | French lyrical; a 15-line poem made up of three stanzas. Each line of this type of poem has 8 to 10 syllables. | 23 | |
| 6523106157 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. | 24 |
