AP Poetry Term List 4

Structure AND Form

313113867	Aubade	a poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn
313113868	Ballad	a simple narrative poem, often incorporating dialogue that is written in quatrains, generally with a rhyme scheme of A B C D.
313113869	Caesura	a break or pause within a line of poetry indicated by punctuation and used to emphasize meaning.
313113870	Couplet	two lines of rhyming poetry; often used by Shakespeare to conclude a scene or an important passage
313113871	Elegy	a poem that laments the dead or a loss.
313113872	Enjambment	a technique in poetry that involves the running on of a line or stanza. It enables the poem to move and to develop coherence as well as directing the reader with regard to form and meaning.
313113873	Epic	a lengthy, elevated poem that celebrates the exploits of a hero.
313113874	Epigram	a brief witty poem. Pope often utilizes this form for satiric commentary.
313113875	Form	the shape or structure of a literary work
313113876	Free Verse	poetry without a defined form, meter, or rhyme scheme
313113877	Idyll	a type of lyric poem which extols the virtues of an ideal place or time
313113878	Lyric Poetry	a type of poetry characterized by emotion, personal feelings, and brevity; a large and inclusive category of poetry that exhibits rhyme, meter, and reflective thought.
313113879	Metaphysical Poetry	refers to the work of poets like John Donne who explore highly complex, philosophical ideas through extended metaphors and paradox.
313113880	Narrative Poem	a poem that tells a story
313113881	Octave	an eight-line stanza, usually combined with a sestet in a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet
313113882	Ode	a formal, lengthy poem that celebrates a particular subject
313113883	Quatrain	a four-line stanza
313113884	Sestet	a six-line stanza, usually paired with an octave to form a Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet
313113885	Sestina	a highly structured poetic form of 39 lines, written in iambic pentameter. It depends upon the repetition of six words from the first stanza in each of six stanzas.
313113886	Sonnet	a 14-line poem with a prescribed rhyme scheme in iambic pentameter.
313113887	Stanza	a unit of a poem, similar in rhyme, meter, and length to other units in the poem.
313113888	Tercet	a three-line stanza
313113889	Villanelle	a highly structured poetic form that comprises six stanzas: five tercets, and a quatrain. The poem repeats the first and third lines throughout.
313113890	Haiku	a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
313113891	Cinquain	a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables.
313113892	Tanka	Japanese poetry of five lines, the first and third lines composed of five syllables, the rest seven