AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

Text Book: Literature, Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama 6th Edition
Author Robert DiYanni

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