AP Literature: Poetic Types Flashcards

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