AP Literature Poetic Forms Flashcards

6166131541	1st Person Point of View	the speaker is a character in the story or poem and tells it from his/her perspective	0
6166131542	3rd Person Limited Point of View	the speaker is not part of the story, but tells about the other characters through the limited perceptions of one other person	1
6166131543	3rd Person Omniscient Point of View	the speaker is not part of the story, but is able to "know" and describe what all the characters are thinking	2
6166131544	Verse	one single line of a poem arranged in a metrical pattern	3
6166131545	Stanza	a division of a poem created by arranging the lines into a unit, often repeated in the same pattern of meter and rhyme throughout the poem	4
6166131546	Enjambment	the continuation of logical sense-and therefore the grammatical construction-beyond the end of a line of poetry. This is sometimes done with the title, which in effect becomes the first line of the poem.	5
6166131547	Blank Verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	6
6166131548	Free Verse	lines with no prescribed pattern or structure	7
6166131549	Couplet	a pair of lines, usually rhymed; this is the shortest stanza	8
6166131550	Heroic Couplet	a pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter; they express a complete thought, with the second line reinforcing the first...closed/end-stopped	9
6166131551	Quatrain	a four-line stanza, or grouping of four lines of verse	10
6166131552	Ballad	a narrative poem written as a series of quatrains in which lines of iambic tetrameter alternate with iambic trimeter	11
6166131553	Haiku	a Japanese form of poetry consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables	12
6166131554	Limerick	a light or humorous form of five chiefly anapestic verses	13
6166131555	Lyric	a brief subjective poem marked by imagination, melody, and emotion	14
6166131556	Narrative Poetry	a nondramatic poem which tells a story or present a narrative, wether simple or complex, long or short	15
6166131557	Sonnet	a fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter with a prescribed rhyme scheme; its subject was traditionally love	16
6166131558	Concrete Poetry	also known as pattern poetry, these are poems that are printed on the page so that they form a recognizable outline related to the subject, thus conveying the meaning of the words	17
6166131559	Ode	any of several stanzaic forms, which intricate rhyme schemes and irregular number of lines, always written in a style marked by a rich, intense expression of an elevated thought praising a person or object	18
6166135484	Elegy	also called a DIRGE, a poem of mourning and meditation...usually about the death of a person but occasionally about other losses (love, strength, youth, etc.)	19
6166142553	Villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with five three-line stanzas and a concluding quatrain; usually light in tone...based on only two rhymes	20
6166149575	Dramatic Monologue	a poem spoken by ONE person to a listener who may influence the speaker but who says nothing	21
6166178290	Caesura	an internal pause within a line of poetry usually indicated by a period, semicolon, dash, or other punctuation mark	22
6166190781	Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet	a sonnet divided into two discrete units--the octave (abba abba) and the sestet (cd cd cd OR cde cde)--with a VOLTA between the two	23
6166204267	Shakespearean/English Sonnet	a sonnet divided into three quatrains (abab cdcd efef) and a climactic couplet (gg) with a VOLTA between the last quatrain and the couplet	24
6166216102	Volta	a turning point in a poem	25