AP English Literature Poetry Types Flashcards

6650440230	Ballad	a poem (or song) that narrates a story in short stanzas	0
6650440231	Elegy	a formal poem presenting a mediation on death (or another solemn theme)	1
6650440232	Epic	a long narrative poem written in elevated style that presents the adventures of characters of high position and episodes that are important to the history of a race/nation	2
6650440233	Free Verse	poetry that doesn't rhyme and also lacks a set meter	3
6650440234	Lyric	a short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings (originally meant to be sung while the accompanying lyre plays)	4
6650440235	Ode	a traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events	5
6650440241	Pantoum	a poem consisting of quatrains (any number of them) that says every line exactly twice	6
6650440795	Pastoral	a poem about a rural setting that is usually idealized with formal diction/meter	7
6650440796	Sestina	a poem consisting of 6 sestets (6 line stanzas) and a final tercet (using the same words to end the lines)	8
6650443004	Sonnet (Shakespearean and Petrarchan)	14 line lyric poem with a complicated rhyme scheme and a defined structure	9
6650443703	Villanelle	a 19-line (5 tercets, 1 quatrain) poem with only two end rhyming sounds throughout and whole lines recurring alternately	10