AP literature poetry terms Flashcards

8365007230	Lyric	Subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression	0
8365016553	Narrative	nondramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative	1
8365023052	Sonnet	a rigid 14-line verse form, with variable structure and rhyme scheme according to type: Shakespearean, Spenserian sonnet, and Italian	2
8365045333	Shakespearean (English) Sonnet	Three quatrains and concluding couplet in iambic pentameter, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg or abba cddc effe gg.	3
8365064803	Spenserian sonnet	a specialized form with linking rhyme abab bcbc cdcd ee	4
8365094077	Italian (Petrarchan)	an octave and sestet, between which a break in thought occurs. The traditional rhyme scheme is abba abba code code (or in the sestet, any variation of c, d, e)	5
8365113102	Ode	Elaborate lyric verse which deals seriously with a dignified theme	6
8365119049	Blank Verse	Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter	7
8365124264	Limerick	Humorous nonsense-verse in five anapestic lines rhyming abba, a-lines being trimeter and b-lines dimeter	8
8365159214	Free verse	unrhymed lines without regular rhythm	9
8365159215	Epic	A long, dignified narrative poem which gives the account of a hero important to his nation or race	10
8365168927	Dramatic Monologue	A lyric poem in which the speaker tells an audience about a dramatic moment in his/her life and, in doing so, reveals his/her character	11
8365176751	Elegy	A poem of lament, meditating on the death of an individual	12
8365181348	Ballad	Simple, narrative verse which tells a story to be sung or recited; the folk ballad is anonymously handed down, while the literary ballad has a single author	13
8365194588	Idyll	Lyric poetry describing the life of the shepherd in pastoral, bucolic idealistic terms	14
8365203532	Villanelle	A french verse form, strictly calculated to appear simple and spontaneous; five tercets an a final quatrain, rhyming aha aha aha aha aha abaa. lines 1,6,12,18 and 3,9,15,19 are refrain	15