AP Literature: Genre (Poetry) Flashcards

7446769227	Ballad	A narrative folk song; it is traced back to the Middle Ages. These were usually created by common people and passed orally due to the illiteracy of the time. Subjects of these poems were often killings, feuds, important historical events, and rebellion	0
7446780261	Elegy (elegiac)	A type of literature defined as a song or poem, written in couples of this type, that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died	1
7446807935	Epic	A long poem in a lofty style about the exploits of heroic figures. These often come from an oral tradition of shared authorship or from a single, high-profile poet imitating the style	2
7446815738	Lyric	A song-like poem written mainly to express the feeling of emotions or thought from a particular person, thus separating it from narrative poems. These poems are generally short, averaging roughly twelve to thirty lines, and rarely go beyond sixty lines. These poems express vivid imagination as well as emotion and all flow fairly concisely.	3
7446853479	Narrative poem	A poem that tells a story. It can come in many forms and styles, both complex and simple, short or long, as long as it tells a story. A few examples are epics, ballads, and metrical romances.	4
7446861729	Ode	Usually a lyric poem of moderate length, with a serious subject, an elevated style, and an elaborate stanza pattern. It often praises people, the arts of music and poetry, natural scenes, or abstract concepts.	5
7446869094	Sonnet	A fixed form of fourteen lines, normally iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme conforming to or approximating one of two main types -- the Italian or the English	6