AP literature Terms Poetry Flashcards

5340969021	aubade	lyric poem delivered at dawn or about dawn, renewal, love blossoming, or any other kind of "new"	0
5340976178	ballad	a song-like poem	1
5340979187	elegy	a type of literature defined as a song or poem that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died	2
5340985438	epigram	a short poem or verse that seeks to ridicule a thought or event, usually with witticism or sarcasm	3
5340992017	epitaph	a short poem or verse written in memory of someone, usually short and often written in death or as a eulogy	4
5340999588	limerick	a short humorous poem composed of five lines that usually has the rhyme scheme aabba, created by two rhyming couplets and a fifth line	5
5341008741	lyric	a song-like poem written mainly to express the feelings or emotions of a single speaker	6
5341015000	villanelle	French, 19 lines, five tercets followed by a quatrain, aba aba aba aba aba abaa	7
5341026909	sonnet	usually 14 lines	8
5341029893	narrative	a poem that tells a story	9
5341031985	ode	long, serious poem that treats a noble or elevated subject in a dignified manner	10
5341037866	epic	long narrative poem that recounts the adventures of a hero to almost mythic proportions	11
5341042052	haiku	a traditional form of Japanese poetry that usually deals with nature, 3 lines and describes a single moment, feeling, or thing, the first and third line have 5 syllables and the second line contains 7 syllables	12
5341054015	sestina	French verse form consisting of 6 sestets and a 3-line envoy (a brief, concluding stanza of a poem, often addressed to a patron, important person, or abstract entity)	13
5341074746	Italian or Petrarchan sonnet	usually written in iambic pentameter. it consists first of an octave, or 8 lines, which asks a question or states a problem or proposition and follows the rhyme scheme abba abba. the sestet, or last 6 lines, offers an answer or resolution to the proposed problem and follows the rhyme scheme cdecde	14
5341094780	English or Shakespearean sonnet	3 quatrains with independent rhyme schemes with alternating rhyme, ending with a rhyming couplet. break between the 12th and 13th lines. the ending couplet is the main thought change of the poem and has an epigrammatic ending. abab cdcd efef gg	15
5341115559	Spenserian sonnet	follows same basic form as English sonnet with 3 quatrains rhyming abab bcbc cdcd to link quatrains with a couplet of ee	16
5341127548	almost sonnets	curtal sonnet- 10 line form divided into 6 line stanza with 4 line stanza inverted sonnet- flipped the form, beginning with the couplet	17
5341138265	two line stanza	couplet	18
5341142301	three line stanza	tercet	19
5341142302	four line stanza	quatrain	20
5341146994	five line stanza	cinquain or quintet	21
5341150189	six line stanza	sestet or sextet	22
5341152591	seven line stanza	septet	23
5341154798	eight line stanza	octave	24
5341154799	fourteen line stanza	sonnet	25
5341163985	meter	regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables	26