AP Poetry Types 2017 Flashcards

6523020371	limerick	A five line poem in which lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme.	0
6523023204	haiku	3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature	1
6523023205	ballad	A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas	2
6523025329	ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	3
6523028633	elegy	a sorrowful poem or speech	4
6523028634	villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	5
6523030871	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	6
6523034543	Shakespearean sonnet	14 lines consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg	7
6523036906	Spenserian sonnet	14 lines consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab bcbd cdcd ee	8
6523048443	Petrarchan sonnet	Italian 14 line poem comprised of an octave and sestet; abba, abba, cde, cde	9
6523056430	lyric poem	A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker	10
6523059290	pastoral poem	verses that idolizes rural life	11
6523067789	Gothic	Of the Middle Ages; of or relating to a mysterious, grotesque, and desolate style of fiction/poetry	12
6523071116	epic poetry	A long narrative poem about the adventures of an almost superhuman character	13
6523073527	blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	14
6523075423	sestina	6 six-line stanzas ending with tercet; last words of each line in 1st stanza are repeated as last words in next stanza	15
6523075424	closed form	A self-contained or explicitly limited form; having a resolved balance of tensions, a sense of calm completeness implying a totality within itself.	16
6523080747	cinquain	a short, five line, unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2,4, 6, 8, 2 in five lines.	17
6523087091	dramatic monologue	A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener. As readers, we overhear the speaker	18
6523089046	idyll	Presenting a positive, peaceful view of rural life (as poetry or prose); pleasant in a natural, simple way	19
6523091262	Horatian ode	Roman, equal-length stanzas with the same rhyme scheme and meter; it tends to be personal rather than formal	20
6523098672	Pindaric ode	Praise something publicly important with equal length stanzas and meter	21
6523103735	rhyme royal	7 lines, poetry, iambic pentameter, fixed rhyme scheme.	22
6523106156	rondeau	French lyrical; a 15-line poem made up of three stanzas. Each line of this type of poem has 8 to 10 syllables.	23
6523106157	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	24