ap lit types of poem quiz

narrative tell stories; ex) "Paul Revere's Ride" ballad song or songlike poem that tells a story. The story is often about love, betrayal, or death. They usually have a regular, steady rhythm, a simple rhyme pattern, and a refrain, all of which make them easy to memorize. ex) "The Dying Cowboy" epic long narrative poems, originally passed down by word of mouth, that tell about heroes who embody the values of the culture recounting the tale. ex) "Beowulf" lyric usually don't tell a story. Instead, they express personal thoughts and feelings of the poet or the speaker. ex) "Birdfoot's Grandpa"...

Poetry says more than ordinary language, yet it says it with fewer words Rhyme is the pairing of two words that are the same expect for their first consonant sounds What is this line an example of? "O my Luve's like a red, red rose" simile What symbolizes an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable? /u What best defines theme? the message about life Poetry is written in verse A division of a poem named for the number of lines it contains is called a stanza The third line is an example of "I'm sorry to say so but,...

Ballad Long poem tells story usually folk or legend In rhyme often set with music Concrete Experiment with very materials of poem itself : words format and letter. The final product does what it say the meaning of poem demonstrated by words letters and format. Elegy Written to mourn the passing of something or someone Epic Very very long poem that tells the story Long enough to be a book by itself Epitaph About dead written on tombstone Short Epigram Very short Makes pithy pronouncement about something Usually written as a couplet Free verse Modern poetry no regular pattern rhythm...

Aerostic Poem spell a word with the first letter of each line of the poem. The length of the line can vary. Ballads "Dance songs" that usually tell a story, using quatrian Line train stanza within abcb rhyme scheme where lines 2 and 4 rhyme. Some ballads have more than one quatrain. Bio poem poem that focuses on a person or character from a story. It can focus on personality traits, physical descriptions, Family Ties, Hobbies, family relations, etc. Cinquain is a five-line poem. Line 1 has one word and is the title. Line 2 describes the title into words....

Lyric Poem Here is a rough definition of a lyric as it is written today: a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. Often a poet will write a lyric in the first person ("I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree"), but not always. A lyric can also be in the first person plural, as in Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask." Or, a lyric might describe an object or recall an experience without the speaker's ever bringing himself or herself into it. (For an example of such a lyric, one in...

Poetry defined A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination Narrative a story told in verse form; an epic is a narrative poem Lyric A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, having one of several rhyme schemes Sonnet A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, having one of several rhyme schemes English sonnet or Shakespearean sonnet (14 lines) Three quatrains followed by a couplet The most common rhyme scheme for this sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg Italian sonnet or Petrarchan sonnet (14...

A slow popular song typically about love, narrated, any light, simple song especially about romantic events. 2. Elegy: a sad poem or song: a poem or song that expresses sorrow for someone/Something who is dead 3. Epic: telling a story about a hero or about exciting events or adventures 4. Epitaph: something written or said in memory of a dead person; especially: words written on a gravestone 5. Idly: a simple poem or other piece of writing that describes peaceful country life 6. Imaging Poem: a 20th century movement in poetry advocating free verse and the expression of ideas and...

Mirror Author: Silvia Plath Theme: Age and youth I like to see it lap the miles Author: Emily Dickinson Theme: Beauty of Industry; Machines vs. Nature matches rhythm of train My Hearts in the Highlands Author: Robert Burns Theme: Love of home has parallelism Supercilious proud, arrogant Parallelism the placement of related ideas in similar in parallel or similar structures Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Author: William Shakespeare Theme: Brevity of Life in blank verse Blank Verse unrhymed iambic pentameter Sound and Sense Author: Alexander Pope Theme: Art; Imagination Allusion: Greek mythology The poem is about writing a poem Winter...

"The Names by: Billy Collins (free verse) "Sleeping in the Forest by: Mary Oliver (Lyric Poem ) "Two Limericks" by: Edward Lear (Limerick poem) "Gold" by: Pat Mora (Lyric Poem) "The World is not a Pleasant Place to Be" by: Nikki Giovanni "Annabel Lee" by: Edgar Allan Poe "Two Haiku" by: Matsuo Basho "Fireflies" by: Paul Fleischman "Fireflies in the Garden" by: Robert Frost "Jabberwocky" by: Lewis Carroll "Sarah Cynthia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" by: Shel Silverstein

Speaker/voice/persona Who "tells" the poem Line/sense of line A "unit" of poetry Stanza A group of lines (paragraph-like) Diction Word choice Rhythm Pace of the poem Rhythm is achieved by: How can a poet alter the rhythm of a poem? 1. Punctuation 2. Sense of line 3. Stanza 4. Word choice 5. Sound devices Figurative Language Words and phrases that represent more than they mean Metaphor Comparisons Simile Comparisons using the words "like" or "as" Symbol Things/words that have a universal or accepted representation (black cat= bad luck) Personification Giving human qualities to non-human things Hyperbole Exaggeration Imagery Paints a...