Poetic Forms Flashcards

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Narrative poetry

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Poetry that tells a story to entertain

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Lyrical poetry

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Short poem of personal feelings and emotions, which may or may not be set to music and often involves the use of regular meter

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Humorous poetry

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Poetry that deals with amusing happenings

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Free Verse poetry

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Poetry composed of rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set patterns

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Quatrain

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Poem of 4 lines. Lines two and four rhyme; lines one and three may or may not rhyme

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Cinquain

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Has five lines: line one is one word (title); line 2 is two words that describes the title; line 3 is three words that tell the action; line 4 is four words that express the feeling; line 5 is one word that recalls the title

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Shape poem

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Poetry written in the shape or form of an object

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Acrostic poem

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Poetry that certain letters, usually the first in each line form a word or message read in a sequence

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Epitaph

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Written to praise or to reflect on the life of the deceased person

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Haiku

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Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables

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Limerick

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Short humorous poem of consisting of five lines: lines 1, 2, and five of a limerick have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with eachother

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Epic poetry

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A long narrative poem usually chronicling the deeds of a folk hero and written using that’s dramatic and narrative literary techniques

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Sonnet

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A lyric poem that consist of 14 lines that usually have one or more conventional rhyme schemes

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Diamanté

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A diamanté has seven lines: line one is a one word subject that is opposite of line 7; line two is two adjectives which describe the subject in line one; line three is three verbs relating to the subject in line one; line four is two nouns related to the subject of line one, followed by two nouns related to the subject in line 7, line 5 is three verbs related to the subject in line 7; line 6 is two adjectives which describes the subject in line seven; line 5 is a one word subject that is opposite of line 1

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