Popular Poetic Forms Flashcards
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Narrative
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Tells a story. An epic is a narrative poem but of great length.
2
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Lyric
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Expresses observations and feelings about a subject.
3
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Dramatic
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Uses techniques of drama with monologue and dialogue
4
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Haiku (fixed form)
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5-7-5 syllables. 3 lines
5
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Ode (lyric poem)
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Celebrate a person, place, thing, or idea.
6
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Sonnet (fixed form)
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14 lines (rigid structure) with a strict rhyme scheme. 3 quatrains, one couplet.
(aba bcd cde fef gg).
7
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Ballad
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A story/narrative in poetic form.
8
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Limerick (fixed form)
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Humorous and rude. 5 lined fixed form. Strict rhyme scheme of AABBA. First, 2nd, 5th lines rhyme. 3rd and 4th are short and without rhyme.
