Poetry Terms- Praxis II
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- Ballad
- A short poem (anonymous author) with short verses --> intended to be sung/recited
- Canto
- Main section of a long poem
- Elegy
- Mournful lament for the dead
- Epic
- Long narrative detailing a hero\'s deeds
- Haiku
- Japanese poem, 17 syllables (3 lns--> 5, 7, 5)
- Limerick
- Humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines, aabba
- Lyric
- short, about personal feelings/emotions
- Sonnet
- 14 lines, Iambic pentameter, varied rhyme scheme, Petrarchan/Shakespearean, octave, sestet/3 quatrains and couplet.
- Stanza
- division of poetry named by number of lines