6536739138 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | ![]() | 0 |
6536739139 | allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event | ![]() | 1 |
6536739140 | antithesis | A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses. | ![]() | 2 |
6536739141 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | ![]() | 3 |
6536739142 | assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | ![]() | 4 |
6536739143 | ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four. | 5 | |
6536739144 | blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | ![]() | 6 |
6536739145 | cacaphony | Harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite o | ![]() | 7 |
6536739147 | conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 8 | |
6536739148 | consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | ![]() | 9 |
6536739149 | couplet | A pair of lines that end in rhyme | ![]() | 10 |
6536739152 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson | 11 | |
6536739153 | dramatic poem | A narrative poem in which one or more characters speak | 12 | |
6536739154 | elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech | 13 | |
6536739156 | enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. | ![]() | 14 |
6536739157 | extended metaphor | A metaphor that continues beyond it's initial use, can be developed at great length | ![]() | 15 |
6536739158 | euphony | pleasant, harmonious sound | ![]() | 16 |
6536739159 | eye rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling but does not rhyme because of pronunciation | ![]() | 17 |
6536739162 | free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 18 | |
6536739166 | irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | ![]() | 19 |
6536739167 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line | 20 | |
6536739168 | lyric poem | A short poem of songlike quality | ![]() | 21 |
6536739171 | meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry | ![]() | 22 |
6536739172 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | ![]() | 23 |
6536739174 | narrative poem | A poem that tells a story | ![]() | 24 |
6536739175 | octave | 8 line stanza | 25 | |
6536739179 | parallelism | A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures | ![]() | 26 |
6536739184 | quatrain | 4 line stanza | 27 | |
6536739185 | refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem. | 28 | |
6536739190 | satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. | ![]() | 29 |
6536739192 | sestet | 6 line stanza | 30 | |
6536739194 | sonnet | 14 line poem | ![]() | 31 |
6536739195 | stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 32 | |
6536739200 | synecdoche | . a figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole. "All hands on deck" is an example. | 33 | |
6536739202 | tercet | 3 line stanza | 34 | |
6536739203 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. | 35 | |
6536739206 | understatement | a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said | ![]() | 36 |
6536739207 | villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 37 |
AP English Poetry terms Flashcards
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