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| 14793404049 | alliteration | repetition of identical consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words ex: gnus never know pneumonia --> all begin with "n" sound | 0 | |
| 14793405768 | allusion | a reference to something | 1 | |
| 14793406256 | antithesis | figure of speech with contrasting words, clauses, sentences, ideas, etc. ex: one step for man, one giant leap for mankind memory trick: "anti" = against or opposite | 2 | |
| 14793407993 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction "sing, muse" in Iliad (or whatever the line was lol) | 3 | |
| 14793410461 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds; kinda like alliteration but with vowels instead of consonants ex: the cAt rAn After the Alligator who wAs trying to Assist An Alarmed Armadillo to get Across a river --> repeated "A" sound | 4 | |
| 14793419556 | asyndeton | conjunctions as left out ex: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil memory trick: the "a" in "asyndeton" means "without" (at least i think it does lol) | 5 | |
| 14793424245 | ballad meter | four line stanza rhymed ABCB with four feet in lines 1 and 3 and three feet in lines 2 and 4 ex: O Mother, mother make my bed / O make it soft and narrow / Since my love died for me today, / I'll die for him tomorrow | 6 | |
| 14793431289 | blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter; most of Shakespeare's plays | 7 | |
| 14793432083 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones. May be an unconscious flaw in the poet's music, resulting in harshness of sound or difficulty in articulation, or it may be used consciously for effect. ex: Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast? note: some harsh sounds are like "guh" and "cuh" memory tip: ca-COUGH-phony --> COUGH = unpleasant and harsh | 8 | |
| 14793446820 | caesura | a pause, usually in the middle of a line ex: oh say can you see [PAUSE] by the dawn's early light | 9 | |
| 14793450396 | conceit | ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through elaborate analogy and finds a similarity between two dissimilar objects; can be a brief metaphor but also framework for entire poem ex: dead as a doornail memory trick: "conceit" = think a lot about yourself = have really complex thoughts about yourself = probably finds a way to compare yourself to a lot of different things bc you're so "fanciful" and whatnot | 10 | |
| 14793459978 | consonance | repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words; usually refers to words in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowels that precede them are different ex: "add" and "read"; "bill" and "ball"; "born" and "burn" | 11 | |
| 14793461857 | couplet | two line stanza, usually with end rhymes | 12 | |
| 14793462970 | devices of sound | used to deploy the sound of words; rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia; used to create either pleasant/unpleasant sounds or reflect meaning | 13 | |
| 14793466183 | diction | use of words in literary work; in a very general sense, its the way the author speaks through their writing; Declaration of Independence has very formal diction while texts have very informal diction | 14 | |
| 14793469399 | didactic poem | used to each a lesson; how to determine if something is a didactic poem is hard b/c it involves subjective judgement of author's purpose ex: Milton's "Paradise Lost" | 15 | |
| 14793476997 | dramatic poem | dramatic monologue (is an example); suppose to reveal something about the speaker | 16 | |
| 14793478497 | elegy | a formal poem presenting a meditation on death or another solemn theme | 17 | |
| 14793482892 | end-stopped | line with pause at the end; lines that end with punctuation | 18 | |
| 14793483866 | enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza; the thought process/flow of the poem does not always end at the end of a line ex: Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd / Fast by the oracle of God --> see how the thought after "flow'd" continues onto the next line ("Fast by the...") | 19 | |
| 14793489828 | extended metaphor | metaphor carried throughout a stanza or entire poem | 20 | |
| 14793490607 | euphony | pleasantly wounding words predominate; opposite of cacophony ex: A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / It's loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing | 21 | |
| 14793493995 | eye rhyme | words that LOOK like they rhyme but don't ex: "watch" and "match"; "tomb" and "bomb"; "love" and "move" | 22 | |
| 14793498205 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme of 2 syllables, one stressed and one unstressed; AKA double rhyme ex: "waken" and "forsaken"; "audition" and "rendition" | 23 | |
| 14793501050 | figurative language | uses figure of speech like metaphor, irony, and simile | 24 | |
| 14793501828 | free verse | no traditional meter but still rhythmical; no length or pattern ex: I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. | 25 | |
| 14793523224 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit ex: But when to mischief mortals bend their will, / How soon they find fit instruments of ill! | 26 | |
| 14793531838 | hyperbole | exaggeration ex: if you look at me like that again, i will CUT YOU | 27 | |
| 14793532962 | imagery | sensory details of a work | 28 | |
| 14793533998 | irony | contrast between actual meaning and suggested other meaning; verbal irony is figure of speech where the actual intent is expressed in words that carry the opposite meaning; lighter and less harsh than sarcasm | 29 | |
| 14793535972 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line rather at the end ex: Jack and Jill went up a Hill to fetch a pail of water / Jack fell down and broke his crown / and Jill came tumbling down after | 30 | |
| 14793543349 | lyric poem | any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings; sonnets and odes = lyric poems | 31 | |
| 14793544915 | masculine rhyme | rhyme falls on stressed and the last syllables of rhyme-working ex: "keep" and "sleep"; "spell" and "impell" | 32 | |
| 14793546536 | metaphor | compares two things directly | 33 | |
| 14793548613 | meter | repetition of a rhythm in a line of poetry; relates to subject of poem; each meter = a foot | 34 | |
| 14793551578 | metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it ex: "the crown" = the king | 35 | |
| 14793553616 | mixed metaphor | a metaphor that is followed by another metaphor that is unrelated completely to the first metaphor; a lot of inconsistent metaphors ex: If we want to get ahead we'll have to iron out the remaining bottlenecks | 36 | |
| 14793565717 | narrative poem | non-dramatic poems that tell a story; epic sna dballads are examplse | 37 | |
| 14793566468 | octave | eight line stanza; refer to first division of an italian sonnet (whatever that means...) | 38 | |
| 14793573876 | onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they mean --> BANG, hiss, buzz, honk | 39 | |
| 14793575459 | oxymoron | a paradox that combines two opposite terms in a single expression ex: act natural; pretty ugly; wise fool; loud silence | 40 | |
| 14793576566 | paradox | situation/action that appears to be contradictory but turns out to be true or at least make sense ex: Take me to you, imprison me, for I / Expect you to enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me | 41 | |
| 14793580470 | parallelsim | similar grammatic structure | 42 | |
| 14793580471 | paraphrase | summarizing | 43 | |
| 14793581177 | personification | metaphor that gives non-humans human-like qualities BEWARE: the birds danced in the field VS the leaves danced in the wind --> the first one isn't really a personification...idk just search it up | 44 | |
| 14793590763 | poetic foot | group of syllables in a verse that consists of one accented syllable and 1-2 unaccented syllables associated with it; most common feet are: - iambic --> unstressed, stressed - trochaic --> stressed, unstressed - anapestic --> unstressed 2x, stressed - dactylic --> stressed, unstressed 2x = pyrrhic --> unstressed 2x - spondaic --> stressed 2x |  | 45 |
| 14793607338 | polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions; a "punching" effect | 46 | |
| 14793608308 | pun | play on words blah blah blah | 47 | |
| 14793612525 | quatrain | four line stanza with any combo of rhymes | 48 | |
| 14793614033 | refrain | a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at end of the stanza; a lot of songs have this |  | 49 |
| 14793618268 | rhyme | words that sound the similar; for true rhyme, the vowels in accented syllables must be preceded by different consonants, such as "fan" and "ran" | 50 | |
| 14793623307 | rhyme royal | a 7 line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ABABBCC, |  | 51 |
| 14793625947 | rhythm | recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables; lends both pleasure and heightened emotional response ex: Double double, toil and trouble / fire burn and cauldron bubble | 52 | |
| 14793629139 | sarcasm | type of irony where someone appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it | 53 | |
| 14793629764 | satire | writing to arouse a reader's disapproval by ridiculing it; usually comedy that exposes errors ex: when WhatsHisFace suggested the poor sell their children for the wealthy to eat | 54 | |
| 14793647897 | scansion | system for describing a meter of poem by identifying the number and types of feet per line - monometer = 1 foot per line - dimeter = two feet per line - trimeter = three feet per line....etc ex: line with five iambic feet is an iambic pentameter | 55 | |
| 14793659468 | how to determine the meter of a poem | oof i wish i could tell you but i literally have no idea...but it's probably gonna be on the test so make sure you can do this | 56 | |
| 14793662204 | sestet | six line stanza; usually second division of an italian sonnet | 57 | |
| 14793662969 | simile | boy if you need the definition for this.... |  | 58 |
| 14793664094 | sonnet | normally a 14 line iambic pentameter poem | 59 | |
| 14793664876 | stanza | usually a repeated grouping of 3 or more lines with the same meter and rhyme | 60 | |
| 14793665603 | rhetorical strategy | literally all of AP Lang; management of language for a specific effect | 61 | |
| 14793667142 | structure | arrangement of materials within a work; most common units of structure in a poem are the line and the stanza | 62 | |
| 14793667912 | symbol | something that represents itself and also something else ex: winter and cold are legit things, but they also symbolize death | 63 | |
| 14793668904 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa ex: check out my wheels = check out my car; we often use the capitals of countries to represent the country | 64 | |
| 14793676043 | syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences | 65 | |
| 14793676044 | tercet | stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme | 66 | |
| 14793676588 | terza rima | three line stanza rhymed ABA, BCB, CDC, etc | 67 | |
| 14793677122 | theme | main thought expressed throughout the work | 68 | |
| 14793677634 | tone | the AUTHOR's attitude towards something; can be the result of allusion, diction, etc | 69 | |
| 14793680980 | understatement | opposite of hyperbole ex: when I took a 5 hour nap and then only had 4 hours to write 3 pages of my essay and y'all just pressed "F" in the chat | 70 | |
| 14793683332 | villanelle | 19 line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain; only uses two rhymes ABA 5x and then ABAA; line 1 is repeated to form lines 6, 12, 18; line 3 is repeted to form lines 9, 15, 19; thus, 8/19 lines are refrain | 71 | |
| 14793687233 | zeugma | figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in a different sense ex: the weeping of eyes and hearts; the farmers in the valley grew carrots, potatoes, and bored. | 72 |
