6424577329 | alliteration | the repitition of the initial consonant sounds in neighboring words | 0 | |
6424578755 | assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words | 1 | |
6424580926 | blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, which must not be confused with free verse | 2 | |
6424585671 | cacophony | harsh, clashing, or dissonant sounds, often produced by combinations of words that require a clipped, explosive delivery, or words that contain a number of plosive consonants | 3 | |
6424591619 | consonance | the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different | 4 | |
6424594507 | couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and are written to the same meter, or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 5 | |
6424597642 | dramatic monologue | a kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent audience of one or more persons. such poems reveal not the poet's own thoughts, but the mind of the impersonated character. | 6 | |
6424604745 | end-stopped line | a line brought to a pause at which the end of a verse line coincides with the completion of a sentence, clause, or other independent unit of syntax. it is the opposite of enjambment. | 7 | |
6424611480 | enjambment | the running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse line or couplet to the next without a punctuated pause | 8 | |
6424614423 | epic | a long narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of one or more legendary heroes in a grand style | 9 | |
6424618553 | euphony | a pleasing smoothness of sound, perceived by the ease with which the words can be spoken in combination | 10 | |
6424621759 | foot | the basic unit of rhythmic measurement in a line of poetry | 11 | |
6424623816 | free verse | poetry that is free of rhyme and meter and it resembles natural speech | 12 | |
6424628499 | heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc, with the thought usually completed in the two line unit | 13 | |
6424632366 | iamb | a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, an unaccented syllable followed by an accented as in the word invade. | 14 | |
6424636553 | lyric | a usually short, personal poem expressing the poet's emotions and thoughts rather than telling a story | 15 | |
6424639325 | meter | the pattern of measured sound-units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verse | 16 | |
6424642859 | octave | a group of eight verse lines forming the first part of a sonnet; or a stanza of eight lines | 17 | |
6424645205 | ode | an elaborately formal lyric poem, often in the form of a lengthy address to a person or abstract entity, always serious and elevated in tone | 18 | |
6424648521 | pastoral | a poem dealing with shepherds and rural life | 19 | |
6424649954 | pentameter | a line of five feet. iambic _________, normally ten syllables, has had special status as the standard line in many poetry forms | 20 | |
6424653327 | quatrain | a verse stanza of four lines, rhymed or unrhymed | 21 | |
6424654839 | refrain | a line, group of lines, or part of a line repeated at regular or irregular intervals in a poem | 22 | |
6424658265 | rhyme | a similarity of sound between two words | 23 | |
6424658266 | end rhyme | rhyme which comes at the ends of lines of poetry | 24 | |
6424661800 | internal rhyme | rhyme which comes within the line of poetry rather than at the usual end of the line | 25 | |
6424663763 | feminine rhyme | two-syllable rhyme | 26 | |
6424665176 | forced rhyme | meaning in the poem suffers because of the stilted nature of the rhyme | 27 | |
6424667154 | masculine rhyme | one-syllable rhyme | 28 | |
6424667155 | exact rhyme | identical rhyme between two words | 29 | |
6424671416 | slant rhyme | inexact rhyme between two words | 30 | |
6424671417 | eye rhyme | rhyme based on spelling rather than sound | 31 | |
6424673088 | rhythm | the patterned flow of sound in poetry and prose. | 32 | |
6424677284 | scansion | analyzing the meter in lines of poetry by counting and marking the accented and unaccented syllables, and dividing the lines into metrical feet | 33 | |
6424683305 | sonnet | a fourteen-line lyric poem in iambic pentameter | 34 | |
6424684797 | english sonnet | rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg. also called shakespearean sonnet. | 35 | |
6424688324 | italian sonnet | rhyme scheme of abba, abba, cde, cde. also called petrarchan sonnet. | 36 | |
6424691620 | stanza | a section or division of a poem, resembling paragraphs in prose | 37 | |
6424693534 | stress | the emphasis placed on a word or syllable | 38 | |
6424693535 | trochee | a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable, as in the word FORtune. it's the opposite of an iamb. | 39 |
AP Literature - Poetry Terms Flashcards
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