Study for AP Lit Poetry Terms Test from LivyClass
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| 4925760006 | Sonnet | Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem | 0 | |
| 4925760007 | Stanza | Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 1 | |
| 4925760008 | Symbol | Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else | 2 | |
| 4925760011 | Tercet | A stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme | 3 | |
| 4925760014 | Litote | The opposite of hyperbole; a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is, a form of understatement that takes the negative of the opposite adjective. ex: not bad | 4 | |
| 4925760016 | Elegy | A sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme | 5 | |
| 4925760017 | Enjambment / End Stopped Line | a run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carry over from one line into the next. Thus line differs from an end stopped line in which the grammatical and logical sense is completed within the line. | 6 | |
| 4925760018 | Euphony | A style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate; the opposite of cacophony, in which the sounds are harsh and discordant. | 7 | |
| 4925760019 | Figurative language | Writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) such as metaphor, irony, and simile; uses words to mean something other than their literal meaning | 8 | |
| 4925760020 | Free verse | Poetry which is not written in traditional meter but is still rhythmical | 9 | |
| 4925760021 | Hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration; used for either serious or comic effect | 10 | |
| 4925760023 | Lyric poem | Any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings | 11 | |
| 4925760025 | Meter | The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry | 12 | |
| 4925760030 | Pun | A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings; can have serious as well as humorous uses | 13 | |
| 4925760031 | Quatrain | A four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes | 14 | |
| 4925760034 | Alliteration | The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words | 15 | |
| 4925760036 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present | 16 | |
| 4925760037 | Assonance & internal rhyme | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, often to create rhyme between words in the same line | 17 | |
| 4925760038 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 18 | |
| 4925760039 | Cacophony | A harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones; it may be an unconscious flaw in the poet's music, resulting in harshness of sound or difficulty of articulation, or it may be used consciously for effect | 19 | |
| 4925760040 | Caesura | A pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause | 20 | |
| 4925760041 | Consonance | The 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. has the effect of near/slant/off rhyme where the sounds are almost but not exactly alike. | 21 | |
| 4925760042 | Couplet | A two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same | 22 | |
| 4925760044 | Connotation | The personal and emotional associations called up by a word that go beyond its dictionary meaning. | 23 | |
| 4925760047 | Ballad | Narrative poem or song written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. tells story in a number of short regular stanzas | 24 | |
| 4925760048 | Iambic pentameter | A line of poetry with 5 feet of iambs, which is an unstressed and then a stressed syllable | 25 | |
| 4925816672 | archetype | a symbol, theme, setting, or character-type that recurs in different times and places in myth, literature, folklore, dreams, and rituals so frequently or prominently as to suggest that it embodies some essential elements of "universal" human experience. ex: rose, serpent, sun, themes like love, death, etc. most fundamental is of death and rebirth, like the seasons | 26 | |
| 4925827833 | allegory | a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meaning that lie outside the narrative itself. the underlying meaning has moral,social, religious, or political significance, and characters are personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy. | 27 | |
| 4925835054 | Blank Verse | unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter | 28 | |
| 4925840774 | Aubade | a song or instrumental compositions concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak. A poem or song about lovers separating at dawn. | 29 | |
| 4925902500 | Paraphrase | A restatement of a text or passage in other form or other words, often to clarify meaning. | 30 | |
| 4925910857 | Dramatic Monologue | a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himslef or herself and the dramatic situation | 31 | |
| 4925927752 | End Rhyme | In poetry, a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses | 32 | |
| 4925938519 | Elision | the omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry. | 33 | |
| 4925955457 | Colloquialism / Jargon / Dialect | a special use of a common word in a certain geogrraphical region or a word/ phrase particular to a region / the specialized language of a professional occupations or other group / regional social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation,grammar,vocab | 34 | |
| 4925977956 | epic | a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero. | 35 | |
| 4925980324 | foot | two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of a rhyme in a poem | 36 | |
| 4925983465 | couplet / heroic couplet | a pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. the heroic versions of these is a verse consisting of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter. | 37 | |
| 4926018701 | style | Analyzing author's ____ involves understanding the particular way a piece is written. key aspects include sentence length / variation / position, sensory details, figurative language, sound devices, dialogue, diction, tone, irony, etc | 38 |
