8182377125 | Consanance | the repitition of consonant sounds anywhere in the word, not just at the beginning | 0 | |
8182381288 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 1 | |
8182383532 | Feminine Rhyme | a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables | 2 | |
8182383533 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. | 3 | |
8182388886 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 4 | |
8182392645 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman | 5 | |
8182395577 | Anarchronism | something out of place because its from a different time period | 6 | |
8182402107 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 7 | |
8182402108 | Ballad | a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature | 8 | |
8182405676 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line | 9 | |
8182410060 | Lyric Poetry | A short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings | 10 | |
8182413484 | Petrarchan Sonnet | A fourteen-line lyric poem consisting of two parts, the octave and the sestet. | 11 | |
8182422233 | Spenserian Sonnet | A sonnet in which the lines are grouped into three interlocked quatrains and a couplet and the rhyme scheme is abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee. | 12 | |
8182426763 | Shakespearean Sonnet | a poetic form with three quatrains and a final couplet - ABAB CDCD EFEF GG | 13 | |
8182431331 | Asyndenton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 14 | |
8182434193 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 15 |
AP Literature Terminology 11/30 Flashcards
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