8294479681 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. | 0 | |
8294485848 | Epistrophe | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses | 1 | |
8294496740 | Anapestic | A foot in poetry with two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. | 2 | |
8294501959 | Dactylic | A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables | 3 | |
8294508093 | Spondaic | Two stressed syllables | 4 | |
8294511985 | Conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor | 5 | |
8294516744 | Terza Rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. | 6 | |
8294562543 | Heroic Couplet | A pair of rhymed, iambic pentameter lines. | 7 | |
8294566789 | Lamb | Young sheep | 8 | |
8294570212 | Sestina | A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter. | 9 | |
8294573516 | Villanelle | A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern | 10 | |
8294577239 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | 11 |
AP Literature Terminology 12 Dec. Flashcards
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