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Poetic Devices and Terms AP Literature Flashcards

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5809233603Scansionis the system for describing conventional rhythms by dividing lines into feet.0
5809238238Metrical Rhythma pattern stronger and weaker stresses or accents in the syllables of line.1
5809240009Polysyllabic wordsmore than one syllable2
5809242612Monosyllabic wordsone syllable3
5809245087Meterrhythmic patterns that prevail in English poetry4
5809262738Duple feet-one accented syllable and one unaccented syllable. (X= unaccented and /= accented)5
5809266179Triple feetone accented and two unaccented syllables6
5809269692Iambduple rising (x/ x/ x/ x/ x/)7
5809273766Trocheeduple falling (/x /x /x /x )8
5809275282Anapesttriple rising (xx/ xx/ xx/ )9
5809279502Dactyltriple falling (/xx /xx)10
5809281603Monometerone foot11
5809286290Hexametersix feet12
5809288392Heptameterseven feet often heard as four plus three13
5809879347Octametereight feet14
5809882944Caesuraa pause or break in the line, variously placed that modifies the regularity of the meter.15
5809886016Enjambmentcontinuation of the sense and grammatical construction into the next line.16
5809888682Stanzaregular recurring groupings of two or more lines.17
5809892858Balladnarrative poem often using common meter and sometimes including a refrain. (one or more words repeated at intervals in a poem)18
5809897385Sestinaa fixed poetic form of six, six-lined stanzas and a three-line envoy.19
5809900526Villanellefixed form borrowed from early French poetry with nineteen lines (five stanzas of three lines, a last stanza of four lines) of any length or meter and two rhymes only, aba, employed in a set pattern.20
5809901648Formthe organization of the parts of the poem in relation to its total effect21
5809906195Structure-the framework of the piece of poetry; sequence of images and ideas that carry meaning is conveyed via grammar, syntax, and rhetorical devices.22
5809909305Syntax-component of grammar; ordering, grouping, and placement of words in a sentence/line.23
5809913692Iambic pentameterfive feet24
5809916312Trochaic tetrameterfour feet25
5809917731Anapestic trimeterthree feet26
5809920242Dactylic dimetertwo feet27
5809928987rising footaccented syllable at the end28
5809932368falling footaccented syllable at the beginning29

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