7556261556 | Sonnet | 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter | 0 | |
7556262823 | Form | The physical structure of a poem- length of the lines, the rhythm of the poem, and any systems of repetition | 1 | |
7556273960 | Spenserian Sonnet | abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee, with this rhyme of the poem. First 4 lines rhyme, 5-7 the last two sounds match the 1-4 lines, c sounds moves down to the 3rd | 2 | |
7556288096 | Shakespearean Sonnet | abab, cdcd, efef, gg. After he first quatrain he starts a new sound | 3 | |
7556295242 | Meter | a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines | 4 | |
7556299874 | Foot | different type of meter is measured by feet, number of syllables that are stressed and or unstressed as a part of the metrical pattern | 5 | |
7556308118 | Iamb (inspire, behold, abuse, arise, and awake) | foot containing an unaccented and short syllable followed by a long accented syllable in a single line of a poem (Ú unstressed. stressed) | 6 | |
7556321292 | Conceit | a metaphysical conceit, figure of speech which two vastly and incredibly different object and likened together with the help of comparative language | 7 | |
7556351078 | line | unit of language into which a poem or play is divided, while operates distinct form expressed with a punctuation mark | 8 | |
7556358165 | End stopped | A type of line in poetry, in which a pause comes at the end of a synaptic unit often expressed with a punctuation mark | 9 | |
7556366514 | Enjambment | A type of line where the thought moves to the next line without a punctuation mark | 10 | |
7556370388 | Couplet | A literary device that has 2 successive lines with the same meter from a complete thought and usually rhyme | 11 | |
7557380548 | Tercet | Three lines following some rhyming pattern | 12 | |
7557383567 | Quatrain | A set of four lines, could be a poem with four lines, that have an independent or separate theme | 13 | |
7557393051 | Cinquain | A stanza of five lines that may be rhymed or unrhymed | 14 | |
7557398221 | Sestet | A stanza that contains six lines, might have a rhyme scheme | 15 | |
7557403096 | Octave | A stanza of eight lines | 16 | |
7557406358 | Rhyme | The matching of final vowel and or consonant sounds in two or more words | 17 | |
7557414116 | Internal rhyme | A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line, rhyming with a word at the end of the line or the middle of the next line | 18 | |
7557422361 | End Rhyme | A person has lines ending with the words that sounds the same | 19 | |
7557429636 | Near/ Slant/ Half Rhyme | Rhyme in which the ending consonants match, but the vowel sounds do not | 20 | |
7557440389 | Blank Verse | Unrhymed, iambic contaminator- no rhyme, has to have 10 syllables | 21 | |
7557452652 | Villanelle | A 19-line poetic form, consisting of five tercets following by a quatrain | 22 | |
7557458914 | Sestina | A poem of six line stanzas with three lines at the end | 23 | |
7557463197 | Free Verse | Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme | 24 | |
7557474387 | Caesura | A pause within a line | 25 | |
7557475738 | Carpe Diem | Latin for seize the day | 26 | |
7557478041 | Ambiguity | word, phrase, or statement that contains one or more meanings | 27 | |
7557482438 | Ploce | Emphatic repetition of the word referring giving it special significance | 28 | |
7557490763 | Refrain | A verse or a phrase repeated throughout a poem, usually after a stanza | 29 | |
7557495988 | Rhythm | meter, a pattern of stress and unstressed syllables that create the meter of the poem | 30 | |
7557501399 | Stanza | A division of usually four or more lines that either have a fixed blank, meter, and or a rhythm scheme | 31 | |
7557510169 | Verse | Can be used to denote a line, a stanza, or another part of a poem | 32 |
Unit 2 AP Literature Flashcards
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