Study for AP Lit Poetry Terms Test from LivyClass
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| 1333890415 | Simile | A directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with "like," as," or "than." | 0 | |
| 1333890416 | Sonnet | Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem | 1 | |
| 1333890417 | Stanza | Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 2 | |
| 1333890418 | Symbol | Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else | 3 | |
| 1333890419 | Synecdoche | A form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole | 4 | |
| 1333890420 | Syntax | The ordering of words into patterns or sentences | 5 | |
| 1333890421 | Tercet | A stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme | 6 | |
| 1333890422 | Theme | The main thought expressed by a work | 7 | |
| 1333890423 | Tone | The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning | 8 | |
| 1333890424 | Litote | The opposite of hyperbole; a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is | 9 | |
| 1333890425 | Villanelle | A nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain; uses only two rhymes which are repeated as follows: aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa; line 1 is repeated entirely to form lines 6, 12, and 18, and line 3 is repeated entirely to form lines 9, 15, and 19; thus, eight of the nineteen lines are refrain | 10 | |
| 1333890426 | Eelegy | A sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme | 11 | |
| 1333890427 | Enjambment | The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next | 12 | |
| 1333890428 | Euphony | A style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate; the opposite of cacophony | 13 | |
| 1333890429 | 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 | 14 | |
| 1333890430 | Free verse | Poetry which is not written in traditional meter but is still rhythmical | 15 | |
| 1333890431 | Hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration; used for either serious or comic effect | 16 | |
| 1333890432 | Imagery | The images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work | 17 | |
| 1333890433 | Lyric poem | Any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings | 18 | |
| 1333890434 | Metaphor | A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as," "like," or "than | 19 | |
| 1333890435 | Meter | The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry | 20 | |
| 1333890436 | Metonymy | A figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in a mind for the word itself | 21 | |
| 1333890437 | Oxymoron | A form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression; usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness | 22 | |
| 1333890438 | Personification | A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 23 | |
| 1333890439 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning | 24 | |
| 1333890440 | 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 | 25 | |
| 1333890441 | Quatrain | A four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes | 26 | |
| 1333890442 | Refrain | A group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza | 27 | |
| 1333890443 | Rhyme | Close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse | 28 | |
| 1333890444 | Alliteration | The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words | 29 | |
| 1333890445 | Antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas; a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness | 30 | |
| 1333890446 | 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 | 31 | |
| 1333890447 | Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 32 | |
| 1333890448 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | 33 | |
| 1333890449 | 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 | 34 | |
| 1333890450 | 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 | 35 | |
| 1333890451 | 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 | 36 | |
| 1333890452 | Couplet | A two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same | 37 | |
| 1333890453 | Diction | The deliberate use of words in a literary work | 38 | |
| 1333890454 | Connotations | The personal and emotional associations called up by a word that go beyond its dictionary meaning. | 39 | |
| 1333890455 | Ode | A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form | 40 | |
| 1333890456 | Mood | An atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected. | 41 | |
| 1333890457 | Ballad | Narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. | 42 | |
| 1333890458 | Iambic pentameter | A line of poetry with 5 feet of iambs, which is an unstressed and then a stressed syllable | 43 | |
| 1333890459 | Rhyme scheme | The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. | 44 |
