6188365083 | alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds Example"Silence surged softly..." | 0 | |
6188365084 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds Examples: "purple curtain," "young love" | 1 | |
6188365085 | cacophony | harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds, surges lash the sounding shore. | 2 | |
6188365086 | consonance | the repetition of final consonants in stressed syllables Example: "east and west" " break look sink" | 3 | |
6188365087 | euphony | pleasing sounds smooth sounding combination of words. "season of mists mellow fruitfulness" | 4 | |
6188365088 | meter | a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | 5 | |
6188365089 | foot | are the individual building blocks of meter. basic unit used in scansion or measurment | 6 | |
6188365090 | Iambic | duh-DUH, as in "above" | 7 | |
6188365091 | Anapest | duh-duh-DUH as in "but of course" | 8 | |
6188365092 | Dactyl | DUH-duh-duh, as in "honestly" | 9 | |
6188365093 | Trochee | DUH-duh, as in "pizza" | 10 | |
6188365095 | Iambic pentameter | duh-DUH (five iambic feet in one line...Shakespearean sonnets) | 11 | |
6188365097 | slant rhyme | two words are alike in some sounds, but do not rhyme exactly (Example: now and know) | 12 | |
6188365098 | End rhyme | occurring at the ends of lines (the most common type of rhyme) | 13 | |
6188365099 | Internal rhyme | rhyme occurring within a line | 14 | |
6188365101 | rhythm | the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern | 15 | |
6188365108 | free verse | unrhymed poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter. It seeks to capture the rhythms of speech | 16 | |
6188365115 | Shakespearean/English sonnet | a sonnet which consists of three quatrains and a couplet. The most common rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. | 17 | |
6188365116 | Petrarchan/Italian sonnet | a sonnet which consists of an octave and a sestet with the rhyme scheme being abbaabba cdecde. There is usually a pronounced tonal shift between the octave and sestet as well. | 18 | |
6188365119 | caesura | A pause or break in meter/ metrical pattern | 19 | |
6188365122 | enjambment | the continuation of a verse over a line break | 20 | |
6188365125 | refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem | 21 | |
6188365128 | apostrophe | when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed. | 22 | |
6188365130 | metaphor | unexpected comparison between two unalike things; extended is metaphor | 23 | |
6188365132 | personfication | giving human qualities to an inanimate object or force | 24 | |
6188365136 | metonymy | the use of something closely related instead of the actual thing Ex: "those guns will fire" the police are obvi firing the guns | 25 | |
6188365137 | synechdoche | using a part for a whole Ex: get your butt over here | 26 | |
6188365139 | olfactory imagery | smell descriptions | 27 | |
6188365140 | figurative language | writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally | 28 | |
6188571289 | gustatory imagery | taste descriptions | 29 | |
6188573568 | tactile imagery | touch description/ how something feels | 30 | |
6188577580 | Auditory imagery | hearing decriptions | 31 | |
6188581199 | visual imagery | sight descriptions | 32 | |
6188585168 | hyperbole | overstatement " I have 100000 degree fever" | 33 | |
6188587653 | understatement | opposite of hyperbole; The car couldn't even fit a mouse | 34 | |
6188595596 | simile | comparison between two things using like or as | 35 | |
6188598515 | irony | a situation involving some sense of incongruity or discrepancy (mainly situational) | 36 | |
6188611406 | scansion | the process of measuring metrical verse | 37 | |
6188616484 | anaphora | repetition of opening word of phrase | 38 | |
6188619178 | oxymoron | combination of contradictory terms next to each other "the heavy feather" | 39 | |
6188627828 | paradox | statement or situation containing apparent contradictory/ incompatible " my life closed twice before its closed" | 40 | |
6188638665 | antithesis | juxtaposition with balanced phrases "either to rend me or befriend me" | 41 | |
6188644052 | juxtaposition | contrast/ opposite: tone, syntax, setting, symbolism | 42 | |
6188652330 | pun | a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. *picture of toucan* " Toucan play that game" | 43 | |
6188673181 | tone | an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. | 44 | |
6188674877 | syntax | determines how the chosen words are used to form a sentence " i'm going to the store v going to the store I am" | 45 | |
6188688676 | onomatopia | word mimics sound "splatt" | 46 |
Poetic Terms AP Literature Flashcards
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