AP Poetry Terms you need to know!!
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| 6285551309 | foot | basic metrical unit of poetry, such as an iamb or an anapest |  | 0 |
| 6285551310 | stanza | group of lines in a poem; poetry equivalent of a paragraph |  | 1 |
| 6285551311 | iamb | U/ |  | 2 |
| 6285551312 | anapest | UU/ | 3 | |
| 6285551313 | trochee | /u | 4 | |
| 6285551314 | dactyl | /UU | 5 | |
| 6285551315 | spondee | // | 6 | |
| 6285551316 | monometer | one poetic foot per line | 7 | |
| 6285551317 | dimeter | two poetic feet in the line | 8 | |
| 6285551318 | trimeter | three poetic feet in the line | 9 | |
| 6285551319 | tetrameter | four poetic feet in the line | 10 | |
| 6285551320 | pentameter | five poetic feet in the line | 11 | |
| 6285551321 | hexameter | six poetic feet in the line | 12 | |
| 6285551322 | heptameter | seven poetic feet in the line | 13 | |
| 6285551323 | octameter | eight poetic feet in the line | 14 | |
| 6285551324 | nonometer | nine poetic feet in the line | 15 | |
| 6285551325 | couplet | two line stanza |  | 16 |
| 6285551326 | tercet | three line stanza |  | 17 |
| 6285551327 | quatrain | four line stanza |  | 18 |
| 6285551328 | cinquain | five line stanza | 19 | |
| 6285551329 | sestet | six line stanza | 20 | |
| 6285551330 | septet | seven line stanza | 21 | |
| 6285551331 | octave | eight line stanza | 22 | |
| 6285551332 | end rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the end of lines |  | 23 |
| 6285551335 | internal rhyme | rhyme occurring within lines |  | 24 |
| 6285551336 | slant rhyme | approximate rhyme |  | 25 |
| 6285551337 | ballad | narrative poem, usually written in quatrains, basic rhyme scheme, ballad meter |  | 26 |
| 6285551338 | lyric | emotional poem, personal in nature |  | 27 |
| 6285551339 | ode | lyric poem addressing subjects of an elevated nature |  | 28 |
| 6285551340 | elegy | formal lyric poem written in honor of someone who has died |  | 29 |
| 6285551341 | Petrarchan | 14 line sonnet with an octave and a sestet |  | 30 |
| 6285551342 | Shakespearean | 14 line sonnet with three quatrains and a couplet |  | 31 |
| 6285551343 | villanelle | type of poetry with tercets and alternatively repeating refrains that increase in intensity and meaning |  | 32 |
| 6285551344 | alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |  | 33 |
| 6285551345 | assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |  | 34 |
| 6285551346 | cacophony | unpleasant or harsh sounds |  | 35 |
| 6285551347 | conceit | a particularly clever extended metaphor |  | 36 |
| 6285551348 | euphony | pleasant sounds |  | 37 |
| 6285551349 | metaphor | comparison between unlike things |  | 38 |
| 6285551350 | synecdoche | referring to a part with the whole or vice versa ("Russia won the gold medal") |  | 39 |
| 6285551351 | onomatopoeia | words which have a sound that reflects its meaning |  | 40 |
| 6285551352 | iambic | pentameter most popular meter in English poetry | 41 | |
| 6285551353 | blankverse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 42 | |
| 6285551354 | freeverse | unrhymed verse with no standard meter |  | 43 |
| 6285551355 | caesura | pause |  | 44 |
| 6285551356 | enjambment | run-on line |  | 45 |
| 6285551357 | refrain | repeated line or phrase |  | 46 |
| 6285551358 | haiku | Japanese form of poetry using 3 lines and 17 syllables, employs a nature word and a contrast leading to enlightenment |  | 47 |
| 6285551359 | limerick | humorous or nonsense poem with anapestic aa3bb2a3 form |  | 48 |
| 6285551360 | sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final tercet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends |  | 49 |
| 6285551361 | canto | a section (grouping of stanzas) in a long work of poetry |  | 50 |
| 6285551362 | consonance | repetition of consonant sounds, not necessarily at the beginning of words |  | 51 |
| 6285551363 | epic | a long poem narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures |  | 52 |
| 6285551364 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |  | 53 |
| 6285551365 | understatement | presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is |  | 54 |
| 6285551366 | plosive | a "hard" consonant (such as T, K, P, D) |  | 55 |
| 6285551367 | allusion | reference to a commonly known historical, Biblical, or literary figure |  | 56 |
| 6285551368 | dramatic irony | irony in poetry, when the speaker's attitude differs from the poet's |  | 57 |
| 6285551369 | couplet | two-line stanza | 58 | |
| 6285551370 | tercet | three-line stanza | 59 | |
| 6285551371 | quatrain | four-line stanza | 60 | |
| 6285551372 | cinquain | five-line stanza | 61 | |
| 6285551373 | sestet | six-line stanza | 62 | |
| 6285551374 | septet | seven-line stanza | 63 | |
| 6285551375 | octave | eight-line stanza | 64 | |
| 6285551376 | denotation | Literal meaning Dictionary definition of a word |  | 65 |
| 6285551377 | connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning |  | 66 |
| 6285551378 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. |  | 67 |
| 6285551379 | personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |  | 68 |
| 6285551380 | metonymy | A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). |  | 69 |
| 6285551381 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. |  | 70 |
| 6285551382 | allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |  | 71 |
| 6285551383 | paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |  | 72 |
| 6285551384 | sarcasm | the use of irony to mock or convey contempt |  | 73 |
| 6285551385 | blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 74 | |
| 6285551386 | sentimental verse | emotional verse |  | 75 |
| 6285551387 | rhetorical verse | superficial language that really has little meaning |  | 76 |
| 6285551388 | didactic verse | a term for a poem that teaches, almost preaches. It often discusses the "proper" way to behave. The lesson being taught is more important to the writer than the artistic quality of the work |  | 77 |
