AP English Poetry Terms
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| use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | ||
| a reference to another work of literature, person, or event | ||
| the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | ||
| A figure of speech in which the speaker adresses a person that is dead or not present. | ||
| the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | ||
| a loud harsh or strident noise | ||
| a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | ||
| the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | ||
| a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse | ||
| a writer's or speaker's choice of words | ||
| a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson | ||
| a song or poem memorializing something or someone | ||
| a term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation | ||
| the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | ||
| a metaphor which extends over several lines or an entire poem | ||
| any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds | ||
| writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | ||
| Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme | ||
| extravagant exaggeration | ||
| Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | ||
| a rhyme between words in the same line | ||
| comparison not using like or as | ||
| a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | ||
| symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House) | ||
| a poem that tells a story | ||
| a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse | ||
| using words that imitate the sound they denote | ||
| conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | ||
| a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. | ||
| phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other | ||
| when a nonhuman thing is givin a human characteristic | ||
| a stanza of four lines | ||
| a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song | ||
| the beat of poetry | ||
| be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable | ||
| form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | ||
| a rhythmic group of six lines of verse | ||
| comparison using like or as | ||
| 14 lines of iambic pentameter with a particular rhyming scheme and a volta ("change") around line 9 | ||
| a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem | ||
| using a part of something to represent the whole thing | ||
| the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | ||
| The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters (e.g., serious or humorous). | ||
| a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said | ||
| the shift or point of dramatic change in a poem (around line 9 in a sonnet) |