Ocar AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

5303345534	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
5303345535	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
5303345536	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
5303345537	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
5303345539	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	4
5303345540	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	5
5303345542	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	6
5303345543	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	7
5303345544	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	8
5303345545	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	9
5303345546	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	10
5303345555	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	11
5303345556	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	12
5303345557	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	13
5303345558	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	14
5303345563	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	15
5303345565	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	16
5303345566	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	17
5303345567	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	18
5303345569	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	19
5303345570	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	20
5303345572	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	21
5303345573	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	22
5303345574	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	23
5303345575	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	24
5303345576	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	25
5303345577	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	26
5303345579	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	27
5303345581	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	28
5303345582	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	29
5303345583	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	30
5303345584	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	31
5303345586	italian sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	32
5303345587	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	33
5303345589	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	34
5303345590	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	35
5303345591	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	36
5303345594	octave	8 line stanza	37
5303345595	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	38
5303345596	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	39
5303345597	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	40
5303345598	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	41
5303345600	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	42
5303345608	quatrain	A four line stanza	43
5303345609	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	44
5303345610	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	45
5303345614	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	46
5303345615	sestet	6 line stanza	47
5303345617	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	48
5303345619	sonnet	14 line poem	49
5303345620	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	50
5303345622	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	51
5303345623	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	52
5303345624	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	53
5303345625	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	54
5303345626	tercet	3 line stanza	55
5303345627	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	56
5303345628	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	57
5303345632	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	58
5303345633	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	59
5303345634	vilanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	60