AP Literature MT Terms Flashcards

Taken from the 500 questions 5 Steps to a 5 poetry section

675313009	Consonance	Repetition of consonants (vs assonance with vowels)	0
675313010	Masculine rhyme	Rhyming of final syllables (ie claims and flames vs feminine/double with 2 syllable rhymes	1
675313011	Apostrophe	Addressing someone/something not there	2
675313012	Ode	Formal lyric, lofty for commemoration	3
675313013	Ballad	Narrative, tells a story	4
675313014	Sonnet	14 line iambic pentameter	5
675313015	Admonition	Scolding, NOT a poem	6
675313016	Lyric	Short poem, about the emotional state of the speaker	7
675313017	Pastoral	Poem dealing with shepherds/rustic life, idealized	8
675313018	Elegy	Formal prose in response to a death, structure goes from lament to proaise to consolation/solace	9
675313019	Petrarchan sonnet	14 line poem with an octave and sestet, abba abba, Italian	10
675313020	Shakespearean sonnet	Iambic pentameter, 14 lines, 3 quatrains (4 lines each) then couplet	11
675313021	Slant rhymes	Rhymes with similar but not exact sounds, ie prosperous and dangerous	12
675313022	Panegyric	Public text in praise	13
675313023	Lampoon	Public criticism	14
675313024	Anapestic	Beat with 2 unstressed syllables and 1 stressed syllable	15
675313025	Dactylic	Beat with 1 stressed syllable and 2 unstressed syllables	16
675313507	Iambic	Beat with 1 unstressed syllable and 1 stressed syllable	17
675313508	Troachic	Beat with 1 stressed syllable and 1 unstressed syllable	18
675313509	Spondaic	Beat with 2 stressed syllables	19
675313510	Conceit	Extended, elaborate metaphor	20
675313511	Terzi rima	3 line rhyme scheme	21
675313512	Epigrams	Clever remarks	22
675313513	Axioms	Statements considered true	23
675313514	Metonymies	Substituting an attribute for the thing	24
675313515	Epistrophe	Repetition of word at the end of a clause/sentence	25
675313516	Sestina	Poem with 6 stanzas with recurring words	26
675313911	Villanelle	19 line poem, 5 tercets and a quatrain, 2 repeating rhymes and 2 refrains	27
675313912	Denouncement	Unraveling, falling action	28
675314083	Loose sentence	Cumulative sentence with main clause in the beginning	29
675314084	Caesura	Pause near middle of line	30
675314085	Em dashes	Dashes for interruption and introducing a new clause	31
675314086	Anastrophe	Inversion of usual order of words	32
675314092	Supplication	Plea or prayer	33
675314093	Appositive	A noun renaming another noun	34