AP Literature - Poetry Flashcards
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| 6308886922 | Tone | Attitude of speaker of poem | 0 | |
| 6308889520 | Repetition | Ex. of words, phrases, sounds, images, & ideas Emphasizes meaning of repeated phrase | 1 | |
| 6308894853 | Diction | Types of words poet uses, connotation words have, abstract vs. specific word choice, etc. | 2 | |
| 6308900684 | Syntax/Structure | Structure, or lack of structure, can highlight patterns & shifts | 3 | |
| 6308906399 | Imagery | Sensory details, images | 4 | |
| 6308909459 | Irony | An event or word that is unexpected, connected to sarcasm & satire | 5 | |
| 6308915685 | Pastoral/Idyllic Tone | Quaint, idealized, particularly describing nature/country life | 6 | |
| 6308924659 | Urban Tone | Portraying more aspects of city life through topics and/or settings | 7 | |
| 6308930397 | Rural Tone | Portraying more aspects of country life through topics and/or settings | 8 | |
| 6308932862 | Narrative Tone | Speaking from the perspective of an outside narrator, can be used to show a variety of interpretations of one situation | 9 | |
| 6308947898 | Satiric Tone (Parody) | Making fun of or pointing out the flaws in something | 10 | |
| 6308951876 | Gothic Tone | Gloomy, horror-like tone | 11 | |
| 6308962723 | Elegiac Tone | Referring to a Eulogy | 12 | |
| 6308965035 | Lyrical Tone | Expresses poet's emotions in an imaginative way, also refers to rhythm/structure; reads like a song (song lyrics) | 13 | |
| 6308980465 | Elegy/Eulogy | Addressing someone who has just died; Eulogy has more of a connotation that the person was great in life | 14 | |
| 6308986087 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | 15 | |
| 6308990090 | Ode | A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter | 16 | |
| 6308996314 | Sonnet | A poem with 14 lines, written in iambic pentameter | 17 | |
| 6308999400 | Petrarchan Sonnet | Has rhyme scheme ABBAABBACDCDCD Usually contains a tone shift where the rhyme scheme breaks | 18 | |
| 6309008315 | Shakespearean Sonnet | Has rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG Ends with rhyming couplet | 19 | |
| 6309014612 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 20 | |
| 6309019106 | Sestina | A poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi | 21 | |
| 6309024380 | Villanelle | 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 | 22 | |
| 6309028918 | Parallelism | Similar structure of series of things (words, phrases, clauses) | 23 | |
| 6309032808 | Anaphora | Repeating word/group of words at BEGINNING of each new sentence/clause (ex. The Lord did stuff. The Lord did more stuff.) | 24 | |
| 6309036603 | Epistrophe | Repeating word/group of words at END of each sentence/clause (ex. I'll have my bond! Speak not against my bond!) | 25 | |
| 6309039801 | Metaphor | Comparing things without using like or as | 26 | |
| 6309042773 | Simile | Comparing things using like or as | 27 | |
| 6309045459 | Analogy | A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification | 28 | |
| 6309050991 | Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one (symbolic) | 29 | |
| 6309055323 | Alliteration | Repeating first sounds of words | 30 | |
| 6309059369 | Consonance | Repeating consonant sounds (not necessarily first sounds) | 31 | |
| 6309077334 | Assonance | Repeating vowel sounds (like alliteration for vowels in middle of words) | 32 | |
| 6309079383 | Onomatopoeia | Words representing sounds | 33 | |
| 6309083455 | Euphemism | A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing | 34 | |
| 6309087401 | Epithet | An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned | 35 | |
| 6309092516 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 36 | |
| 6309092517 | Litotes | Understatement | 37 | |
| 6309094340 | Personification | Giving inanimate or non-human thing human characteristics (aka prosopopoeia) | 38 | |
| 6309100434 | Paradox | Seemingly contradictory statement that actually has a measure of truth (ex. art is a form of lying to tell the truth) | 39 | |
| 6309103186 | Ellipsis | Taking out words that are implied (ex. and he to England shall along with you) | 40 | |
| 6309105636 | Antithesis | Juxtaposing contrasting things (ex. though studious, he was popular) | 41 | |
| 6309107953 | Chiasmus | 2 clauses next to each other with reverse grammatical order, no repetition/same words (ex. by day the frolic, and the dance by night) | 42 | |
| 6309110189 | Oxymoron | Putting 2 contradicting things together (ex. cruel kindness) | 43 | |
| 6309113015 | Synechdoche | A part stands for a whole (ex. bread for food) | 44 | |
| 6309115618 | Metonymy | Attributive/suggestive word standing for something else (ex. crown for royalty) | 45 | |
| 6309118004 | Apostrophe | Addressing someone not there or some personified abstraction, like Death | 46 | |
| 6309121406 | Monologue | A long speech by one actor/narrator (in poetry) | 47 | |
| 6309125709 | Soliloquy | An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers | 48 | |
| 6309130335 | Malaproprism | Using the wrong words purposefully, usually for humor | 49 | |
| 6309139058 | Non sequitur | A conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement | 50 | |
| 6309142560 | Monometer | One foot per line (2 beats) | 51 | |
| 6309145340 | Dimeter | Two feet per line (4 beats) | 52 | |
| 6309147928 | Trimeter | Three feet per line (6 beats) | 53 | |
| 6309147929 | Tetrameter | Four feet per line (8 beats) | 54 | |
| 6309150780 | Pentameter | Five feet per line (10 beats) | 55 | |
| 6309153080 | Hexameter | Six feet per line (12 beats) | 56 | |
| 6309154995 | Iambic | unstressed/stressed | 57 | |
| 6309157871 | Trochaic | stressed/unstressed | 58 | |
| 6309160197 | Anapestic | 2 unstressed/1 stressed (ex. The Night Before Christmas) | 59 | |
| 6309163207 | Dactylic | 1 stressed/2 unstressed | 60 | |
| 6309165859 | Couplet | Stanza of 2 lines | 61 | |
| 6309165860 | Tercet | Stanza of 3 lines | 62 | |
| 6309168091 | Quatrain | Stanza of 4 lines | 63 | |
| 6309168092 | Quintet | Stanza of 5 lines | 64 | |
| 6309170803 | Sestet | Stanza of 6 lines | 65 | |
| 6309173179 | Septet | Stanza of 7 lines | 66 | |
| 6309173180 | Octave | Stanza of 8 lines | 67 | |
| 6309175194 | Free Verse | No true format whatsoever | 68 | |
| 6309177412 | Blank Verse | Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter | 69 | |
| 6309182659 | Internal Rhyme | Rhymes within lines/stanzas, not necessarily at the end of each line | 70 | |
| 6309184671 | Broken Rhyme | Rhymes that break a previously established pattern | 71 | |
| 6309191432 | Irregular Rhyme | Rhyme scheme that is irregular (duh) | 72 | |
| 6309194751 | Caesura | A pause near the middle of a line | 73 | |
| 6309200817 | Volta | Shift in tone (usually in the last half of a sonnet) | 74 |