AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

6310130061	Verse	Any composition in lines of more or less regular rhythm, usually ending in rimes or Any single line in poetry	0
6310137893	Paraphrase	to put into our own words what we understand of the poem to say restating ideas that seem essential, coming out and stating what the poem may only suggest	1
6310146309	Summary	a brief condensation of the gist, or main idea, or story	2
6310149754	Theme	the central thought of the peom	3
6310154331	Carpe diem	a popular them meaning "seize the day" in Latin which means seizing the joys of the present moment	4
6310158619	Subject	the main topic or what the poem is about	5
6310161878	lyric poem (old definition)	in greek: a poem sung to the music of a lyre	6
6310165339	lyric poem (new definition)	a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speker	7
6310171428	narrative poem	a poem which main purpose is to tell a story	8
6310173527	dramatic poetry	Any verse written for the stage	9
6310182692	dramatic monologue	a lyric poem written as a speech made by a character at some decisive moment	10
6310190371	dialogue	when the other character addresses another speaker	11
6310194770	didactic poetry	poetry intended to teach the reader a moral lesson or impart a body of knowledge poetry that aims for education over art	12
6310204129	nonsense poems	translations of primitive folk songs	13
6310209314	tone	attitude conveyed toward the subject or person addressed	14
6310213450	satiric poetry	a kind of poetry that uses derisive humor to ridicule human weakness and folly or attack political injustices and incompotnece	15
6310221698	person	a fictitious character by an author to be the speaker of a poem, story, or novel	16
6310231939	ironic point of view	contrast between the writer's attitude and what is spoken by a fictitious character	17
6310251869	verbal irony	whenever words say one thing but mean something else, usually tthe opposite	18
6310267382	sarcasm	a bitter form of irony in which the ironic statement is designed to hurt or mock its target	19
6310274181	dramatic irony	when the audience or reader understands the implication and meaning of situation onstage and foresees the on-cominig disaster but the character does not	20
6310282565	tragic irony	a situation that precedes the downfall of a hero's tragedy	21
6310285220	cosmic irony	some Fate with a grim sense of humor seems to cruelly trick a human being contrast between the character's aspirations and teh treatment from the hands of fate	22
6310296112	diction	choice of words	23
6310298118	concrete	specific diction that refer to what we immediately perceive or particular individuals who belong to those general classes	24
6310311877	abstract	contains words that express more general ideas or concepts	25
6310314359	allusion	an indirect reference to any person, place, or thing usually fictitious, historical, or actual	26
6310319460	poetic diction	any language deemed suitable for verse, but generally refers to elevated language intended for poetry rather than common use	27
6310334336	decorum	propriety or etiquett	28
6310339314	vulgate	speech not affected by schooling	29
6310339315	levels of diction	a ranking of words, phrases, and sentences in levels of formality	30
6310348007	Colloquial	casual conversation or informal writing of literate people	31
6310358009	general english	the ordinary speech of educated native speakers	32
6310361925	formal english	heightened, impersonal language of educated people, usually written, although possibly spoken on dignified occasions	33
6310372330	dialect	a particular variety of language spoken by an identifiable region, group, or social class of people	34
6310377020	denotation	dictionary definition	35
6310380093	connotations	associations of a word	36
6310383083	image	a word or sequence of words that refer to any sensory experience	37
6310383084	visual imagery	imagery that refers to sense of sight	38
6310388323	auditory imagery	imagery that refers to the sense of sound	39
6310390434	tactile imagery	imagery that refers to the sense of touch	40
6310395601	imagery	the collective set of images in a poem or other literary work	41
6310397386	haiku (japanese)	beginning verse	42
6310403740	haiku	a japanese verse form that has 3 un-rhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables traditional version is supposed to be serious and spiritual in tone, relying on imagery	43
6310424949	figures of speech	an expression or comparison that relies not on its literal meaning, but on its connotations and suggestions	44
6310424950	simile	a comparison of 2 things indicated by some connective, usually: like, as, then, or a verb ex). my love is like a red, red rose	45
6310431336	metaphor	a statement that one thing is something else, which, in a literal sense, it is not ex). my love is a red, red rose	46
6310442090	implied metaphor	metaphor that uses neither a connective nor the verb "to be" ex). my love has red petals and sharp thorns	47
6310447852	mixed metaphor	a combination of two or more incompatible metphors	48
6310450508	personification	a figure of speech in which a thing, an animal, or an abstract is made human	49
6310456464	apostrophe	a direct address to someone or something in poetry often addresses something not ordinarily spoken to	50
6310466911	overstatement/ hyberbole	a point with a statement containing exaggeration	51
6310468964	understatement	a ironic figure of speech that deliberately describes something in a way that is less than the true case	52
6310478848	metonymy	the name of a thing substituted for that of another closely associated with it	53
6310491407	synecdoche	the use of a significant part of a thing to stand for the whole of it or vice versa ex). wheels for car	54
6310504425	transferred ephithet	a device where some characteristics of a thing to another thing closely associated with it; usually places a noun nest to a noun in which the connection is not strictly logical	55
6310519679	paradox	a statement that at first strikes one as self-contradictory, but that on reflection reveals some deeper sense	56
6310531570	pun	a play on words	57
6310536818	euphony	the sound of words working together with meaning, pleases the ear and mind	58
6310536819	cacophony	a harsh, discordant effect often mirroring the meaning of the context in which it is used	59
6310542814	onomatopoeia	an attempt to repesent a thing or action by a word that imitates the sound associated with it	60
6310547696	alliteration	the repetition of two or more consonant sounds in successive words	61
6310553946	initial allititeration	repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of successive words	62
6310560444	internal alliteration/ hidden alliteration	repetition of the same consonant sound not at the beginning of successive words	63
6310563027	rime	two or more words that contain identical or similar vowel sound, usually accented, with following following consonant sounds	64
6310571131	exact rime	rime where sounds following the same vowel sound ex) follow and hollow ; go and slow	65
6310580838	slant rime	rime where the final consonant sounds are the same but the vowel sounds are different also known as: near rime, off rime, imperfect rime ex) bone and bean	66
6310596461	consonance	a kind of slant rime where the beginning and ending sounds are the same but the vowel sounds are different ex) chitter, chatter	67
6310607657	end rime	rime that comes at the end of lines	68
6310609758	internal rime	rime that occurs within lines	69
6310611850	masculine rime	rime of one-syllable or (in words of more than 1 syllable) stressed final syllables ex) jail, bail; di-VORCE, re-MORSE	70
6310617587	feminine rime	a rime of two or more syllables, with stress on a syllable other than the first ex) TUR-tle, FER-tile	71
6310622823	eye rime	spellings look alike but pronunciations differ ex) rough, dough	72
6310628855	rhythm	the recurrence of stresses and pauses in sound	73
6310631266	stress	an emphasis or accent placed on a syllable in speech	74
6310641025	slack	unstressed syllables	75
6310645794	iambic meter	a succession of alternate unstressed and stressed syllables most familiar meter in the English language	76
6310651017	caesura	a light but definite pause within a line indicated with double lines (\|\|)	77
6310654924	end-stopped	when a line ends in a full pause, usually indicated by some mark of punctuation	78
6310658722	run-on line	when a line that does not end in punctuation and that therefore is read with only a slight pause after it	79
6310663450	prosody	the study of metrical structures in poetry	80
6310666009	scansion	a practice used to describe patterns in a poem by separating the metrical feet, counting the syllables, marking the accents, and indicating the pauses	81
6310676011	quantitative meter	a meter constructed on the principle of vowel length	82
6310680331	accentual meter	a meter where the poet counts the accents/stresses	83
6310692830	iambic	a line made up primarily of iambs ( unstressed - stressed)	84
6310696164	anapestic	a line made up primarily of anapests (unstressed - unstressed - stressed)	85
6310700819	trochaic	a line made up primarily of trochees (stressed - unstressed)	86
6310708144	dactylic	a line made up primarily of dactyls (stressed - unstressed - unstressed)	87
6310711784	rising meter	movement rises from an unstressed syllable to a stress iambic and anapestic	88
6310716572	falling meter	movement from a stress to an unstressed syllable trochaic and dactylic	89
6310722643	monosyllabic foot (')	a foot, or unit of meter, that contains only one syllable	90
6310733558	spondee (")	a metrical foot or verse containing 2 unstressed syllables often substituted into a meter to create extra emphasis	91
6310742708	terms of the different foot lengths	monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter	92
6310758605	closed form	poetry written in some preexisting pattern of meter, rime, line, or stanza	93
6310761381	open form	Verse that has no set formal scheme - no meter, rime, or even stanzaic pattern	94
6310770045	Free verse	poetry that organizes its lines without meter	95
6310773667	Epic	a long narrative poem usually composed in an elevated style tracing the adventures of a legendary or mythic hero	96
6310777380	blank verse	un-rimed iambic pentameter	97
6310781148	couplet	a 2 lined stanza, usually rimed	98
6310784307	heroic couplet/ closed couplet	two rimed lines of iambic pentameter	99
6310787107	parrellel	a pair of words, or phrases, clauses, or sentences side by side in agreement or similarity	100
6310790315	antitheses	a pair of words or phrases in contrast or opposition	101
6310794108	tercet	a group of 3 lines	102
6310796127	Terza Rima	a verse form made up of tercets that are connected by an overlapping rime scheme	103
6310805057	quatrain	a stanza consisting of four lines	104
6310807354	syllabic verse	aa verse for where there is a pattern of a certain number of syllables to a line	105
6310815690	acrostic	a poem where the initial letters of each line, when read downward, spell out a hiden word or words	106
6310821316	fixed forms	a poem that inherits form other poems certain familiar elements of structure	107
6310823791	conventions	expected features such as themes, subjects, attitudes, or figures of speech	108
6310827010	sonnet	A traditional and widely used verse form, especially popular for love poetry	109
6310838156	English Sonnet/ Shakespearean sonnet	rimes cohere in 4 clusters with a couplet at the end	110
6310854211	Italian Sonnet/ Petrarchan sonnet	a sonnet fololwing the rime scheme in the first octave (abba abba) and the final sestet with various rime scheme patters	111
6310861136	octave	a set of 8 lines	112
6310863250	sestet	a set of 6 lines	113
6310865033	epigram	short poem ending in a witty or ingenious turn of thought, to which the rest of the compostion is connected to or lead up to	114
6310870082	limerick	5 anapestic lines usually riming aabba	115
6310871827	clerihew	a comical biographical poem of 4 lines of irregular length and meter, and a rime scheme of aabb	116
6310883234	Villanelle	a fixed form developed by french poets to imitate Italian folk song consists of 6 rimed tercets where the first and 3rd ending words alternate as the last word of of the remaining tercets and then are repeated together in the final 2 lines	117
6310898924	Sestina	"song of sixes" a poem of 6 sestets where the last 6 words are rearranged in different orders but appear in the final envoy	118
6310929846	projective verse	a way of constructing a poem where the poet listens to their own breathing and using ti as a rhythmic guide rather than poetic meter or form	119
6310938789	psalms	sacred sangs usually refering to 150 Hebrew poems collected in the Old Testement	120
6310942691	prose poems	poetic language printed in prose paragraphs, but displaying careful attention to sound, imagery, and figurative language characteristic of poetry	121
6310957447	concrete poetry	visual poetry composed exclusively for the page in which a picture or image is made of printed letters and words	122
6357644010	Portmanteau	a word composed of two or more words squished together ex) breakfast + lunch = brunch spoon + fork = spork	123