AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

6369037128	lyric	a short poem that expresses the personal feelings and thoughts of a single person	0
6369038651	sonnet	a poem of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter that follows one of several rhyme schemes	1
6369040926	ode	a poem that is long and serious in nature written to a set structure	2
6369042407	elegy	a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem	3
6369044274	meter	the measured arrangement of words in poetry by syllables; the number of feet in a line	4
6369047055	rhythm	the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line	5
6369048822	scansion	the analysis of a poem's meter	6
6369050430	prosody	the study of rhyme and meter	7
6369052366	free verse	poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that do not have a fixed metrical pattern	8
6369054952	blank verse	poetry written in iambic pentameter; the iambic pentameter often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech	9
6369058712	couplet	a pair of lines in poetry that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought	10
6369061208	heroic couplet	two consecutive lines of rhymed verse written in iambic pentameter with eloquent diction	11
6369064681	quatrain	a stanza or poem of 4 lines - lines 2 and 4 must rhyme, lines 1 and 3 may or may not rhyme, rhyming lines should have a similar number of syllables	12
6369069414	persona	the narrator or speaker of the poem	13
6369070870	caesura	a grammatical pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of a line	14
6369072946	enjambment	carrying the sense of one line of verse over to the next line without a pause	15
6369075541	assonance	vowel rhyme; rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of rhyming words	16
6369079283	conceit	when an image or metaphor likens one thing to something else that is seemingly very different	17
6369081632	apostrophe	a figure of speech where someone, usually absent or dead, an object, or a nonexistent person is directly addressed as through present or real	18
6369086587	anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	19
6369089325	alliteration	the repetition of a consonant sound to create rhythm and memory	20
6369091724	allusion	a brief reference to a historical or literary person, place, object, or event	21
6369095017	tone	the attitude of the author towards his/her subject or audience	22
6369097932	metonymy	the substitution of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself	23
6369101268	synecdoche	when a part represents the whole	24