AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

6336239328	allusion	an indirect reference the author assumes the reader will understand	0
6336239329	apostrophe	addressing a person or personified object not present	1
6336239330	oxymoron	two contradictory words in one expression	2
6336239331	imagery	the use of words to represent things, actions or ideas by sensory description	3
6336239332	litotes	affirmation is made indirectly by saying it's opposite	4
6336239333	caesura	a pause in a line of verse	5
6336239334	enjambment	running over of the sense and grammatical structure without a punctuated pause	6
6336239335	euphony	a pleasing smoothness of sound	7
6336239336	light verse	poetry attempts to be humorous	8
6336239337	alliteration	the repetition of the same sounds in neighboring words	9
6336239338	ode	elaborate lyric verse which deals seriously with a dignified theme	10
6336239339	meter	poetry's rhythm, or its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables	11
6336239340	end rhyme	rhyme which comes at the end of a line of poetry	12
6338295026	masculine rhyme	one syllable rhyme	13
6338295027	internal rhyme (slant rhyme)	rhyme which comes within the line	14
6338295028	half rhyme	imperfect approximate rhythm	15
6338295029	rhyme scheme	pattern of rhymes within a unit of verse	16
6338295030	feminine rhyme	2 syllable rhyme	17
6338295031	epic	a long narrative poem celebrating great deeds of heroes in great style	18
6338295032	scansion	analyzing the meter in lines of poetry by counting and marking syllables	19
6338295033	elegy	an elaborately formal lyric poem lamenting death	20
6338295034	symbolism	the use of one object to suggest another hidden object or idea	21
6338295035	villanelle	a lyric poem made up of 5 stanzas and 3 lines	22
6338295036	assonance	repetition of 2 or more vowel sounds within a line	23
6338295037	haiku	a Japanese poem of 17 syllables	24
6338295038	irony	the difference between reality and appearance	25
6338295039	dramatic irony	audience knows more about the character's situation than the character does	26
6338295040	verbal irony	contrast between what is said, and what is actually meant	27
6338295041	situational irony	contrast between what's intended or expected	28
6338380360	metonymy	representative term for a larger idea	29
6338380361	hyperbole	exaggeration for the sake of emphasis	30
6338380362	heroic couplet	2 end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc	31
6338380363	metaphor	a word denoting another to suggest a common quality	32
6338380364	lyric	subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme which reveals a poet's thoughts and feelings	33
6338380365	paradox	a statement that appears self-contradictory but underlines the basis of truth	34
6338380366	blank verse	unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter	35
6338380367	idyll	an extremely happy, peaceful scene	36
6338380368	ballad	a form of narrative poetry that represents a single dramatic episode	37
6338380369	limerick	humorous nonsense verse in 5 anapestic lines rhyming: aabba	38
6338380370	end-stopped	a line brought to a pause at the end of a verse line	39
6338432047	sonnet	a rigid 14 line verse form with variable structure and rhyme scheme	40
6338519903	consonance	the repetition of identical/similar consonants in neighboring words	41
6338519904	onomatopoeia	words imitate the sounds they refer to	42
6338519905	cacophony	harsh, clashing sounds produced by combinations of words	43
6338519906	free verse	unrhymed lines without regular rhythm	44
6338519907	narrative	non-dramatic objective verse with regular rhyme scheme that relates a story or narrative	45
6338519908	synecdoche	utilizes a part as representative as a whole	46
6338519909	conceit	an extended metaphor comparing 2 objects with powerful effect	47
6338558620	personification	figure of speech in which objects and animals have human qualities	48
6338519910	dramatic monologue	a fictional or historic character other than the poet, speaks to a silent audience	49
6338558621	simile	a direct comparison of 2 unlike objects using like or as	50
6338558622	8 types of stanzas:	2- couplet 3- tercet 4- quatrain 5- cinquain 6- sestet 7- septet 8- octet (octave) 9+- x-lined stanza	51