Poetic Devices and Terms AP Literature Flashcards
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| 5809233603 | Scansion | is the system for describing conventional rhythms by dividing lines into feet. | 0 | |
| 5809238238 | Metrical Rhythm | a pattern stronger and weaker stresses or accents in the syllables of line. | 1 | |
| 5809240009 | Polysyllabic words | more than one syllable | 2 | |
| 5809242612 | Monosyllabic words | one syllable | 3 | |
| 5809245087 | Meter | rhythmic patterns that prevail in English poetry | 4 | |
| 5809262738 | Duple feet- | one accented syllable and one unaccented syllable. (X= unaccented and /= accented) | 5 | |
| 5809266179 | Triple feet | one accented and two unaccented syllables | 6 | |
| 5809269692 | Iamb | duple rising (x/ x/ x/ x/ x/) | 7 | |
| 5809273766 | Trochee | duple falling (/x /x /x /x ) | 8 | |
| 5809275282 | Anapest | triple rising (xx/ xx/ xx/ ) | 9 | |
| 5809279502 | Dactyl | triple falling (/xx /xx) | 10 | |
| 5809281603 | Monometer | one foot | 11 | |
| 5809286290 | Hexameter | six feet | 12 | |
| 5809288392 | Heptameter | seven feet often heard as four plus three | 13 | |
| 5809879347 | Octameter | eight feet | 14 | |
| 5809882944 | Caesura | a pause or break in the line, variously placed that modifies the regularity of the meter. | 15 | |
| 5809886016 | Enjambment | continuation of the sense and grammatical construction into the next line. | 16 | |
| 5809888682 | Stanza | regular recurring groupings of two or more lines. | 17 | |
| 5809892858 | Ballad | narrative poem often using common meter and sometimes including a refrain. (one or more words repeated at intervals in a poem) | 18 | |
| 5809897385 | Sestina | a fixed poetic form of six, six-lined stanzas and a three-line envoy. | 19 | |
| 5809900526 | Villanelle | fixed form borrowed from early French poetry with nineteen lines (five stanzas of three lines, a last stanza of four lines) of any length or meter and two rhymes only, aba, employed in a set pattern. | 20 | |
| 5809901648 | Form | the organization of the parts of the poem in relation to its total effect | 21 | |
| 5809906195 | Structure- | the framework of the piece of poetry; sequence of images and ideas that carry meaning is conveyed via grammar, syntax, and rhetorical devices. | 22 | |
| 5809909305 | Syntax- | component of grammar; ordering, grouping, and placement of words in a sentence/line. | 23 | |
| 5809913692 | Iambic pentameter | five feet | 24 | |
| 5809916312 | Trochaic tetrameter | four feet | 25 | |
| 5809917731 | Anapestic trimeter | three feet | 26 | |
| 5809920242 | Dactylic dimeter | two feet | 27 | |
| 5809928987 | rising foot | accented syllable at the end | 28 | |
| 5809932368 | falling foot | accented syllable at the beginning | 29 |