AP Literature: Poetry Terms Flashcards

3793045776	alliteration	repetition of similar consonant sounds	0
3793050210	allusion	a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event person or work	1
3793056794	antithesis	a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas	2
3793064501	apostrophe	an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage	3
3793071863	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds	4
3793076505	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	5
3793076506	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	6
3793079573	cacophony	a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones	7
3793081410	caesura	a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause	8
3793081411	conceit	an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy or extended metaphor and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things.	9
3793084160	couplet	2 consecutive rhyming lines	10
3793084161	diction	author/poet's word choice	11
3793084162	didactic poem	a poem which is intended to teach a lesson	12
3793086809	dramatic poem	a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama)	13
3793090177	elegy	a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead	14
3793090178	end stopped	a line with a pause at the end	15
3793090179	enjambment	the continuation from one line to the next with no pause	16
3793092992	epic poem	a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero	17
3793092993	extended metaphor	an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem	18
3793096375	eye rhyme/slant rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation	19
3793096376	free verse	poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme	20
3793099496	heroic couplet	two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter (ten syllables, unstressed/stressed)	21
3793099497	hyperbole	exaggeration	22
3793099498	imagery	anything that appeals to at least one of the five senses,	23
3793101637	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	24
3793101638	lyric poem	a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality	25
3793101639	metaphor	a direct comparison	26
3793103225	metonymy	a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself	27
3793106731	narrative poem	a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples)	28
3793106732	octave	an eight line stanza	29
3793106733	ode	a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style	30
3793109959	onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning	31
3793109960	oxymoron	a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression	32
3793109961	paradox	a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense	33
3793113441	parallelism	similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry	34
3793113442	personification	giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics	35
3793114801	quatrain	four line stanza	36
3793117396	refrain	a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza	37
3793117397	rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry	38
3793118834	rhythm	the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable	39
3819897597	rhyme scheme	the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.	40
3793120688	sestet	a six line stanza	41
3793120689	simile	a comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using like, as or than	42
3793120690	sonnet	a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme	43
3793123201	speaker	the voice of the poem, not necessarily the poet	44
3793123202	stanza	a group of lines in a poem	45
3793123203	structure	the arrangement of materials within a work	46
3793123204	symbol	something that represents something else	47
3793125747	synecdoche	a form of metaphor in which mentioning a part signifies the whole	48
3793125748	syntax	the ordering of words into patterns or sentences, sentence structure	49
3793128449	tercet	a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme	50
3793128450	terza rima	a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc	51
3793128451	theme	main thought expressed by a work	52
3793128452	tone	the author's attitude toward the subject	53
3793131306	understatement	a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is	54
3793131307	villanelle	a 19 line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. Line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18 and line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, 19.	55
5718712051	meter	stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem	56