AP Literature: Poetry Terms Flashcards

6063006127	alliteration	repetition of similar consonant sounds	0
6063006128	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
6063006130	apostrophe	an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage	2
6063006131	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds	3
6063006132	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	4
6063006133	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	5
6063006134	cacophony	a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones	6
6063006135	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	7
6063006136	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.	8
6063006137	couplet	2 consecutive rhyming lines	9
6063006138	diction	author/poet's word choice	10
6063006139	didactic poem	a poem which is intended to teach a lesson	11
6063006141	elegy	a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead	12
6063006142	end stopped	a line with a pause at the end	13
6063006143	enjambment	the continuation from one line to the next with no pause	14
9031612532	euphony	refers to language that is smooth and musically pleasant to the ear	15
6063006144	epic poem	a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero	16
6063006145	extended metaphor	an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem	17
6063006146	eye rhyme/slant rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation	18
6063006147	free verse	poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme	19
6063006148	heroic couplet	two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter (ten syllables, unstressed/stressed)	20
6063006149	hyperbole	exaggeration	21
6063006150	imagery	anything that appeals to at least one of the five senses,	22
6063006151	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	23
6063006152	lyric poem	a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality	24
6063006153	metaphor	a direct comparison	25
9031622249	meter	regular patter of stressed and unstressed syllables	26
6063006154	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
6063006155	narrative poem	a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples)	28
6063006156	octave	an eight line stanza	29
6063006157	ode	a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style	30
6063006158	onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning	31
6063006159	oxymoron	a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression	32
6063006160	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
6063006161	parallelism	similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry	34
9031629020	persona	the narrator or the storyteller of a literary work created by the author	35
6063006162	personification	giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics	36
6063006163	quatrain	four line stanza	37
6063006164	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	38
6063006165	rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry	39
6063006166	rhythm	the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable	40
6063006167	rhyme scheme	the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.	41
6063006168	sestet	a six line stanza	42
6063006169	simile	a comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using like, as or than	43
6063006170	sonnet	a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme	44
6063006171	speaker	the voice of the poem, not necessarily the poet	45
6063006172	stanza	a group of lines in a poem	46
6063006173	structure	the arrangement of materials within a work	47
6063006174	symbol	something that represents something else	48
6063006175	synecdoche	a form of metaphor in which mentioning a part signifies the whole	49
6063006176	syntax	the ordering of words into patterns or sentences, sentence structure	50
6063006177	tercet	a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme	51
6063006178	terza rima	a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc	52
6063006179	theme	main thought expressed by a work	53
6063006180	tone	the author's attitude toward the subject	54
6063006181	understatement	a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is	55
6063006182	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.	56