AP Literature Poetry Vocabulary Flashcards

5988440253	Lyric	Once referred to poetry meant to be sung as music, but now describes any short, concentrated poem expressing personal feelings	0
5988440254	Narrative	Poetry that tells a story	1
5988440255	Epic	Lengthy narrative poems	2
5988440256	Ode	Usually a long, complex lyric expressing profound emotion. Its expression and style are usually more elaborate than other lyrics.	3
5988440257	Elegy	A long, ceremonious lyric poem of mourning.	4
5988440258	Idyll	Poetry that depicts either a peaceful, idealized country or a long poem telling a story about heroes of a bygone age.	5
5988440259	Pastoral	A poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, idealized way.	6
5988440260	Carpe Diem	Latin for "sieze the day," a philosophy that proposes making the most of each moment because life is short and unpredictable.	7
5988440261	Light Verse	Poetry which entertains with humor or wit. Some light verse--particularly satire--has an underlying serious intent.	8
5988440262	Otta Rima	A poem written in 8 line octave. Each line is 10 or 11 syllables, following a set rhyme scheme.	9
5988440263	Terza Rima	A type of poetry consisting of 10 or 11 syllables arranged in three-line tercets.	10
5988440264	Villanelle	A 19 line poem consisting of 5 tercets and a final quatrain on 2 rhymes. The 1st and 3rd lines of the first tercet repeat alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.	11
5988440265	Quatrain	A stanza or poem consisting of four lines. Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme having a similar number of syllables.	12
5988440266	Syllabic verse	Poetry in which the number of syllables per line is fixed (like a haiku)	13
5988440267	Dramatic Monologue	A literary work which consists of a revealing one-way conversation by a character or persona, usually directed to an imaginary audience. It typically involves a critical moment of a specific situation, with the speaker's words unintentionally providing a revelation of his character	14
5988440268	Sonnet	14 line poem usually in iambic pentameter and following a specific rhyme scheme	15
5988440269	English or Shakespearean sonnet	A 14 line poem consisting of 3 quatrains of ABAB CDCD EFEF followed by a couplet, GG. Usually in iambic pentameter.	16
5988440270	Italian or Petrarchan sonnet	A poem consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern ABBABBA followed by 6 lines with a rhyme pattern of CDECDE or CDCDCD.	17
5988440271	Tone	The poet's or the speaker's attitude towards his subject	18
5988440272	Wit	A form of intellectual humor, a characteristic of Metaphysical poetry.	19
5988440273	Connotation	The associations and implications of a word, rather than its literal meaning	20
5988440274	Diction	The dictionary definition of a word	21
5988440275	Allusion	A brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object.	22
5988440276	Hyperbole	Exaggeration for effect or humor	23
5988440277	metaphor	Direct or implied comparison between two dissimilar objects.	24
5988440278	direct metaphor	A direct comparison	25
5988440279	indirect metaphor	An indirect comparison such as "he wolfed down his food"	26
5988440280	extended metaphor	A metaphor, often the entire poem.	27
5988440281	conceit	An exaggerated comparison popularized in the 17th century by the metaphysical poets, of whom George Herbert and John Donne are the primary representatives.	28
5988440282	metonymy	A device in which an object or characteristic associated with the subject is used in place of the subject.	29
5988440283	Paradox	A statement which contains seemingly contradictory elements or appears contrary to common sense, yet can be seen as perhaps, or indeed, true when viewed from another angle.	30
5988440284	symbol	Something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance; especially a visible sign of something invisible.	31
5988440285	Synecdoche	A figure of speech by which a part stands for whole or the whole for a part	32
5988440286	Synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another. Ex: describing sound using color (blue note), taste in terms of touch (velvety chocolate), etc.	33
5988440287	pun	Words or expressions which contain two or more meanings simultaneously, helpful in a genre which requires language to condense meanings in a compact space.	34
5988440288	irony	contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality	35
5988440289	Objective correlative	T.S. Eliot's term for a pattern of objects, actions or events, or a situation which can effectively awaken in the reader an emotional response without being a direct statement of that subjective emotion.	36
5988440290	alliteration	repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of words close together	37
5988440291	assonance	repetition of the same vowel sound in words close together	38
5988440292	consonance	repetition of the same consonant sounds in words close together	39
5988440293	end rhyme	rhyme occurring at the ends of lines	40
5988440294	internal rhyme	rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line	41
5988440295	slant-rhyme	words which do not rhyme exactly, but end with similar sounds	42
5988440296	onomatopoeia	the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it	43
5988440297	repetition	repeating word, phrase, or other element for emphasis	44
5988440298	anaphora	repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect	45
5988440299	antithesis	the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or phrases	46
5988440300	polysyndeton	repetition of conjunctions in close succession	47
5988440301	parallelism	repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that state a similar idea	48
5988440302	end-stopped lines	a line of poetry marked by a logical or rhetorical pause at the end	49
5988440303	enjambment	the running over of a sentence from line or stanza into another so that closely related words fall in different lines	50
5988440304	refrain	a regularly recurring phrase or verse especially at the end of each stanza or division of a poem or song	51
5988440305	stanza	A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme.	52
5988440306	Blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	53
5988440307	couplet	two lines rhyming usually at the end of the stanza	54
5988440308	iambic pentameter	poetic meter consisting of five repetitions of an aim--an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable--used by poets because it most closely approximates the normal rhythms of English speech	55
5988440309	syllabic verse	poetry in which the number of syllables per line is fixed	56
5988440310	free verse	poetry free of a strict rhythmical structure or set rhyme scheme.	57
5988440311	scanning or scansion	analyzing the metrical patterns of a poem	58
5988440312	meter	a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.	59
5988440313	dimeter	2 feet per line	60
5988440314	trimeter	3 feet per line	61
5988440315	tetrameter	4 feet per line	62
5988440316	pentameter	5 feet per line	63
5988440317	hexameter	6 feet per line	64
5988440318	heptameter	7 feet per line	65
5988440319	foot	units of accented and unaccented syllables, arranged in units called feet. Meter is measured in units of feet.	66
5988440320	iamb	an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (the WRINK-led SEA be-NEATH him CRAWLS)	67
5988440321	trochee	a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (DOUB-le, DOUB-le, TOIL and TROUB-le)	68
5988440322	anapest	two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable (the As-SYR-ian came DOWN like the WOLF on the FOLD)	69
5988440323	dactyl	One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (you MUR-der-ing MIN-i-sters)	70
5988440324	spondee	Two stressed syllables. This foot is used for emphasis. (come UP here, BARD, BARD/ Come UP here, SOUL, SOUL)	71