AP Literature: Poetry Vocab Flashcards
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| 3367440016 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 3367440017 | Allusion | Reference to something | 1 | |
| 3367440018 | Ambiguity | Uncertainty of meaning; double meaning | 2 | |
| 3367440019 | Anapest | Unstressed, unstressed, stressed (UUS) | 3 | |
| 3367440020 | Apostrophe | Addressing an inanimate object as if it were human | 4 | |
| 3367440021 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in words with different endings | 5 | |
| 3367440022 | Blank verse | Verse like everyday speech; unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter | 6 | |
| 3367440023 | Cacophony | The use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing, and unmelodious sounds (consonants) | 7 | |
| 3367440024 | Caesura | A short pause in a line (punctuation) | 8 | |
| 3367440025 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 9 | |
| 3367440026 | Couplet | Two lines | 10 | |
| 3367440027 | Dactyl | Stressed, unstressed, unstressed (SUU) | 11 | |
| 3367440028 | Diction | Word choice | 12 | |
| 3367440029 | Dissonance | The use of harsh-sounding, unusual, or impolite words to create a disturbing effect or to catch the reader's attention by interrupting a smooth flow of words | 13 | |
| 3367440030 | Enjabment | In poetry, the technique of running over from one line to the next without stopping | 14 | |
| 3367440031 | Euphony | Words or phrases that sound pleasing to the ear and melodious | 15 | |
| 3367440032 | Free Verse | Poetry characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non-rhyming lines | 16 | |
| 3367440033 | Hyperbole | Overstatement; exaggerated | 17 | |
| 3367440034 | Iamb | Unstressed, stressed (US) | 18 | |
| 3367440035 | Internal rhyme | A rhyme in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next | 19 | |
| 3367440036 | Litotes | Understatement | 20 | |
| 3367440037 | Metaphor | Comparison of two unlikely things | 21 | |
| 3367440038 | Octave | Eight lines | 22 | |
| 3367440039 | Onomatopoeia | Sound word | 23 | |
| 3367440040 | Paradox | Contradictory statement | 24 | |
| 3367440041 | Personification | Treating something nonhuman as if it were a person by giving it humanlike qualities | 25 | |
| 3367440042 | Sestet | Six lines | 26 | |
| 3367440043 | Similie | Comparison using "like" or "as" | 27 | |
| 3367440044 | Spondee | Stressed, stressed (SS) | 28 | |
| 3367440045 | Trochee | Stressed, unstressed (SU) | 29 |