AP Literature Vocab III (Poetry) Flashcards

6678343226	analogy	clarifies or explains an unfamiliar concept or object by comparing it with one that is similar	0
6678343227	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds in words close together	1
6678343228	conceit	a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects	2
6678343229	elegy	a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead	3
6678343230	enjambment	the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next, with no punctuation at the end line	4
6678343231	epic	a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	5
6678343232	consonance	the repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of a words which are close together, e.g., east, west, best, test, trust, burst	6
6678343234	internal rhyme	a rhyme between words in the same line	7
6678343235	lyric poem	highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker	8
6678343236	slant rhyme	rhymes that are close but not exact: lap/shape, glorious/nefarious.	9
6678343237	ode	a poem usually addressed to a particular person, object or event that has stimulated deep and noble feelings in the poet	10
6678343238	pastoral	a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)	11
6678343239	quatrain	a stanza of four lines	12
6678343240	sonnet	Fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes.	13
6678343241	stanza	a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem	14
6678343242	symbol	something that stands for something else	15
6678343243	theme	a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work	16
6678343244	epiphany	a moment of sudden revelation or insight	17
6678343246	apostrophe	a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction	18
6678343247	shift	movement from one idea or a particular tone to another	19
6678343250	refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.	20
6678360442	octave	The first 8 lines of a sonnet	21
6678362591	sestet	The last 6 lines of a sonnet	22
6678364857	volta	The shift in a poem, typically a sonnet at line 9 or 13 for an English sonnet, line 9 for an Italian	23
6678372676	English (Shakespearean) sonnet	abab,cdcd,efef,gg	24
6678375146	heroic or rhyming couplet	two lines of rhyme, in iambic pentameter	25
6678384658	capping couplet	two ending lines of rhymed poetry, typically at the end of a sonnet	26