AP Literature: Poetry Terms Flashcards

6190770470	alliteration	repetition of similar consonant sounds	0
6190770471	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
6190770473	apostrophe	an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage	2
6190770475	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	3
6190770476	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	4
6190770480	couplet	2 consecutive rhyming lines	5
6190770481	diction	author/poet's word choice	6
6190770482	didactic poem	a poem which is intended to teach a lesson	7
6190770483	dramatic poem	a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama)	8
6190770484	elegy	a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead	9
6190770485	end stopped	a line with a pause at the end	10
6190770486	enjambment	the continuation from one line to the next with no pause	11
6190770487	epic poem	a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero	12
6190770488	extended metaphor	an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem	13
6190770489	eye rhyme/slant rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation	14
6190770490	free verse	poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme	15
6190770493	imagery	anything that appeals to at least one of the five senses,	16
6190770494	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	17
6190770495	lyric poem	a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality	18
6190770496	metaphor	a direct comparison	19
6190770497	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	20
6190770498	narrative poem	a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples)	21
6190770499	octave	an eight line stanza	22
6190770500	ode	a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style	23
6190770501	onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning	24
6190770502	oxymoron	a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression	25
6190770503	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	26
6190770505	personification	giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics	27
6190770506	quatrain	four line stanza	28
6190770508	rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry	29
6190770509	rhythm	the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable	30
6190770510	rhyme scheme	the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.	31
6190770512	simile	a comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using like, as or than	32
6190770513	sonnet	a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme	33
6190770514	speaker	the voice of the poem, not necessarily the poet	34
6190770515	stanza	a group of lines in a poem	35
6190770516	structure	the arrangement of materials within a work	36
6190770517	symbol	something that represents something else	37
6190770518	synecdoche	a form of metaphor in which mentioning a part signifies the whole	38
6190770519	syntax	the ordering of words into patterns or sentences, sentence structure	39
6190770520	tercet	a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme	40
6190770521	terza rima	a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc	41
6190770522	theme	main thought expressed by a work	42
6190770523	tone	the author's attitude toward the subject	43
6190770526	meter	stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem	44
6190812617	Verse	A Verse is a collection of metrical lines of poetry. It is used to define the difference of poetry and prose. It contains rhythm and pattern and more often than not, rhyme.	45
6190820511	Line		46
6190834424	Occasion	"occasional poetry" describes the work's purpose and the poet's relation to subject matter.	47
6190849744	Enjambent	The continuation of a complete idea (a sentence or clause) from one line or couplet of a poem to the next line or couplet without a pause. An example of enjambment can be found in the first line of Joyce Kilmer's poem Trees: "I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as a tree." Enjambment comes from the French word for "to straddle."	48
6190855503	soliloquy	an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.	49
6190859769	Anthropomorphism	Anthropomorphism	50
6190862669	Blank Verse	Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse.	51
6190865646	Inversion	Inversion, also known as anastrophe, is a literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter.	52
6190870611	Elizabethan Pronouns and Possessives	thou the thine	53
6190877992	Personification	Personification is when you assign the qualities of a person to something that isn't human or, in some cases, to something that isn't even alive.	54