AP Literature: Poetry Terms Flashcards

6304770641	alliteration	repetition of similar consonant sounds	0
6304770642	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
6304770644	apostrophe	an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage	2
6304770645	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds	3
6304770646	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	4
6304770647	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	5
6304770648	cacophony	a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones	6
6304770650	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.	7
6304770651	couplet	2 consecutive rhyming lines	8
6304770652	diction	author/poet's word choice	9
6304770653	didactic poem	a poem which is intended to teach a lesson	10
6304770654	dramatic poem	a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama)	11
6304770655	elegy	a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead	12
6304770657	enjambment	the continuation from one line to the next with no pause	13
6304770658	epic poem	a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero	14
6304770659	extended metaphor	an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem	15
6304770660	eye rhyme/slant rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation	16
6304770661	free verse	poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme	17
6304770663	hyperbole	exaggeration	18
6304849864	iambic pentameter	five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables. Hint: Shakespeare is famous for using this. Read more at http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-iambic-pentameter.html#ILmjQe2gELeRQ5cZ.99	19
6304770664	imagery	anything that appeals to at least one of the five senses,	20
6304770665	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	21
6304770666	lyric poem	a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality	22
6304770667	metaphor	a direct comparison	23
6304770669	narrative poem	a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples)	24
6304770670	octave	an eight line stanza	25
6304770671	ode	a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style	26
6304770672	onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning	27
6304770673	oxymoron	a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression	28
6304770674	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	29
6304770676	personification	giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics	30
6304770677	quatrain	four line stanza	31
6304770678	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	32
6304770679	rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry	33
6304770680	rhythm	the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable	34
6304770681	rhyme scheme	the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.	35
6304770682	sestet	a six line stanza	36
6304770683	simile	a comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using like, as or than	37
6304770684	sonnet	a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme	38
6304770685	speaker	the voice of the poem, not necessarily the poet	39
6304770686	stanza	a group of lines in a poem	40
6304770688	symbol	something that represents something else	41
6304770690	syntax	the ordering of words into patterns or sentences, sentence structure	42
6304770691	tercet	a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme	43
6304770692	terza rima	a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc	44
6304770693	theme	main thought expressed by a work	45
6304770694	tone	the author's attitude toward the subject	46
6304770695	understatement	a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is	47
6304770696	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.	48
6304770697	meter	stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem	49
9606418513	synechdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team").	50
9606449426	antecedent	a grammatical word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him"); broadly: a word or phrase replaced by a substitute	51
9606534808	metonymy	a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as "scepter" for "sovereignty," or "the bottle" for "strong drink," or "suit" for "business person."	52