Poetry Vocabulary - AP Literature Flashcards

5880771004	Allegory (EXTRA TERM)	A prose or poetic narrative in which the characters behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. It's a story with multiple levels of meaning. Ex: Animal story, there is more going on	0
5880872125	Anachronism (EXTRA TERM)	The misplacement of a a person occurance, custom, or idea in time	1
5880740831	Attitude (EXTRA TERM)	Sense expressed by the tone of voice and/or mood of a piece of writing	2
5880746087	Catharsis (EXTRA TERM)	A cleansing or purification of one's emotions through art Ex: Taylor swift ._.	3
5880755070	Conceit (EXTRA TERM)	A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within Ex: I hate that I went there, but I'm glad	4
5880760865	Consonance (EXTRA TERM)	The repetition of a sequence of two or more constants	5
5955012082	Sestet	Six lines in a stanza	6
5955304746	Quatrain	Stanza consisting of four lines	7
5955305876	Stanza	A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse	8
5955309821	Dramatic Monologue	A monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience	9
5955314487	Archetype	A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology	10
5955319839	Parallel Structure	Words or phrases to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance	11
5880717299	Asyndeton	a style in which conjunctions are ommitted, usually producing a fast-paced , more rapid prose Ex: He came; he saw; he conquered	12
5955338104	Symbolism	A person, place, thing, event, or pattern in a literary work that designates itself & at the same time figuratively represents or "stands for."	13
5955358695	Villanelle	Nineteen lines divided into six stanzas, five tercets, and one quatrain. The first / third lines rhyme for tercets, whilst the last two lines of the quatrain have to rhyme.	14
5955366822	Shakespearean Sonnet	Known as the "English" sonnet. A form that divides the poem into 3 units of four lines each & a final unit of two lines, usually " A B A B / E D E D / E F E F / G G "	15
5955385517	Style	A distinctive style of expression; each other's style is expressed through his/her diction, rhythm, imagery, & so on. A writer's typical way of writing.	16
5880759541	Connotation	What is suggested by a word, apart from what it explicitly means	17
5955613973	Tone	The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader - "mood"	18
5955615738	Syntax	The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, & sentences. It is sentence structure & how it influences the way the read er receives a particular piece of writing.	19
5955620253	Antithesis	The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas.	20
5880741006	Ballad	Narrative poem. Originally meant to be song. Repetition & refrain characterize the ballad	21
5955639512	Consonence	The recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity	22
5955642483	Synedoche	When a part is used to signify a whole Ex) I left my heart in San Fransisco	23
5955660899	Parody	Imitation of the style of another work, writer or genre	24
5955661512	Onomonopeia	Words that associate with the sound being made.	25
5955662405	Mood	A feeling or ambiance, resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator's attitude & point of view	26
5955665175	Metaphore	Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable	27
5955666791	In Media Res	Latin for "into the middle of things." It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle	28
5955667221	Hyperbole	Exaggeration of statements not meant to be taken seriously	29
5955668477	Farce	A play or scene in a play or book that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics, & often slapstick & physical humor Ex - Jim Carey	30
5880766344	Couplet	Two rhyming lines of Iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection	31
5880749637	Chiasmus	Figure of speech which order of the terms in the first clauses is reversed in the second Ex: Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure	32
5955675874	Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing	33
5880868332	Alliteration	Sequential repetition of a similar initial sound. Does not have to be directly next to each other. (Same line)	34
5955677349	Motif	A recurrent idea, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event	35
5955680353	Anaphora	The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	36
5955680981	Dialect	Use of language that distinguishes the voice of someone from a unique culture, financial status or social class from others	37
5955682692	Pastoral	Literary work dealing with shepherds, farm life, and rustic life	38
5955684156	Metonymy	A type of metaphor in which an object is used to describe something that's closely related to it. Ex) when you're talking about the power of a king, you might say "the crown," instead	39
5955686402	Paradox	Is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to a self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion	40
5955686856	Terza Rima	An arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc., as in Dante's Divine Comedy.	41
5955687816	Satire	The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues	42
5955688571	Refrain	Refrain is a verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem	43
5955689698	Ode	Lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment	44
5955690138	Soliloquy	An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play	45
5955690468	Free Verse	A literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms	46
5955695567	Personification	The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form	47
5955695966	Diction	Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry	48
5955697179	Colloquial	In literature, colloquialism is the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing	49
5955697782	Octave	A stanza pertaining of eight (8) lines	50
5955698637	Enjambment	The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza	51
5955698907	Persona	A persona, from the Latin for mask, is a character taken on by a poet to speak in a first-person poem	52
5955699230	Juxtaposition	To place two (objects) side by side and compare - a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts	53
5955701182	Theme	The subject or idea of the poem - Generalized, abstract, paraphrase of idea	54
5955702078	Lyric	Originally designed poems meant to be sung, expresses intense personal emotion rather than describing a narrative or dramatic situation // often short	55
5955705284	Elegy	A sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead	56
5955705752	Cinquain	A (5) five-line stanza	57
5955707759	Similie	Really...? A comparison using "like" or "as."	58
5955708171	Denotation	The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests	59
5955708627	Irony	Is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words	60
5955709221	Oxymoron	Is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect	61
5955710088	Assonance	repetition of the sound of a vowels in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible ( ie. - penitence, reticence)	62
5955711819	Tragedy	A poem usually having a person of high (noble) status meeting a downfall, usually learning a lesson	63
5955715729	Imagery	Using figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses	64
5955716985	Petrarchan Sonnet	One stanza of 8 lines, second stanza of 6 lines Usually - A B B A A B B A / C D C D C D	65
5955719292	Stock Character	A character used in many works of art over again	66
5880871239	Allusion	reference to literary or historical event, person, place	67
5880744475	Caesura	A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns	68
5955721228	Litote	Derived from a Greek word meaning "simple", is a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions i.e "William Shakespeare was not a bad playwright at all"	69
5958880875	Epic	Poetry usually about a hero	70
5958885278	Formal Diction	Use of language that creates and elevated tone	71