Poetic Terms AP Literature Flashcards

6733170799	alliteration	the repetition of initial consonant sounds Example"Silence surged softly..."	0
6733170800	assonance	the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables Examples: "purple curtain," "young love"	1
6733170801	cacophony	the opposite of euphony; a harsh, unpleasant combination of sound. Cacophony may be an unconscious flaw, or it may be used consciously for effect, as Browning and Hardy often used it.	2
6733170802	consonance	the repetition in two or more words of final consonants in stressed syllables Example: "east and west"	3
6733170803	euphony	pleasing sounds. Opposite of cacophony.	4
6733170804	meter	a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry	5
6733170805	Feet	are the individual building blocks of meter.	6
6733170806	Iambic	unstressed-stressed form (like the word aBOVE)	7
6733170807	Anapestic	duh-duh-DUH as in "but of course"	8
6733170808	Dactylic	DUH-duh-duh, as in "honestly"	9
6733170809	Trochaic	DUH-duh, as in "pizza"	10
6733170810	Iambic pentameter	duh-DUH (five iambic feet in one line...Shakespearean sonnets)	11
6733170811	Approximate/slant rhyme	two words are alike in some sounds, but do not rhyme exactly (Example: now and know)	12
6733170812	End rhyme	occurring at the ends of lines (the most common type of rhyme)	13
6733170813	Internal rhyme	occurring within a line	14
6733170814	rhyme scheme	the pattern of end rhymes, labeled with capital letters for the purpose of analysis	15
6733170815	ballad	a song or poem that tells a story of tragedy, adventure, betrayal, revenge, or jealousy	16
6733170816	blank verse	verse written in unrhymed, iambic pentameter	17
6733170817	dramatic monologue	a poem in which a character speaks to one or more listeners who remain silent or whose replies are not revealed	18
6733170818	elegy	a poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual	19
6733170819	epic	a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society	20
6733170820	epitaph	an inscription on a gravestone or a commemorative poem written as if it were for that purpose	21
6733170821	free verse	unrhymed poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter. It seeks to capture the rhythms of speech	22
6733170822	heroic couplet	2 lines of poetry that rhyme and are in iambic pentameter	23
6733170823	limerick	a humorous, rhyming five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme	24
6733170824	lyric poem	verse that expresses the personal observations and feelings of a single speaker	25
6733170825	narrative poem	a poem that tells a story	26
6733170826	ode	a complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject, addresses a subject Example ode to my coffee	27
6733170827	Shakespearean/English sonnet	a sonnet which consists of three quatrains and a couplet. The most common rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.	28
6733170828	Petrarchan/Italian sonnet	a sonnet which consists of an octave and a sestet with the rhyme scheme being abbaabba cdecde. There is usually a pronounced tonal shift between the octave and sestet as well.	29
6733170829	sestina	a poem that consists of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. It makes no use of refrain. The form is usually unrhymed; rather it has a fixed pattern of end-words which demands that these end-words in each stanza be the same, though arranged in a different sequence each time.	30
6733170830	villanelle	a poem that has 19 lines, 5 stanzas of three lines and 1 stanza of four lines with two rhymes and two refrains. The 1st, then the 3rd lines alternate as the last lines of stanzas 2,3,and 4, and then stanza 5 (the end) as a couplet. It is usually written in tetrameter (4 feet) or pentameter.	31
6733170831	caesura	A pause or break in a line of verse.	32
6733170832	couplet	two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. Heroic couplet is also in iambic pentameter.	33
6733170833	enjambment	the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a verse or couplet on to the next verse or couplet. In other words, the line is not end-stopped, but wraps around to the next line.	34
6733170834	stanza	a group of lines in a poem, considered as a unit, like a paragraph in prose Examples of types of stanzas Couplet, two lines that rhyme Tercet- 3 lines quatrain 4 lines, Cinquain- 5 lines, sestet 6 lines Septets- 7 lines, octaves 8 lines	35
6733170835	allusion	reference to a well-known person, text, historical event, etc. Example Shakespearean and Biblical allusions	36
6733170836	apostrophe	when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed.	37
6733170837	conceit	unconventional/unexpected metaphors	38
6733170838	metaphor	comparison between two unalike things	39
6733170839	extended metaphor	a metaphor carried throughout the text or poem	40
6733170840	personfication	giving human qualities to an inanimate object or force	41
6733170841	connotation	all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	42
6733170842	denotation	dictionary definition of a word	43
6733170843	diction	word choice. To discuss a writer's diction is to consider the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, the vividness of the language, and the accompanying connotations of a specific word choice	44
6733170844	metonymy	a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. Example: The soldier led with his gun.	45
6733170845	synechdoche	a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.	46
6733170846	synesthesia	a figure of speech in which one sense is described using terms from another. ("The silence was as thick as a forest." or "I smell trouble." or "You could cut the tension in the air with a knife."	47