AP Literature and Composition Meter Flashcards
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| 5647578215 | meter | the Greek term for "measure" | 0 | |
| 5647584354 | accentual meter, syllabic meter, accentual-syllabic meter | the three types of meter most commonly used by poets in the English language | 1 | |
| 5647706220 | accentual meter | stresses are counted and the syllables are variable | 2 | |
| 5647765900 | syllabic meter | syllables are counted but the stresses are varied | 3 | |
| 5647770536 | accentual-syllabic meter | both stresses and syllable | 4 | |
| 5647947412 | accentual meter | common in the ballad and the nursery rhyme Example: Ding, dong, bell, Pussy's in the well. Who put her in? Little Johnny Flynn. Who pulled her out? Little Tommy Stout. What a naughty boy was that, To try to drown poor pussy cat, Who never did him any harm, But killed all the mice in the farmer's barn. | 5 | |
| 5648140087 | syllabic meter | not easily heard, so it has to been seen on the page | 6 | |
| 5648181361 | feet | patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables | 7 | |
| 5648194816 | poetic foot | measured unit of meter | 8 | |
| 5647758337 | iambic | unstressed - stressed Example: Jenelle | 9 | |
| 5647760191 | trochaic | stressed - unstressed Example: Anya | 10 | |
| 5647766297 | pyhhric | unstressed - unstressed Example: Okay | 11 | |
| 5647762223 | spondaic | stressed - stressed Example: Ha ha! | 12 | |
| 5647767710 | anapestic | unstressed, unstressed - stressed Example: Donald Trump | 13 | |
| 5647770131 | dactylic | stressed - unstressed, unstressed Example: Hillary | 14 | |
| 5647772666 | monometer | one foot | 15 | |
| 5648058796 | dimeter | two feet | 16 | |
| 5648058797 | trimeter | three feet | 17 | |
| 5648060174 | tetrameter | four feet | 18 | |
| 5648062474 | pentameter | five feet | 19 | |
| 5648064225 | hexameter | six feet | 20 | |
| 5648066166 | heptameter | seven feet | 21 | |
| 5648066167 | octameter | eight feet | 22 | |
| 5648067923 | end-stopped line | complete thought ends at end of line - period Example: Ever to come up with Dactyl trisyllable. Iambics march from short to long; | 23 | |
| 5648070077 | enjambment | run-on lines - the thought carries from one line to the next Example: From long to long in solemn short Slow spondee stalks; strong foot! yet ill able | 24 | |
| 5648071466 | caesura | a pause in the middle of a line, marked by punctuation Example: Slow spondee stalks; strong foot! yet ill able Ever to come up with Dactyl trisyllable. | 25 |