AP Literature: Poetry Terms Flashcards

7465200885	alliteration	repetition of similar consonant sounds	0
7465200886	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
7465200887	apostrophe	an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage	2
7465200888	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds	3
7465200889	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	4
7465200890	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	5
7465200891	cacophony	a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones	6
7465200892	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
7465200893	couplet	2 consecutive rhyming lines	8
7465200894	diction	author/poet's word choice	9
7465200895	didactic poem	a poem which is intended to teach a lesson	10
7465200896	dramatic poem	a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama)	11
7465200897	elegy	a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead	12
7465200898	enjambment	the continuation from one line to the next with no pause	13
7465200899	epic poem	a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero	14
7465200900	extended metaphor	an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem	15
7465200901	eye rhyme/slant rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation	16
7465200902	free verse	poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme	17
7465200903	hyperbole	exaggeration	18
7465200904	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
7465200905	imagery	anything that appeals to at least one of the five senses,	20
7465200906	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	21
7465200907	lyric poem	a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality	22
7465200908	metaphor	a direct comparison	23
7465200909	narrative poem	a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples)	24
7465200910	octave	an eight line stanza	25
7465200911	ode	a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style	26
7465200912	onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning	27
7465200913	oxymoron	a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression	28
7465200914	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
7465200915	personification	giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics	30
7465200916	quatrain	four line stanza	31
7465200917	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
7465200918	rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry	33
7465200919	rhythm	the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable	34
7465200920	rhyme scheme	the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.	35
7465200921	sestet	a six line stanza	36
7465200922	simile	a comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using like, as or than	37
7465200923	sonnet	a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme	38
7465200924	speaker	the voice of the poem, not necessarily the poet	39
7465200925	stanza	a group of lines in a poem	40
7465200926	symbol	something that represents something else	41
7465200927	syntax	the ordering of words into patterns or sentences, sentence structure	42
7465200928	tercet	a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme	43
7465200929	terza rima	a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc	44
7465200930	theme	main thought expressed by a work	45
7465200931	tone	the author's attitude toward the subject	46
7465200932	understatement	a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is	47
7465200933	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
7465200934	meter	stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem	49