AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards
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| 4337315475 | Caesura | rhythmical pause in a poetic line or sentence (Feminine: less abrupt; Masculine: staccato) | 0 | |
| 4337315476 | Scansion | to divide the poetry or a poetic form into feet by pointing out different syllables based on their lengths | 1 | |
| 4337317101 | Enjambment | moving from one line to another without punctuation | 2 | |
| 4337317102 | Quatrain | a verse with four lines having an independent or separate theme | 3 | |
| 4337318716 | Couplet | two successive rhyming lines in a verse that has the same meter | 4 | |
| 4337323192 | Refrain | verse/phrase that repeats at regular intervals in different stanzas | 5 | |
| 4337324724 | Persona | a voice or an assumed role of a character that represents the thoughts of a writer or a specific person the writer wants to present as his mouthpiece | 6 | |
| 4337324725 | Cacophony | the use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds ( e.g., p, b, d, g, k, ch-, sh- etc.) | 7 | |
| 4337326051 | Euphony | use of words having pleasant and harmonious effects (the vowels, semi-vowels and the nasal consonants e.g. l, m, n, r, y) | 8 | |
| 4337326052 | Assonance | when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds | 9 | |
| 4337327423 | Consonance | repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase | 10 | |
| 4337327424 | Alliteration | number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series | 11 | |
| 4337328931 | Onomatopoeia | word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing | 12 | |
| 4337328932 | Internal Rhyme | metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhymes with each other | 13 | |
| 4337330356 | End Rhyme | occurs when last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other | 14 | |
| 4337330357 | True Rhyme | A perfect rhyme is a case in which two words rhyme in such a way that their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical (e.g. sight and light, right and might, rose and dose etc.) | 15 | |
| 4337332476 | Slant Rhyme | stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match | 16 | |
| 4337332477 | Sight Rhyme | final syllables have the same spellings but are pronounce differently (e.g. cough and bough, love and move) | 17 | |
| 4337336354 | Sonnet | 14 fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme | 18 | |
| 4337336355 | Elegy | in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased. It typically laments or mourns the death of the individual | 19 | |
| 4337339992 | Epigram | clever and witty statement expressed in just a few lines, pointing out foibles and truths of mankind | 20 | |
| 4337339993 | Dramatic Monologue | a character speaks to the silent listener | 21 | |
| 4337341610 | Iamb | Combination of unstressed and stressed syllable - (daDUM) | 22 | |
| 4337341611 | Trochee | Combination of stressed and unstressed syllables - (DUMda) | 23 | |
| 4337341612 | Anapest | Combination of two unstressed and a stressed syllable - (dadaDUM) | 24 | |
| 4337343343 | Dactyl | Combination of stressed and two unstressed syllables - (DUMdada) | 25 | |
| 4337343344 | Spondee | Combination of unstressed, stressed and unstressed syllable - (daDUMda) | 26 | |
| 4337345191 | Pyrrhic | Combination of two unstressed syllables - (dada) | 27 | |
| 4337346708 | Amphibrach | Combination of unstressed, stressed and unstressed syllable - (daDUMda) | 28 | |
| 4337347947 | Iambic Meter | unstressed/stressed | 29 | |
| 4337347948 | Meter | sequence of several feet | 30 | |
| 4337355549 | Pentameter | five strong metrical feet or beats | 31 | |
| 4337355550 | Free Verse | free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms | 32 | |
| 4337357180 | Blank Verse | un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter | 33 | |
| 4337362538 | Inversion | Normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter. | 34 | |
| 4337363653 | Anaphora | deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect | 35 | |
| 4337363654 | Antithesis | two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect | 36 | |
| 4337365952 | Aphorism | statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner | 37 | |
| 4337365953 | Chiasmus | two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect | 38 | |
| 4386161505 | Foot | measuring unit in poetry, which is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables | 39 |