AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

3216265302	Dramatic Poem	a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as means of achieving poetic ends.	0
3216278227	Elegy	a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme.	1
3216282520	End-stopped	a line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, a comma, a semicolon, an exclamation point, or a question mark are end-stopped lines.	2
3216288088	Enjambment	the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one of poetry to the next.	3
3216295874	Extended metaphor	an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem.	4
3216302881	Euphony	a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate. Its opposite is cacophony.	5
3216310112	Eye rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation.	6
3216325559	Feminine rhyme	a rhyme of two syllables, on stressed and one unstressed, as "waken" and "forsaken" and "audition" and "rendition"	7
3216332523	Figurative language	writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) such as METAPHOR, IRONY, and SMILIE.	8
3216344785	Free verse	poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical.	9
3216352487	Heroic couplet	two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit.	10
3216360019	Hyperbole	A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration.	11
3216366714	Imagery	the images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work.	12
3216375071	Irony	the contrast between actual meaning and suggestion of another meaning. Verbal irony is a figure of speech in which the actual intent is expressed in words which carry the opposite meaning.	13
3216386553	Internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end.	14
3216393329	Lyric poem	any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings.	15
3219431618	Rationalism	1750-1800	16
3219429995	Romanticism	1800-1860	17
3219431217	Trancendentalism	1840-1860	18
3219430620	Realism	18500-1900	19