AP Literature Poetry Vocab Flashcards

5403389962	slant rhyme	word sound similar, but don't rhyme exactly	0
5403393591	internal rhyme	rhyme hat occurs within a line	1
5403396009	feminine rhyme	rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or two unstressed syllables	2
5403399735	sight rhyme	rhyme in spelling, but not in sound	3
5403399736	rhyme scheme	the pattern of rhymed lines in a poem	4
5403416466	consonance	the repetition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds	5
5403420819	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together	6
5403428764	alliteration	the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together	7
5403433611	euphony (euphonious)	the sound of words that are pleasing to the ear	8
5403444137	cacophony (cacophonous)	a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	9
5403450593	dissonance (dissonant)	lack of harmony, clashing sounds	10
5403453744	sibilant	having a hissing sound	11
5403458121	onomatopoeia	the use of a words whose sound imitates what it is naming	12
5403463111	meter	rhythm and line length	13
5403465418	scansion	determining rhythm and line length	14
5403465445	rhythm	the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language	15
5403468750	iamb (iambic)	unstressed --> stressed	16
5403474210	anapest (anapestic)	two unstressed --> stressed	17
5403477748	trochee (trochaic)	stressed --> unstressed	18
5403480119	dactyl (dactylic)	stress --> two unstressed	19
5403483192	spondee (spondaic)	two stressed	20
5403486416	dimeter	two metrical feet	21
5403491476	trimeter	three metrical feet	22
5403491477	tetrameter	four metrical feet	23
5403493326	pentameter	five metrical feet	24
5403495296	heptameter	seven metrical feet	25
5403495297	hexameter	six metrical feet	26
5403496991	octameter	eight metrical feet	27
5403496992	enjambment	sentence continuation with pause beyond the end of a line	28
5403504047	end-stopped lines	a line of poetry in which the meter and the meaning conclude with the end of the line	29
5403507376	couplet	two-line stanza	30
5403509120	tercet	three-line stanza	31
5403511204	quatrain	four-line stanza	32
5403515924	cinquain	five-line stanza	33
5403517762	sestet	six-line stanza	34
5403519824	octave	eight-line stanza	35
5403519825	speaker	the imaginary voice or persona assumed by the author of a poem	36
5403523846	haiku	a brief, unrhymed, three-line poem with 5 syllables in the first and third lines and 7 in the second	37
5403529326	Villanelle	a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets each with the rhyme scheme aba, and a final quatrain with the rhyme scheme abaa	38
5403534891	terza rima	an interlocking, three-line stanza form with the rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc ded and so on	39
5403541756	Petrarchan/Italian sonnet	sonnet with two parts: octave (problem) with rhyme scheme abbaabba and a sestet (solution) with thyme scheme cdecde or cdcdcd	40
5403548433	English sonnet	three quatrains followed by a couplet with rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg	41
5403552051	sonnet sequence	a group of sonnets on a related theme	42
5403554861	blank verse	poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	43
5403559192	free verse	poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme	44
5403560890	dramatic monologue	a poem in which a character addresses one or more listeners who remains silent or whose replies are not revealed	45
5403564826	lyric poem	poem that focuses on expressing emotions or thoughts, rather than on telling a story	46
5403567576	narrative poem	poem that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters	47
5403570565	allegory	a story in which the characters, settings and events stand for abstract or moral concepts	48
5403573783	pastoral	a type of literature that depicts country life in idyllic, idealized terms	49
5403581225	apostrophe (apostrophize)	a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something non-human as if it were	50
5403588394	ode	a complex, generally long lyric poem on a serious subject	51
5403593134	elegy	a poem that mourns the death of someone or loss of something	52
5403595632	folk/literary ballad	a song or song-like poem that tells a story written anonymously and passed orally or by a well-known author	53
5403598962	poetry/verse	metrical grouping	54
5403600577	understatement	a figure of speech that consists ofsaying less than what it really meant or saying something with less force than is appropriate	55
5403607584	satire (satirical)	a kind of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly in order to bring about reform	56
5403611283	theme	the central idea or insight about human experience revealed in a work of literature	57
5403613191	diction	a writer's or speaker's choice of words	58
5403615694	tone	the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or a character	59
5403619213	mood	the mood or feeling in a literary work	60
5403621015	allusion (allusive)	a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from culture	61
5403623286	connotation/denotation	all the meaning attached to word versus the literal definition of a word	62
5403625791	imagery	language that appeals to the senses	63
5403627802	paradox	an apparent contradiction that is actually true	64
5403630815	metaphor (metaphorical)	a figure of speech that compares two seemingly unlike things without connector words	65
5403633375	simile	a figure of speech making comparisons with connector words	66
5403635635	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which the part represents the whole	67
5403638013	metonomy	a figure of speech in which something closely related to a thing or suggested by it is substituted for the thing itself	68
5403641789	conceit	a fanciful and elaborate figure of speech that makes a surprising connection between two seemingly dissimilar things	69
5403645337	hyperbole	a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect	70
5403650656	oxymoron	a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory ideas	71
5403652812	synesthesia	a term used for descriptions of one kind of sensation in terms of another	72