AP Literature - Poetry Terms Flashcards

6424577329	alliteration	the repitition of the initial consonant sounds in neighboring words	0
6424578755	assonance	the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words	1
6424580926	blank verse	poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, which must not be confused with free verse	2
6424585671	cacophony	harsh, clashing, or dissonant sounds, often produced by combinations of words that require a clipped, explosive delivery, or words that contain a number of plosive consonants	3
6424591619	consonance	the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different	4
6424594507	couplet	two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and are written to the same meter, or pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables	5
6424597642	dramatic monologue	a kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent audience of one or more persons. such poems reveal not the poet's own thoughts, but the mind of the impersonated character.	6
6424604745	end-stopped line	a line brought to a pause at which the end of a verse line coincides with the completion of a sentence, clause, or other independent unit of syntax. it is the opposite of enjambment.	7
6424611480	enjambment	the running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse line or couplet to the next without a punctuated pause	8
6424614423	epic	a long narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of one or more legendary heroes in a grand style	9
6424618553	euphony	a pleasing smoothness of sound, perceived by the ease with which the words can be spoken in combination	10
6424621759	foot	the basic unit of rhythmic measurement in a line of poetry	11
6424623816	free verse	poetry that is free of rhyme and meter and it resembles natural speech	12
6424628499	heroic couplet	two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc, with the thought usually completed in the two line unit	13
6424632366	iamb	a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, an unaccented syllable followed by an accented as in the word invade.	14
6424636553	lyric	a usually short, personal poem expressing the poet's emotions and thoughts rather than telling a story	15
6424639325	meter	the pattern of measured sound-units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verse	16
6424642859	octave	a group of eight verse lines forming the first part of a sonnet; or a stanza of eight lines	17
6424645205	ode	an elaborately formal lyric poem, often in the form of a lengthy address to a person or abstract entity, always serious and elevated in tone	18
6424648521	pastoral	a poem dealing with shepherds and rural life	19
6424649954	pentameter	a line of five feet. iambic _________, normally ten syllables, has had special status as the standard line in many poetry forms	20
6424653327	quatrain	a verse stanza of four lines, rhymed or unrhymed	21
6424654839	refrain	a line, group of lines, or part of a line repeated at regular or irregular intervals in a poem	22
6424658265	rhyme	a similarity of sound between two words	23
6424658266	end rhyme	rhyme which comes at the ends of lines of poetry	24
6424661800	internal rhyme	rhyme which comes within the line of poetry rather than at the usual end of the line	25
6424663763	feminine rhyme	two-syllable rhyme	26
6424665176	forced rhyme	meaning in the poem suffers because of the stilted nature of the rhyme	27
6424667154	masculine rhyme	one-syllable rhyme	28
6424667155	exact rhyme	identical rhyme between two words	29
6424671416	slant rhyme	inexact rhyme between two words	30
6424671417	eye rhyme	rhyme based on spelling rather than sound	31
6424673088	rhythm	the patterned flow of sound in poetry and prose.	32
6424677284	scansion	analyzing the meter in lines of poetry by counting and marking the accented and unaccented syllables, and dividing the lines into metrical feet	33
6424683305	sonnet	a fourteen-line lyric poem in iambic pentameter	34
6424684797	english sonnet	rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg. also called shakespearean sonnet.	35
6424688324	italian sonnet	rhyme scheme of abba, abba, cde, cde. also called petrarchan sonnet.	36
6424691620	stanza	a section or division of a poem, resembling paragraphs in prose	37
6424693534	stress	the emphasis placed on a word or syllable	38
6424693535	trochee	a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable, as in the word FORtune. it's the opposite of an iamb.	39