AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

5875193487	Accentual Verse	has a fixed number of stresses per line regardless of the number of syllables that are present.	0
5875238106	Anapest	Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable	1
5875247730	Ballad	A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.	2
5875255340	Blank Verse	verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.	3
5875261616	Cadence	rhythmic rise and fall	4
5875267026	Caesura	a rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence.	5
5875280047	Choriamb	a metrical foot consisting of two short (or unstressed) syllables between two long (or stressed) ones.	6
5875332729	Common Measure	a metrical pattern for hymns in which the stanzas have four lines containing eight and six syllables alternately rhyming abcb or abab. (Also called common meter)	7
5875347058	Conceit	a figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors.	8
5875355239	Dactyl	a metrical foot, or a beat in a line, containing three syllables in which first one is accented followed by second and third unaccented syllables (accented/unaccented/unaccented) in quantitative meter such as in the word "humanly."	9
5875505725	Dimeter	a line of verse consisting of two metrical feet.	10
5875505726	Double Dactyl	Difficult light verse form invented by the American poet Anthony Hecht, consisting of two quatrains where the first three lines are two dactyls e.g. 'Higgledy-piggledy' and the fourth is a dactyl and a macron. The last word of each quatrain must also rhyme.	11
5875509971	End-Stopped	a term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation	12
5875509972	Eye Rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling but does not rhyme because of pronunciation	13
5875511968	Foot	a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables.	14
5875519660	Hendecasyllabic	a line of eleven syllables, used in Ancient Greek and Latin quantitative verse as well as in medieval and modern European poetry.	15
5875519661	Heptameter	a verse line containing seven feet	16
5875521653	Hexameter	a verse line containing six feet	17
5875521654	Iamb	a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable	18
5875525006	Internal Rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	19
5875525007	Limerick	a comic verse, containing five anapestic (unstressed/unstressed/stressed) lines in which the first, second and fifth lines are longer, rhyme together and follow three metrical feet, while the third and fourth lines rhyme together, are shorter and follow two metrical feet.	20
5875526651	Lyric Poem	A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker	21
5875526652	Meter	a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem.	22
5875528224	Monometer	a line of verse of one measure or foot.	23
5875528225	Narrative Poem	a poem that tells a story	24
5875529770	Octameter	a line of verse consisting of eight metrical feet	25
5875529771	Pentameter	a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet	26
5875536335	Quantitative Meter	in classical Greek and Latin poetry measures the length and shortness of vowel syllables, and is the heart of the dactylic hexameter, which defines the epic poetry of the Greeks and Romans.	27
5875536336	Quatrain	a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.	28
5875539381	Slant Rhyme	rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme	29
5875539382	End Rhyme	A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line	30
5875542804	Feminine Rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables--running, gunning; properly, the penultimate syllables are stressed and the final syllables are unstressed	31
5875542805	Identical Rhyme	Rhyming of the same word often at the end of a line of verse	32
5875545366	Masculine Rhyme	a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable--spent, went	33
5875547752	Monorhyme	a poem in which all the lines have the same end rhyme.	34
5875548905	Rhyme Royal	a form of verse introduced into English by Chaucer, consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter in which there are three rhymes, the first line rhyming with the third, the second with the fourth and fifth, and the sixth with the seventh.	35
5875548906	Rhythm	Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables	36
5875550189	Scansion	to divide the poetry or a poetic form into feet by pointing out different syllables based on their lengths.	37
5875550190	Sestet	the last six lines of a sonnet.	38
5875554143	Shakespearean Sonnet (English)	There are fourteen lines. The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with four lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet. The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab cdcd efef. The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg.	39
5875559910	Petrarchan Sonnet (Italian)	a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd.	40
5875563619	Spenserian	a sonnet in which the lines are grouped into three interlocked quatrains and a couplet and the rhyme scheme is abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee	41
5875563620	Spondee	a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.	42
5875564911	Stress	the emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others; the arrangement of stresses within a poem is the foundation of poetic rhythm.	43
5875564912	Syllable	Rhythm is a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form.	44
5875566766	Tercet	a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet.	45
5875568057	Terza Rima	A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc.	46
5875568058	Tetrameter	line of poetic verse that consists of four metrical feet.	47
5875571651	Trimeter	line of poetic verse that consists of three metrical feet.	48
5875571652	Trochee	A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable	49
5875574933	Vers Libre (free verse)	an open form of poetry that abandons consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or other forms of musical pattern.	50
5875577855	Villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	51