AP Literature - Poetry Terms Flashcards

4381758791	Allegory	Symbolic narrative in which surface details imply secondary meaning. Often takes form of story in which characters represent moral qualities.	0
4381779092	Alliteration	Repetition of consonant sounds (especially at the beginning of words)	1
4381784128	Anapest	Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one (ex. "com-pre-HEND" or "in-ter-VENE")	2
4381802747	Assonance	Repetition of similar vowel sounds (ex. "I rose and told him of my woe")	3
4381828262	Ballad	Narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. Stories of hardship, love, tragedy, etc are common.	4
4381855375	Blank Verse	Line of poetry or prose in UNRHYMED iambic pentameter	5
4381875125	Caesura	Strong pause within a line of verse (ex. "He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, / Off-hand-like --just as I-- / Was out of work-had sold his traps -- / No other reason why")	6
4381892516	Climax	Turning point of action in a plot of play or story. Point of greatest tension in a work.	7
4381898100	Closed Form	Type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in elements such as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern.	8
4381908837	Connotation	Associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning	9
4381915595	Convention	Customary feature of a literary work. Defining features of particular literary genres (ex. chorus in Greek tragedies, explicit moral in fables, certain rhyme scheme in villanelles, etc)	10
4381931981	Couplet	Pair of rhymed lines (usually at end of Shakespeare's sonnets)	11
4381938206	Dactyl	Stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones (ex. "FLUT-ter-ring" or "BLUE-ber-ry")	12
4381945915	Denotation	Dictionary meaning	13
4381952197	Diction	Author's choice of words	14
4381954878	Elegy	Lyric poem that laments the dead	15
4381956922	Elision	Omission of unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry	16
4381964687	Enjambment	Run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next (ex. "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive. I call / That piece a wonder, now...")	17
4381980328	Epic	Long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero (ex. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey)	18
4381994110	Epigram	Brief witty poem, often satirical	19
4382002622	Flashback	Interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame	20
4382019446	Foot	Metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables	21
4382029198	Foreshadowing	Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story	22
4382031610	Free verse	Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. Not bound by early poetic conventions (common with modern and contemporary poets of 20th/21st century)	23
4382045049	Hyperbole	Exaggeration	24
4382047711	Iamb	An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (ex. "to-DAY")	25
4382052563	Irony	Contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen	26
4382060692	Lyric Poem	Type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and expression of feeling	27
4382064603	Metaphor	Comparison between essentially unlike things WITHOUT comparative word such as "like" or "as"	28
4382071943	Meter	Measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poetry	29
4382074749	Metonymy	Figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea (ex. "We have always remained loyal to the crown" ...crown = king)	30
4388661809	Narrative Poem	Poem that tells a story	31
4388663279	Octave	Eight-lined unit, which may constitute a stanza	32
4388710151	Ode	Long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form. Usually a serious poem on an exalted subject.	33
4388713404	Onomatopoeia	Use of words to imitate sounds they describe	34
4388722836	Open Form	Type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, metrical pattern, and overall poetic structure.	35
4388731087	Parody	Humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work, sometimes sarcastic, but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation	36
4388735633	Personification	Endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities	37
4388744221	Pyrrhic	Metrical foot with two unstressed syllables	38
4388751206	Quatrain	Four-line stanza in a poem	39
4388754769	Recognition	Point at which a character understands his or her situation as it really is	40
4388765529	Reversal	Point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist	41
4388776666	Rising Meter	Poetic meters such as iambic and anapestic that move or ascend from an unstressed to stressed syllable	42
4388816613	Satire	Literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies	43
4388819372	Sestet	Six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem. Last six-lines of an Italian sonnet.	44
4388825351	Sestina	Poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter. Six-line stanza repeat in an intricate and prescribed order the final word in each of the first six lines. After the sixth stanza, there is a three-line envoi, which uses the six repeating words, two per line.	45
4388834233	Simile	Figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using "like", "as", or "as though"	46
4388844496	Sonnet	Fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. Shakespearean or English is arranged as three quatrains and a couplet (rhyme: abab). Petrarchan or Italian sonnet divides into two parts: eight line octave and six-line sestet (rhyme: abba)	47
4388860472	Spondee	Metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables	48
4388863615	Synecdoche	Figure of speech in which a part is substituted for a whole	49
4388867107	Tercet	Three-line stanza	50
4388875693	Trochee	Accented syllable followed by an unaccented one	51
4388882257	Understatement	Writer or speaker says less than what he or she means	52
4388883836	Villanelle	Nineteen line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition	53