AP Literature: Poetry Terms Flashcards

6656027218	alliteration	repetition of similar consonant sounds	0
6656027219	allusion	a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event person or work	1
6656027220	antithesis	a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas	2
6656027221	apostrophe	an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage	3
6656027222	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds	4
6656027223	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	5
6656027224	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	6
6656027225	cacophony	a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones	7
6656027226	caesura	a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause	8
6656027227	conceit	an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy or extended metaphor and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things.	9
6656027228	couplet	2 consecutive rhyming lines	10
6656027229	diction	author/poet's word choice	11
6656027230	didactic poem	a poem which is intended to teach a lesson	12
6656027231	dramatic poem	a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama)	13
6656027232	elegy	a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead	14
6656027233	end stopped	a line with a pause at the end	15
6656027234	enjambment	the continuation from one line to the next with no pause	16
6656027235	epic poem	a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero	17
6656027236	extended metaphor	an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem	18
6656027237	eye rhyme/slant rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation	19
6656027238	free verse	poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme	20
6656027239	heroic couplet	two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter (ten syllables, unstressed/stressed)	21
6656027240	hyperbole	exaggeration	22
6656027241	imagery	anything that appeals to at least one of the five senses,	23
6656027242	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	24
6656027243	lyric poem	a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality	25
6656027244	metaphor	a direct comparison	26
6656027245	metonymy	a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself	27
6656027246	narrative poem	a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples)	28
6656027247	octave	an eight line stanza	29
6656027248	ode	a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style	30
6656027249	onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning	31
6656027250	oxymoron	a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression	32
6656027251	paradox	a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense	33
6656027252	parallelism	similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry	34
6656027253	personification	giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics	35
6656027254	quatrain	four line stanza	36
6656027255	refrain	a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza	37
6656027256	rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry	38
6656027257	rhythm	the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable	39
6656027258	rhyme scheme	the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.	40
6656027259	sestet	a six line stanza	41
6656027260	simile	a comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using like, as or than	42
6656027261	sonnet	a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme	43
6656027262	speaker	the voice of the poem, not necessarily the poet	44
6656027263	stanza	a group of lines in a poem	45
6656027264	structure	the arrangement of materials within a work	46
6656027265	symbol	something that represents something else	47
6656027266	synecdoche	a form of metaphor in which mentioning a part signifies the whole	48
6656027267	syntax	the ordering of words into patterns or sentences, sentence structure	49
6656027268	tercet	a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme	50
6656027269	terza rima	a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc	51
6656027270	theme	main thought expressed by a work	52
6656027271	tone	the author's attitude toward the subject	53
6656027272	understatement	a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is	54
6656027273	villanelle	a 19 line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. Line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18 and line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, 19.	55
6656027274	meter	stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem	56
6656028041	Epitaph	a phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone.	57
6656030005	Spondee	a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.	58