AP Literature Flashcards

8556606263	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	0
8556606264	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	1
8556608667	iamb	a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables	2
8556608668	trochee	stressed, unstressed	3
8556609290	spondee	a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables	4
8556609291	dactyl	finger, toe	5
8556610280	anapest	three-syllable foot, stress on third	6
8556611657	dimeter	a line of verse consisting of two metrical feet	7
8556611658	trimeter	a line of verse consisting of three metrical feet	8
8556613252	pentameter	a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet	9
8556613253	hexameter	a verse line having six metrical feet	10
8556614404	heptometer	a verse line having seven metrical feet	11
8556616493	octameter	a verse line having eight metrical feet	12
8556618572	near/slant rhyme	words that almost rhyme	13
8556618573	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	14
8556620341	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	15
8556620342	quatrain	4 line stanza	16
8556622074	couplet	two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	17
8556623007	triplet	3 line stanza	18
8556628744	tercet	3 line stanza	19
8556630445	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	20
8556630446	caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	21
8556631611	end-stopped	a line with a pause at the end	22
8556632965	enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	23
8556633837	sonnet	14 line poem	24
8556635973	Italian/Petrarchan sonnet	comprised of 1 octave and one sestet: ABBAABBA CDECDE	25
8556657021	elizabethan sonnet	a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a couplet	26
8556658383	narrative poem	a poem that tells a story	27
8556658384	dramatic poem	a poem that has a conflict	28
8556659574	lyric poem	A short poem of songlike quality	29
8556659575	haiku	3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature	30
8556661541	sestina	a highly structured poetic form of 39 lines, written in iambic pentameter	31
8556662706	villanelle	A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern	32
8556662707	apostrophe	address to an absent or imaginary person	33
8556665183	ballad	a love song	34
8556666795	elegy	a sad or mournful poem	35
8556666796	epic	a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	36
8556668389	mock heroic epic	a parody of a heroic epic	37