Poetry Terms for AP Literature Flashcards

7121421839	Ode	a kind of poem, usually praising something. ... An ode is a form of lyric poetry — expressing emotion — and it's usually addressed to someone or something.	0
7121421840	Ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. a narrative poem that originally was set to music. The typical "ballad meter" was an alternation between lines in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. The main feature in all ballads was their narrative structure and repetition of certain lines or even whole stanzas.	1
7121422480	Dramatic monologue	a type of poem in which the speaker is directly addressing and talking to some other person. The speaker in such poems usually speaks alone, in a one way conversation, and so it is called a monologue.	2
7121422481	Elegy	a form of literature which can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased. It typically laments or mourns the death of the individual.	3
7121422482	Lyric	a collection of verses and choruses, making up a complete song, or a short and non-narrative poem. A lyric uses a single speaker, who expresses personal emotions or thoughts.	4
7121423007	End Rhyme	occurs when the last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other.	5
7121423008	Quatrain	a verse with four lines, or even a full poem containing four lines, having an independent and separate theme.	6
7121423009	Tercet	a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet; a three-lined stanza or poem that often contains a rhyme. There are many different types of tercets. They can be easily read, and when they rhyme they have a certain type of flow, like rolling waves.	7
7121423801	Enjambment	The running over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation; the opposite of end-stopped. the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	8
7121424308	Iambic Pentameter	a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.	9
7121424309	Sonnet	the sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, which employs one of several rhyme schemes and adheres to a tightly structured thematic organization.	10
7121439777	Couplet	two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. a literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought. It is marked by a usual rhythm, rhyme scheme, and incorporation of specific utterances.	11