Poetic Terms AP Literature Flashcards

6067758335	alliteration	the repetition of initial consonant sounds Example"Silence surged softly..."	0
6067758336	assonance	the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables Examples: "purple curtain," "young love"	1
6067758340	meter	a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry	2
6067758341	Feet	are the individual building blocks of meter.	3
6067758342	Iambic	duh-DUH, as in "above"	4
6067758343	Anapestic	duh-duh-DUH as in "but of course"	5
6067758344	Dactylic	DUH-duh-duh, as in "honestly"	6
6067758345	Trochaic	DUH-duh, as in "pizza"	7
6067758346	Iambic pentameter	duh-DUH (five iambic feet in one line...Shakespearean sonnets)	8
6067758352	blank verse	verse written in unrhymed, iambic pentameter	9
6067758354	elegy	a poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual	10
6067758355	epic	a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society	11
6067758356	epitaph	an inscription on a gravestone or a commemorative poem written as if it were for that purpose	12
6067758357	free verse	unrhymed poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter. It seeks to capture the rhythms of speech	13
6067758360	lyric poem	verse that expresses the personal observations and feelings of a single speaker	14
6067758363	Shakespearean/English sonnet	a sonnet which consists of three quatrains and a couplet. The most common rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.	15
6067758364	Petrarchan/Italian sonnet	a sonnet which consists of an octave and a sestet with the rhyme scheme being abbaabba cdecde. There is usually a pronounced tonal shift between the octave and sestet as well.	16
6067758365	sestina	a poem that consists of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. It makes no use of refrain. The form is usually unrhymed; rather it has a fixed pattern of end-words which demands that these end-words in each stanza be the same, though arranged in a different sequence each time.	17
6067758368	couplet	two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. Heroic couplet is also in iambic pentameter.	18
6067758369	enjambment	the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction of a verse or couplet on to the next verse or couplet. In other words, the line is not end-stopped, but wraps around to the next line.	19
6067758370	stanza	a group of lines in a poem, considered as a unit, like a paragraph in prose Examples of types of stanzas Couplet, two lines that rhyme Tercet- 3 lines quatrain 4 lines, Cinquain- 5 lines, sestet 6 lines Septets- 7 lines, octaves 8 lines	20
6067758371	allusion	reference to a well-known person, text, historical event, etc. Example Shakespearean and Biblical allusions	21
6067758372	apostrophe	when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed.	22
6067758373	conceit	unconventional/unexpected metaphors	23
6067758374	metaphor	unexpected comparison between two unalike things	24
6067758375	extended metaphor	a metaphor carried throughout the text or poem	25
6067758376	personfication	giving human qualities to an inanimate object or force	26
6067758377	connotation	all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	27
6067758378	denotation	dictionary definition of a word	28
6067758379	diction	word choice. To discuss a writer's diction is to consider the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, the vividness of the language, and the accompanying connotations of a specific word choice	29
6067758380	metonymy	a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. Example: The soldier led with his gun.	30
6067758381	synechdoche	a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.	31