Pre-AP Literature Words Flashcards

6423159691	verse	any composition in lines of more of less regular rhythm, usually ending in rimes	0
6423159692	paraphrase	putting into your own words what we understand the poem to say, restating essential ideas	1
6423159693	summary	a brief condensation or gist, main idea, or story	2
6423159694	theme	the central thought of the poem	3
6423159695	subject	the main topic, whatever the poem is about	4
6423159696	carpe diem	Latin for "seize the day"	5
6423159697	lyric	a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker	6
6423159698	narrative poem	a poem whose main purpose is to tell a story	7
6423159699	dramatic poetry	presents the voice of an imaginary character speaking directly, without any narration by the author	8
6423159700	dramatic monologue	a poem written as a speech made by a character (other than the author) at some decisive moment	9
6423159701	didactic poetry	a poem apparently written to state a message or teach a body of knowledge	10
6423159702	prosody	the study of metrical structures in poetry	11
6423159703	scansion	a matter of listening to a poem and making sense of it	12
6423159704	foot	a unit of two or three syllables that contains one strong stress	13
6423159705	iambic	a line made up primarily of iambs	14
6423159706	iambs	an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable	15
6423159707	anapestic	a line made up primarily of anapests	16
6423159708	anapests	two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable	17
6423159709	trochaic	a line made up primarily of trochees	18
6423159710	trochees	a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable	19
6423159711	dactylic	a line made up primarily of dactyls	20
6423159712	dactyls	one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables	21
6423159713	rising	from unstressed to stressed	22
6423159714	falling	from stressed to unstressed	23
6423159715	iambic pentameter	a line of five iambs	24
6423159716	accentual meter	the poet does not write in feet but instead counts accents (stresses)	25
6423159717	quantitative meter	a meter constructed on the principle of vowel length	26
6423159718	form	general idea, the design of a thing as a whole	27
6423159719	closed form	a poet follows some sort of pattern	28
6423159720	open form	a poet views the writing of a poem a process	29
6423159721	epic	long narratives tracing the adventures of popular heroes	30
6423159722	blank verse	unrimed iambic pentameter	31
6423159723	couplet	a two line stanza, usually rimed	32
6423159724	heroic/closed couplet	two rimed lines of an iambic pentameter	33
6423159725	parallel	pair of words, phrases, clauses, or sentences side by side in agreement or similarity	34
6423159726	antithesis	in contrast and opposition to parallel (phrases not in agreement)	35
6423159727	tercet	a group of three lines	36
6423159728	Terza rima	made of tercets linked together by the rime scheme	37
6423159729	quatrain	a stanza consisting of four lines	38
6423159730	syllabic verse	the poet establishes a pattern of a certain number of syllables to a line	39
6423159731	acrostic	a poem in which the initial letter of each line, read downward, sells out a word	40
6423159732	fixed form	a poem inherits from other poems certain familiar elements of structure	41
6423159733	conventions	expected features such as themes, subjects, attitudes, or figures of speech	42
6423159734	sonnet	the fixed form	43
6423159735	English (Shakespearean) sonnet	rimes cohere in four clusters	44
6423159736	Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet	follows the rime scheme a b b a, a b b a in its octave then adds new rime sounds in the sestet	45
6423159737	octave	the first eight lines in a poem	46
6423159738	sestet	the last eight lines in a poem	47
6423159739	epigram	a short poem ending in a witty turn of thought to which the rest of the composition is intended to lead up	48
6423159740	limerick	five anapestic lines usually riming a a b b a	49
6423159741	triolet	a short lyric whose first two opening lines are repeated according to a set pattern	50