Ap Language-Vocabulary Quiz Flashcards

7616024143	Sonnet	A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter. Usually divided into three quatrains and a couplet.	0
7616027306	Iambic Pentameter	Poetry that is written in lines of 10 syllables, alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"	1
7616029322	Free Verse	Poetry that doesn't have much meter or rhyme.	2
7616032240	Meter	A regular pattern to the syllables in lines of poetry.	3
7616037966	Stressed and unstressed syllables	In every word of more than one syllable, one of the syllables is stressed, or said with more force than the other syllable(s). In the name "Nathan," the first syllable is stressed. In the word "unhappiness," the second of the four syllables is stressed.	4
7616045669	Rhyme Scheme	The pattern of a poem's end rhymes.	5
7616057579	End Rhyme	When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme.	6
7616060978	Slant Rhyme	When a poet creates a rhyme, but the two words do not rhyme exactly - they are merely similar.	7
7616064488	Internal rhyme	When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line.	8
7616074762	Onomatopoeia	The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes.	9
7616077927	Consonance	The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words.	10
7616081864	Assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.	11
7616083534	Alliteration	The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words.	12