AP 12 Literature Poetry Terms with Definitions Flashcards

8365919201	Blank verse	Poetry that has a formal rhythmic pattern, but no regular rhyme scheme	0
8365919202	Heroic couplet	A traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter	1
8365919203	Cadence	The rhythmic pace or rising and falling of a line of poetry	2
8365919204	Caesura	A break or pause in the middle of a line of poetry	3
8365919205	Dirge	A lyric poem or song commemorating a death	4
8365919206	Conceit	A fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate extended metaphor	5
8365919207	Elegy	A mournful, melancholic, or plaintive poem, often written about one who is parted or dead	6
8365919208	Enjambment	The continuation of a sentence or phrase beyond the end of a line of the verse	7
8365919209	Allusion	A figure of speech whereby the author refers to a subject matter such as a place, event, or literary work by way of a passing reference	8
8365919210	Foot	A unit of measure consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables	9
8365919211	Fable	A brief story illustrating a moral which often includes talking animals or animated objects as principal characters	10
8365919212	Trochee	A metrical unit consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable	11
8365919213	Lyric	A short poem expressing the speaker's emotions or internal thoughts	12
8365919214	Measure	A metrical grouping that forms a unit	13
8365919215	Parallelism	A balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure	14
8365919216	Dramatic Monologue	A poem in which a single character narrates a story	15
8365919217	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	16
8365919218	Quatrain	A verse or group of four lines of poetry, usually with a unifying rhyme scheme.	17
8365919219	Sestet	A verse or group of six lines of poetry that rhyme with a varying pattern; used for the last six lines of Italian sonnets.	18
8365919220	Octave	A verse or group of eight lines of poetry with a unifying rhyme scheme; used for the first eight lines of Italian sonnets.	19
8365919221	Leitmotif	A recurring device loosely linked with a character, setting, or event which alerts the audience to a continuing association or theme	20
8365919222	Scansion	The act of determining the metrical character of a line of verse	21
8365919223	Parody	A composition that imitates the style of another composition, normally for comic effect and often by applying that style to an outlandish or inappropriate subject	22
8365919224	Volta	A turn or shift of thought in a poem, in which the speaker makes a change in argument or outlook	23
8365919225	Apostrophe	The direct address of an absent person, an object, an animal, or an abstract idea	24