AP Literature Terms #7 Flashcards
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| 6806099785 | Prosody | The mechanics of verse poetry-sounds, rhythms, scansion, meter, stanzaic form, alliteration, rhyme | 0 | |
| 6806099786 | Pun | A play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning | 1 | |
| 6806099787 | Quatrain | A stanza of four lines, often rhyming in ABAB pattern | 2 | |
| 6806099788 | Refrain | A line or set of lines at the end of a stanza or section of a longer poem, repeated at regular intervals | 3 | |
| 6806099789 | Rhyme | A matching similarity of sounds in two or more words | 4 | |
| 6806099790 | Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of a rhyme | 5 | |
| 6806099791 | Rhythm | The varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech or poetry | 6 | |
| 6806099792 | Satire | An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor or critique | 7 | |
| 6806099793 | Scanudon | The act of scanning a poem to determine its meter | 8 | |
| 6806099794 | Sestet | Six lines they rhyme with a varying pattern such as CDECDE OR CDCCDC | 9 |