AP Literature - Poem Terminology Flashcards

5944143121	Allegory	characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities; the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface story	0
5944144932	Alliteration	the repetition of initial consonants	1
5944147503	Allusion	reference to a text or myth outside the poem itself, that carries its own history and meaning	2
5944148901	Analogy	a comparison of similar things often for the purpose of using something familiar to explain something unfamiliar	3
5944151505	Apostrophe	the device, usually in poetry, of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or personified abstraction	4
5944153824	Archetype	a pattern or model of action, a character type, or an image that recurs consistently enough in life and literature to be considered universal	5
5944156970	Assonance	the repetition of vowel sounds in a line or series of lines	6
5944161068	Blank Verse	poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; lines do not rhyme	7
5944161069	Connotation	the associations or impressions carried by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning	8
5944163437	Consonance	the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words and within words	9
5944165365	Couplet	two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	10
5944168736	Denotation	a direct or specific meaning (dictionary meaning)	11
5944169560	Didactic	intended to instruct; morally instructive	12
5944171362	Dramatic irony	a situation in which the reader understands the meaning of something but the character does not	13
5944174851	Dramatic monologue	a poem in which a single character, overheard speaking to a silent speaker, reveals a dramatic situation	14
5944176879	Elegy	a poem of sorrow or mourning for the dead	15
5944180350	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence beyond the end of one line of poetry; a run-on line	16
5944182093	Foot	the basic unit of rhythmic measurement in a line of poetry	17
5944183921	Free Verse	poetry that avoids regularized meter and has no specific recurrent stress rhythms	18
5944192624	Hyperbole	an exaggeration used to emphasize a point	19
5944193513	Iambic	an unaccented syllable followed by an accented symbol	20
5944195142	Internal Rhyme	the rhyming of two or more words in the same line of poetry	21
5944196778	Metaphor	a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to or identified with another, dissimilar thing without using like or as	22
5944199579	Motif	a recurring image, word, phrase, idea, object, or situation that appears in various works or throughout the same work	23
5944202147	Ode	long and elaborate poem, usually dignified in tone and often written to praise someone or mark an important occasion	24
5944204157	Paradox	a statement that, while self-contradictory, is nonetheless true	25
5944205457	Parody	a mocking imitation of a literary work, usually for comic effect	26
5944206857	Pastoral	a poem having to do with rural life	27
5944207608	Personification	a figure of speech in which human characteristics and sensibilities are attributed to animals, plants, inanimate objects, natural forces, or abstract ideas	28
5944210736	Prose	all forms of ordinary writing lacking the regular rhythmic patterns found in poetry	29
5944212227	Satire	literature that blends ironic humor and wit with criticism for the purpose of ridiculing human foibles and frailties in individuals and institutions; seeks to correct and reform through ridicule	30
5944215357	Sestet	a six-line poem or stanza	31
5944216177	Simile	a comparison of two things, indicated by like or as	32
5944218540	Situational Irony	the contrast that exists between what is intended and what actually takes place	33
5944221205	Soliloquy	a monologue in which the character is alone and speaking only to himself	34
5944223370	Sonnet	a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter	35
5944224899	Tone	the poet's attitude toward its subject and theme	36
5944226836	Understatement	a type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is	37
5944228608	Verbal Irony	a contrast between what is said and what is actually meant	38
5944229887	Verse	a synonym for poetry; sometimes used to refer to a single line of poetry	39