AP Literature: Poetry Terms Flashcards

8885518501	alliteration	repetition of similar consonant sounds	0
8885518502	allusion	a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event person or work	1
8885518503	apostrophe	an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage	2
8885518504	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds	3
8885518505	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	4
8885518506	blank verse	a poem with a regular meter but no rhyme	5
8885518507	cacophony	a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones	6
8885518511	couplet	2 consecutive rhyming lines	7
8885518512	heroic couplet	Two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth-century verse. See more at https://www.thoughtco.com/heroic-couplet-definition-4140168	8
8885518513	mock heroic	imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject. used by Alexander Pope, especially in a Rape of the Lock * response to the deluge of epic, pastoral, heroic poems that were being written in the 17th century	9
8885518515	didactic poem	a poem which is intended to teach a lesson	10
8885518516	dramatic poem	a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama)	11
8885518517	elegy	a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead	12
8885518518	enjambment	the continuation from one line to the next with no pause	13
8885518519	epic poem	a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero	14
8885518521	eye rhyme/slant rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation	15
8885518522	free verse	poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme	16
8885518524	iambic pentameter	five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables.	17
8885518526	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	18
8885518527	lyric poem	a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical quality	19
8885518529	narrative poem	a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples)	20
8885518530	octave	an eight line stanza	21
8885518531	ode	a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style	22
8885518536	quatrain	four line stanza	23
8885518537	refrain	a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza	24
8885518538	rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry	25
8885518539	rhythm	the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable	26
8885518540	rhyme scheme	the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.	27
8885518541	sestet	a six line stanza	28
8885518543	sonnet	a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme	29
8885518545	stanza	a group of lines in a poem	30
8885518548	tercet	a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme	31
8885518549	terza rima	a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc	32
8885518552	understatement	a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is	33
8885518553	villanelle	a 19 line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. Line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18 and line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, 19.	34
8885518554	meter	stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem	35
8886367412	haiku	three non rhyming lines of poetry; lines 1 and 3 have five syllables, line 2 has seven syllables	36
8886378553	pastoral	type of poem that usually focuses on describing a rural place, but the terms will be peace and harmony	37
8886387104	Petrarchian/Italian sonnet	14-line poem divided into two sections by two different groups of rhyming sounds. The first 8 lines is called the octave and rhymes abbaabba	38
8886397402	Shakespearean/English sonnet	14-line poem with the following rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg	39
8886412328	Spenserian sonnet	A sonnet in which the lines are grouped into three interlocked quatrains and a couplet and the rhyme scheme is abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee	40