Ocar AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

9850190436	allegory	story or poem that can be used to reveal a hidden meaning	0
9850190437	alliteration	beginning of same letter or sound in closely connected words	1
9850190438	allusion	indirect of passing reference	2
9850190439	anaphora	repetition in first part of a sentence , to have an artistic meaning	3
9850190440	apostrophe	figure of speech used to adresss an imaginary character	4
9850190441	approximate rhyme	words in rhyming pattern that sound alike	5
9850190442	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	6
9850190443	blank verse	poetry written in meter without an ending rhyme	7
9850190444	cacophony	blend of unharmonious sounds	8
9850190445	caesura	pause in the middle of a line	9
9850190446	catharsis	the release of emotions through art (emotional cleanse)	10
9850190447	connotation	secondary meaning to a word	11
9850190448	consonance	repetition of same consonant in words close together	12
9850190449	couplet	two rhyming lines in a verse	13
9850190450	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	14
9850190451	double rhyme	rhyme where the repeated vowel is in the second last syllable of words involved (ex; born scorn)	15
9850190452	end rhyme	rhymes occurring at the end of line	16
9850190453	end stopped line	line ending in regular punctuation	17
9850190454	English sonnet	a sonnet rhyming ababcdcdededgg	18
9850190455	euphony	smooth choice and arrangement of sounds	19
9850190456	extended figure	A figure of speech sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem.	20
9850190457	feminine rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	21
9850190458	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	22
9850190459	figure of speech	a way of saying something other than the ordinary way	23
9850190460	foot	basic unit in the scansion or measurement of verse , stressed and un stressed syllables	24
9850190461	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	25
9850190462	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	26
9850190463	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	27
9850190464	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	28
9850190465	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	29
9850190466	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	30
9850190467	dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	31
9850190468	italian sonnet	A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	32
9850190469	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	33
9850190470	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	34
9850190471	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	35
9850190472	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	36
9850190473	octave	8 line stanza	37
9850190474	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	38
9850190475	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	39
9850190476	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	40
9850190477	paradox	A contradiction or dilemma	41
9850190478	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	42
9850190479	quatrain	A four line stanza	43
9850190480	rhythm	A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions.	44
9850190481	rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	45
9850190482	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	46
9850190483	sestet	6 line stanza	47
9850190484	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	48
9850190485	sonnet	14 line poem	49
9850190486	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	50
9850190487	syllabic verse	Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line.	51
9850190488	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	52
9850190489	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	53
9850190490	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	54
9850190491	tercet	3 line stanza	55
9850190492	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	56
9850190493	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	57
9850190494	understandment	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis	58
9850190495	verse	A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	59
9850190496	vilanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	60
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