AP Literature Poetry Terms 1 Flashcards

9317355065	apostrophe	addressing a nonhuman object as if it were present and could reply	0
9317358304	connotation	what a word suggests beyond its basic definition; a word's overtones of meaning	1
9317363204	denotation	the dictionary definition of a word	2
9317366753	ekphrasis	the poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words	3
9317371747	epigram	1) short witty poem expressing a single thought or observation 2) concise, clever, often paradoxical statement	4
9317390156	extended figure	figure of speech developed through a considerable number of lines/whole poem	5
9317395829	figurative language	language that cannot be taken literally	6
9317398532	juxtaposition	positioning opposites next to each other to heighten the contrast	7
9317401160	metaphor	a comparison between two things	8
9317403008	metonymy	a significant aspect/detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience	9
9317410092	onomatopoeia	words that sound like what they mean (boom, click, plop)	10
9317412780	personfication	giving inanimate objects human qualities or characteristics	11
9317420116	rhythm	any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound	12
9317423179	sentimentality	unmerited or contrived tender feeling; seeks to elicit tears	13
9317428596	simile	comparison between two things using like or as	14
9317430378	synecdoche	figure of speech in which the part is used for the whole	15
9317433795	syntax	word organization and order	16
9317436390	alliteration	repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning (or accented syllables) of important words)	17
9317443621	anapest	metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (understand)	18
9317448514	anapestic meter	meter in which the majority of feet are anapests	19
9317453065	approximate rhyme	words in a rhyming pattern that have some sort of sound correspondence but do not rhyme exactly	20
9317462140	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	21
9317464004	blank verse	poetry with meter, but not rhymed (usually iambic pentameter)	22
9317467951	consonance	repetition of consonant sounds	23
9317470237	couplet	two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme	24
9317493331	dactyl	a metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables (merrily)	25
9317500428	dactylic meter	meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls	26
9317502463	end rhyme	rhymes that occur at the ends of lines	27
9317505001	end-stopped line	line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation (opposite of enjambment)	28
9317516535	enjambment	a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the next line (opposite of end-stopped line)	29
9317525469	English/Shakespearean sonnet	three quatrains and one couplet, rhyme pattern ababcdcdefefgg	30
9317532763	feminine rhyme	rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate syllable of the words (picky)	31
9317536520	foot	basic unit used in scansion (measurement of verse); usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables	32
9317544565	free verse	nonmetrical verse; no pattern/rhyme expectation	33
9317547861	half rhyme (slant rhyme)	consonance of the final consonants of the words involved	34
9317553476	heroic couplet	poems constructed in a sequence of two lines of (usually rhyming) verse in iambic pentameter	35
9317559540	iamb	a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable (rehearse)	36