AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

9418773545	Allegory	A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. This often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities.	0
9418778838	Alliteration	The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.	1
9418780956	Anapest	Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one, as in comprehend or intervene.	2
9418783516	Antagonist	A character or force against which a main character struggles.	3
9418785416	Assonance.	The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or line of poetry.	4
9418789152	Aubade	A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn, when he must part from his lover.	5
9418792261	Ballad	A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.	6
9418795864	Blank Verse	A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.	7
9418798659	Caesura	A strong pause within a line of verse.	8
9418801222	Character	An imaginary person that lives in a literary work. They may be major or minor, static or dynamic.	9
9418805166	Characterization	The means by which writers present and reveal character.	10
9418806598	Closed Form	A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern.	11
9418810871	Connotation	The personal and emotional associations called up by a word that go beyond its dictionary meaning.	12
9418814444	Convention	A customary feature of a literary work such as the use of rhyme in a sonnet.	13
9418817128	Couplet	A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.	14
9418820209	Dactyl	A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, as in fluttering or blueberry.	15
9418825091	Denotation	The dictionary meaning of a word.	16
9418826748	Dialogue	The conversation of characters in a literary work.	17
9418826750	Diction	The selection of words in a literary work.	18
9418830074	Dramatic monologue	A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener.	19
9418832166	Elegy	A lyric poem that laments the dead.	20
9418833521	Elision	The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line or poetry.	21
9418835880	Enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.	22
9418839789	Epic	A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero. These typically chronicle the origins of a civilization and embody its central values.	23
9418845362	Epigram	A brief, witty poem, often satirical.	24
9418846975	Falling meter	Poetic meters such as trochaic and dactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.	25
9418849742	Figurative language	A form of language in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.	26
9418852948	Foot	A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.	27
9418857127	Free verse	Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.	28
9418859370	Hyperbole	A figure of speech involving exaggeration.	29
9418861491	Iamb	An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in today.	30
9418863306	Image	A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea.	31
9418865227	Imagery	The pattern of related comparative aspects of language in a literary work.	32
9418867660	Irony	A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen.	33
9418872645	Literal language	A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.	34
9418874983	Lyric poem	A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling.	35
9418877276	Metaphor	A comparison between essentially unlike things without a word such as like or as.	36
9418880016	Meter	The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.	37
9418881385	Metonymy.	A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.	38
9418883834	Monologue	A speech by one character.	39
9418885340	Narrative poem	A poem that tells a story.	40
9418885341	Narrator	The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author.	41
9418888575	Octave	An eight-line unit, which may constitute a stanza or a section of a poem.	42
9418890889	Ode	A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form. Usually a serious poem on an exalted subject.	43
9418894378	Onomatopoeia	The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.	44
9418896213	Open form	A type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern.	45
9418899520	Parody	A humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work.	46
9418900649	Personification	The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities.	47
9418903183	Plot	The unified structure of incidents in a literary work.	48
9418905291	Point of view	The angle of vision from which a story is narrated.	49
9418907008	Protagonist	The main character of a literary work.	50
9418908536	Quatrain	A four-line stanza in a poem.	51
9418908537	Rhetorical question	A question to which an overt answer is not expected.	52
9418910562	Rhyme	The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.	53
9418912537	Rhythm	The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.	54
9418914365	Rising meter	Poetic meters such as iambic and anapestic that move or ascend from an unstressed to a stressed syllable.	55
9418918581	Romance	A type of narrative fiction or poem in which adventure is a central feature and in which an idealized version of reality is presented.	56
9418921317	Satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	57
9418924585	Sestet	A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.	58
9418926754	Sestina	A poem of 39 lines written in iambic pentameter. its six-line stanzas repeat in an intricate and prescribed order the six last words of each line in the opening stanza. After the sixth stanza there is a three-line envoi which uses the six repeating words, two to a line.	59
9418939919	Setting	The time and place of a literary work that establish its context.	60
9418941168	Simile	A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though.	61
9418945072	Soliloquy	A speech in a play which is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage. Often represents the character's thinking aloud.	62
9418949052	Sonnet	A 14-line poem in iambic pentameter.	63
9418950416	Spondee	A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables, such as knick-knack.	64
9418953081	Stanza	A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - with similar or identical patterns of rhyme and meter.	65
9418957660	Structure	The design or form of a literary work.	66
9418959051	Style	The way an author chooses words, arranges them, and develops ideas and actions.	67
9418961543	Subject	What a story or play is about	68
9418962634	Subplot	A subsidiary, subordinate, or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.	69
9418966088	Symbol	An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself.	70
9418967754	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole.	71
9418969304	Syntax	The grammatical order of words in a sentence, line of verse, or dialogue.	72
9418970940	Tempo	The variation in pace in which a scene is acted.	73
9418972069	Tercet	A three-line stanza.	74
9418972070	Theme	The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization.	75
9418976009	Tone	The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work.	76
9418978492	Understatement	A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.	77
9418981190	Villanelle	A 19 line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition. The first and third lines alternate throughout the poem, which is structured in six stanzas - five tercets and a final quatrain.	78