AP Literature: Poetry Terms Flashcards

8468278191	alliteration	repetition of similar consonant sounds	0
8468278192	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
8468278193	apostrophe	an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage	2
8468278194	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds	3
8468278195	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	4
8468278197	cacophony	a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones	5
8468278198	conceit	an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy or extended metaphor and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things.	6
8468278199	Metaphysical Conceit	a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images in comparison used in 17th century an intricate and intellectual device usually sets up an analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world and sometimes controls the whole structure of the poem. For example, in the following stanzas from "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," John Donne compares two lovers' souls to a draftsman's compass: If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home.	7
8468278200	The Petrarchan conceit	* especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets * hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object—e.g., a tomb, the ocean, the sun. Edmund Spenser's Epithalamion, for instance, characterizes the beloved's eyes as being "like sapphires shining bright," with her cheeks "like apples which the sun hath rudded" and her lips "like cherries charming men to bite."	8
8468278202	heroic couplet	Two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth-century verse.	9
8468278205	didactic poem	a poem which is intended to teach a lesson	10
8468278207	elegy	a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead	11
8468278208	enjambment	the continuation from one line to the next with no pause	12
8468278210	extended metaphor	an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem	13
8468278211	eye rhyme/slant rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation	14
8468278213	hyperbole	exaggeration	15
8468278214	iambic pentameter	five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables.	16
8468278216	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	17
8468278217	lyric poem	a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality	18
8468278219	narrative poem	a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples)	19
8468278220	octave	an eight line stanza	20
8468278221	ode	a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style	21
8468278222	onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning	22
8468278223	oxymoron	a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression	23
8468278224	paradox	a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense	24
8468278226	quatrain	four line stanza	25
8468278227	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	26
8468278231	sestet	a six line stanza	27
8468278233	sonnet	a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme	28
8468278238	tercet	a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme	29
8468278239	terza rima	a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc	30
8468278242	understatement	a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is	31
8469009030	Consonance	refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. This repetition often takes place in quick succession, such as in "pitter, patter."	32
8469013160	Synecdoche	part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.	33
8469019048	Synesthesia	a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time.	34
8469022695	Anaphora	the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect	35
8469027860	Pastoral	shepherds and the simplicity of life in the country, where life is free from the corruption of the city	36