AP English Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

8596493632	metaphor	a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in "A mighty fortress is our God."	0
8596514516	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team").	1
8596530188	parallelism	a literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction. It can be a word, a phrase, or an entire sentence repeated. Dr. King's famous 'I have a dream' repetition makes the speech compelling and rhythmic, as well as memorable.	2
8596571983	allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	3
8596582365	antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else	4
9191139274	apostrophe	when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in a poem. The speaker could be addressing an abstract concept like love, a person (dead or alive), a place, or even a thing, like the sun or the sea.	5
8596589228	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).	6
8596594694	refrain	a verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a poem, usually after a stanza	7
8596613770	tercet stanza	a stanza composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem	8
8729856628	spondee	A metrical foot, a beat in a poetic line that consists of two accented syllables (stressed/stressed) or DUM-DUM stress pattern. Example: "Cry, cry! Troy burns, or else let Helen go."	9
8729889816	Blank verse	Blank verse is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter.	10
8753363869	doggerel	comic verse composed in irregular rhythm; verse or words that are badly written or expressed.	11
8952383758	diction	word choice	12
8952387586	tone	provides the emotional coloring or a work and is a direct reflection of the speaker's attitude.	13
8952399690	mood	the feeling the reader experiences as a result of the tone	14
8952405947	figurative language	explains or expands an idea by making a direct comparison between unlike things	15
8952410581	syntax	the arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences	16
8952427996	inversion	created by altering word order (e.g. in normal English grammar a subject is followed by a verb and its object). For example: "For this I had deprived myself of rest and health.	17
8952434118	enjambment	when one line ends without a pause and must continue into the next line to complete its meaning; also called a run-on line	18
8952438110	caesura	a pause within a line of poetry	19
8952442226	meter	lines in a poem of a regular pattern of rhythm; meters count the measures of a line in feet	20
8952445065	feet	patterns of stressed or unstressed syllables	21
8952448045	iamb	a poetic foot of two syllables with stress, or accent, on the second, such as the word "again," or the phrase "by far."	22
8952453473	iambic pentameter	a line consisting of five iambic feet. For example: "But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?	23
8953024523	iambic tetrameter	a line consisting of four iambic feet	24
8953033829	sound	the musical quality of a poem	25
8953037437	alliteration	the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words or syllables.	26
8953040091	assonance	the repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words or syllables	27
8953044316	consonance	identical consonant sounds in nearby words that follow different vowel sounds	28
8953052025	onomatopoeia	use of a word that refers to a sound and whose pronunciation mimics that sound	29
8953056045	cadence	similar to rhythm, but focuses on the rise and fall of the voice	30
9051203554	allusion	an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.	31
9051212717	slant rhyme	Half rhyme or imperfect rhyme, sometimes called near-rhyme or lazy rhyme or slant rhyme, is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. Example: Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?	32
9085380431	elegy	a contemplative poem, usually for someone who has died	33
9085381900	lyric	a short poem expressing the personal thoughts or feelings of a first person narrator	34
9085383797	ode	a form of poetry that meditates on or addresses a single object or condition.	35
9085387239	villanelle	a form of poetry with five tercets (three-line stanzas) with a rhyme scheme of aba.	36
9085394682	couplet	a two-line stanza	37
9085394683	quatrain	a four-line stanza	38
9085396164	quintet	a five line stanza	39
9085399059	sestet	a six line stanza	40
9085533753	sextet	a seven line stanza	41
9085535917	octave	an eight line stanza	42