AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards
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| 3166944381 | Line | A vertical grouping (or lack thereof) of words in a poem | 0 | |
| 3166946984 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | 1 | |
| 3166946985 | Refrain | Repetition of a line or group of lines throughout the poem (think of a song!) | 2 | |
| 3166949702 | Couplet | A group of two lines that usually rhyme and have the same rhythm "Your breath makes me want to puke/Your hygiene I must rebuke" | 3 | |
| 3166955336 | Heroic Couplet | Two lines of rhymed iambic pentameter "I know when you do not bother to read/SparkNotes and Shmoop will just make your grade bleed" | 4 | |
| 3166960888 | Tercet | A group of of rhymed or unrhymed three lines | 5 | |
| 3166962956 | Quatrain | A group of four lines (then sextet, octet/octave, etc) | 6 | |
| 3166965003 | Cinquain | A five line poem in which the syllable count increases in each line from two to four to six to eight then back to two | 7 | |
| 3166969101 | Canto | A long subsection of an epic or longer poem | 8 | |
| 3166972686 | Free Verse | A poem without a set structure of rhythm or rhyme | 9 | |
| 3166974370 | Blank Verse | An unrhymed poem in iambic pentameter | 10 | |
| 3166975922 | Ballad | A poem that tells a story about a specific event (also called a Narrative. Typically passed down orally) | 11 | |
| 3166979948 | Dirge | A brief hymn of lamentation or grief | 12 | |
| 3166981058 | Elegy | A poem that laments the dead, but usually ends in consolation | 13 | |
| 3166982545 | Epic Poem | A long poem concerning the journey of a hero | 14 | |
| 3166984845 | Epigram | A pithy, witty poem | 15 | |
| 3166984846 | Epistle | A poem in the form of a letter. It usually addresses someone close to the writer | 16 | |
| 3166987915 | Lyric Poem | A short poem that was originally meant for music | 17 | |
| 3166989460 | Ode | A long poem about a stately or serious subject | 18 | |
| 3166991435 | Pastoral or Bucolic | A poem that depicts a rural scene | 19 | |
| 3166993449 | Sonnet | A poem of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter | 20 | |
| 3166996355 | Shakespearean/Elizabethan Sonnet | Rhyme of ABABCDCDEFEFGG and divided into three quatrains and a couplet | 21 | |
| 3166999570 | Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet | Rhyme of ABBAABBACDCDCD or ABBAABBACDECDE and divided by an octave and sestet | 22 | |
| 3167004718 | Villanelle | A poem of 19-lines in which the first and third line alternately repeat throughout. It is typically divided into five tercets and one quatrain | 23 | |
| 3167008141 | Stress/Accent | The emphasis given to certain sounds -- usually long vowels or words with high pitch | 24 | |
| 3167012283 | Scansion | Marking the stresses in a line of poetry | 25 | |
| 3167013401 | Rhyme | Words that have similar sounds | 26 | |
| 3167015287 | End Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines of poetry "Cause even our birthdays is cursed days/A born thug in the first place, the worst ways" | 27 | |
| 3167020007 | Internal Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs inside a line of poetry "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,/As someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door" | 28 | |
| 3167025751 | Real Rhyme | Rhyme that is exact "Now ain't nobody tell us it was fair/No love from my daddy 'cause the coward wasn't there" | 29 | |
| 3167030204 | Half or Slant Rhyme | Rhyme that is not exact, but implied "They say I'm wrong and I'm heartless, but all along/I was lookin' for a father he was gone" | 30 | |
| 3167034537 | Feminine Rhyme | A multi-syllable rhyme that ends in an unstressed syllable "Think'st thou to seduce me then with words that have no meaning?" | 31 | |
| 3167038259 | Masculine Rhyme | A rhyme that ends in a stressed syllable "I died and came back/I hustle these lyrics as if it's a game of crack" | 32 | |
| 3167041713 | Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of a rhyme. ABBA or ABAB or ABCAB, etc | 33 | |
| 3167043625 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds at the beginning of a word "suspended from school and scared to go home, I was a fool/With the big boys breaking all the rules" | 34 | |
| 3167048409 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds usually withing the words "As quietness distilled/As Twilight long begun" | 35 | |
| 3167052274 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds within the words "Men sell wedding bells" | 36 | |
| 3167054177 | Caesure | A natural pause in the middle of a line "Now Brenda's gotta make her own way can't go to her family" (notice the pause between way and can't) | 37 | |
| 3167059885 | Enjambment | The continuation of an idea between lines that is read like prose "She tried to hide per pregnancy/From her family who really didn't care see" | 38 | |
| 3167066727 | Punctuation | How the poet uses commas, periods, semicolons, etc to make pauses in sound "We used to be like distant cousins, fightin' playin' dozens" or "So I gotta stay paid no doubt. Day in and day out." | 39 |