AP Poetic Vocabulary Flashcards

9769353646	pedantic	tending to show off one's learning	0
9769416825	effusive	emotionally unrestrained; gushy	1
9769423197	eclectic	made up of a variety of sources or styles	2
9769468180	prosaic	unimaginative; dull	3
9769472820	satirical	exposing human folly to ridicule	4
9769481652	didactic	intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive	5
9769501777	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	6
9769525557	litotes	ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary	7
9769541539	maudlin	excessively sentimental	8
9769546600	reticent	inclined to keep silent; reserved	9
9769552725	metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	10
9769559443	synechoche	A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	11
9769572566	raucous	unpleasantly loud and harsh	12
9769583625	paradox	an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth	13
9769589263	juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	14
9769601340	figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	15
9769609523	understatement	a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said	16
9769623803	apostrophe	address to an absent or imaginary person	17
9769630139	ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.	18
9769634103	motif	A recurring theme, subject or idea	19
12591103220	Irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	20
12591114431	Caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	21
12591124040	Eye Rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling but does not rhyme because of pronunciation	22
12591131457	Masculine Rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (one stressed syllable)	23
12591219665	Feminine Rhyme	lines rhymed by their final two syllables	24
12591236125	Figure of Speech	An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning.	25
12591249383	Stanza	a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem	26
12591257134	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	27
12591263767	Rhyme	Identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem.	28
12591278827	Enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.	29
12591287378	End-Stopped	a term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation	30
12591297977	Italian Sonnet	a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd	31
12591305392	Shakespearean Sonnet	a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg	32
12591311277	Quatrain	A four line stanza	33
12591314337	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	34
12591320058	Iambic Pentameter	a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable	35
12591325472	Heroic Couplet	two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit (Rhymed in pairs)	36
12591341045	Villanelle	A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern	37
12591356587	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	38
12591362932	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	39
12591368304	Blank Verse	Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	40
12591373986	Free Verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	41
12591377626	Diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	42
12591380802	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	43
12591390207	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	44
12591396592	Sonnet	a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.	45
12591399304	Ballad	A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.	46
12591405198	Aubade	A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn	47
12591409057	Pastoral	A work of literature dealing with rural life	48
12591412870	Sestina	a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi.	49