AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

6495445741	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	0
6495445742	Allusion	an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.	1
6495449139	Assonance	in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ).	2
6495449140	Ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture. Written in quatrains.	3
6495451526	Caesura	(in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line.	4
6495456790	Cosonance	the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity (chiefly as used in prosody).	5
6495456791	Couplet	two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.	6
6495458833	Dramatic Monologue	a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events.	7
6495458834	Elegy	a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead.	8
6495460855	End-stopped lines	a poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit (sentence, clause or phrase); this pause can be expressed in writing as a punctuation mark such as a colon, semi-colon, period or full stop.	9
6495460856	Enjambment	(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	10
6495463856	Free verse	poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.	11
6495463857	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.	12
6495463858	Iamb	a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.	13
6495465492	Imagery	visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.	14
6495465493	Kenning	a conventional poetic phrase used for or in addition to the usual name of a person or thing, especially in Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon verse, as "a wave traveler" for "a boat.".	15
6495465494	Metaphor	a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.	16
6495467552	Meter	a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem.	17
6495467553	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.	18
6495467554	Ode	a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.	19
6495469514	Paradox	a statement that is self contradictory because it often contains two statements that are both true, but in general, cannot both be true at the same time.	20
6495469515	Personification	the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.	21
6495474049	Petrarchan/ Italian Sonnet	a sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns (as cde cde or cdc dcd)	22
6495474050	Quatrain	a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.	23
6495476143	Refrain	a verse, a line, a set, or a group of some lines that appears at the end of stanza, or appears where a poem divides into different sections.	24
6495478831	Rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.	25
6495480569	Slant Rhyme	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.	26
6495488657	Approximate, Masculine Rhyme	when a poet keeps the same vowel sounds, but uses words with different ending consonant sounds. For example, 'grudge' and 'love'. The vowel sounds in these two words are the same, but the 'dg' sound is similar to, but not the exact same as, the 'v' sound.	27
6495490413	Feminine, Internal Rhyme	a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables (e.g., stocking / shocking, glamorous / amorous .).	28
6495493079	Shakespearean Sonnet	The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. Also called Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet.	29
6495493080	Simile	a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ). Uses like or as.	30
6495493081	Sonnet	a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.	31
6495495132	Speaker	the voice behind the poem—the person we imagine to be saying the thing out loud.	32
6495495133	Symbolism	the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.	33
6495497482	Synechdoche	A figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa.	34
6495497483	Synesthesia	refers to 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.	35
6495499334	Terza Rima	an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc., as in Dante's Divine Comedy.	36
6495499335	Tercet, Triplet	A 3-lined stanza.	37
6495501147	Tone	The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader.	38
6495501148	Villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.	39
6495504397	Visual or concrete Poetry	poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices.	40