AP Poetry Terms Flashcards

6705004998	apostrophe	a figure of speech in which someone absent, dead, or nonhuman is addressed	0
6705004999	connotation	the implied meaning of a word	1
6705006901	denotation	the dictionary definition of a word	2
6705006902	figurative language	language that is not designed to be taken literally	3
6705011262	juxtaposition	two things are placed next to each other in order to create meaning through contrast	4
6705018260	metaphor	a comparison where one thing becomes the other (You ARE the sunshine of my life)	5
6705018261	onomatopoeia	sound effect words	6
6705020398	personification	human traits are given to animals or objects	7
6705020399	rhythm	a wave-like reoccurrence of motion or sound	8
6705022155	simile	a comparison using like or as	9
6705024804	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole	10
6705024805	syntax	word order	11
6705070336	alliteration	repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of words in a line of poetry	12
6705073009	approximate rhyme	words placed in a metrical pattern where a rhyme should exist, but they don't rhyme exactly	13
6705073010	assonance	repetition of vowels sounds in a line of poetry	14
6705075426	blank verse	unrhymed poetry (has meter/doesn't have rhyme)	15
6705075427	consonance	repetition of consonant sound at the end of the word	16
6705075428	couplet	two successive lines of poetry that end in rhyme	17
6705078219	end rhyme	the last syllables in two (or more) lines of poetry rhyme	18
6705078220	end-stopped line	a line of poetry ends with a natural stop or end punctuation	19
6705080877	enjambment	two lines of poetry run together with no natural stop or punctuation	20
6705082583	English sonnet form	3 quatrains and a couplet	21
6705082584	feminine rhyme	rhyme in which both the last and the second to last (accented) syllable rhyme	22
6705086444	free verse	non-metrical verse	23
6705086445	heroic couplet	poems constructed by a sequence of two lines of verse in iambic pentameter	24
6705088692	iamb	one accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable	25
6705276637	iambic meter	a line of poetry composed of iambs	26
6705278752	internal rhyme	when the rhyme occurs within a line of poetry	27
6705278765	masculine rhyme	when the last syllables of two lines of poetry rhyme	28
6705284776	meter	a regularized pattern of accented and unaccented syllables	29
6705284777	perfect rhyme	rhyme in which the sound is identical	30
6705287051	pentameter	five poetic feet in a line of poetry	31
6705293795	quatrain	a four-line stanza	32
6705293796	refrain	a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines written in stanzaic form	33
6705295480	rhyme	words that have the same sound	34
6705296918	rhyme scheme	regularized pattern of rhymes within a work of literature	35
6705296919	stanza	a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout the poem	36
6705298826	syntax	word order	37
6705298827	ballad	a narrative folk song	38
6705300657	elegy	a song of poem that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for someone who has died	39
6705300658	epic	a long poem, in a lofty style, about the exploits of a hero	40
6705302190	lyric	a song-like poem written mainly to express feelings or thoughts	41
6705302191	narrative poem	a poem that tells a story	42
6705304392	ode	a lyric poem of elaborate style and moderate length that praises a person or thing	43
6705305932	sonnet	a 14-line poem, normally in iambic pentameter	44
6758052023	ekphrasis	a poetic representation of a painting or a sculpture in words	45
6758054071	epigram	a short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation	46
6758057379	figure of speech	a way of saying one thing and meaning another	47
6758061008	sentimentality	unmerited or contrived tender feelings - seeks to solicit emotion by over-simplifying or falsifying reality	48
6758068764	foot	a basic unit used in the measurement of verse	49
6758080682	half rhyme (slant, near, oblique, imperfect, off)	seems like rhyme but is really consonance of the final consonants of the words involved	50
6758085956	Italian sonnet (Petrarchan)	an octave and a sestet	51
6758117771	octave	eight-line stanza	52
6758132175	scansion	the process of measuring verse	53
6758135734	sestet	six-line stanza	54