AP Flashcards

8707163824	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.	0
8707171854	Blank Verse	Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.	1
8707177119	Couplet	Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.	2
8707177120	Elegy	Poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.	3
8707203045	Free Verse	Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.	4
8707212593	Prosody	the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry.	5
8707217410	Pun	a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.	6
8707232770	Scansion	the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm.	7
8707243381	Sonnet	a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.	8
8707263777	Antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.	9
8707269090	Cacophony	a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.	10
8707276412	Parallelism	the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way.	11
8707303230	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	12