AP Literature Terminology 12/12 Flashcards
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| 8377851646 | Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line. |  | 0 |
| 8377881408 | Epistrophe | the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences |  | 1 |
| 8377896267 | Anapestic | A foot in poetry with two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. |  | 2 |
| 8377921947 | Dactylic | stressed, unstressed, unstressed |  | 3 |
| 8377926439 | Spondaic | Two stressed syllables |  | 4 |
| 8377939521 | Conceit | A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor |  | 5 |
| 8377949332 | Terza Rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. |  | 6 |
| 8377949333 | Heroic Couplet | a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style |  | 7 |
| 8377956843 | Lamb | Young sheep |  | 8 |
| 8377963495 | Sestina | a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet |  | 9 |
| 8377984887 | 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. |  | 10 |
| 8377984888 | Free Verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |  | 11 |