AP Lit Poetry Terms Flashcards

7850242670	allusion	a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event person or work	0
7850253134	apostrophe	an address to either an abstract person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage.	1
7850262375	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	2
7850267435	cacophony	a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones	3
7850271318	didactic poem	a poem which is intended to teach a lesson	4
7850276546	enjambment	the continuation from one line to the next with no pause	5
7850286200	eye rhyme/slant rhyme	a half-rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is different when pronounced	6
7850291214	heroic couplet	two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth century verse.	7
7850303012	iambic pentameter	five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables.	8
7850332129	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than the end	9
7850335090	lyric poem	a short poem that presents a single speaker	10
7857500865	metaphysical conceit	a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images in comparison. usually sets up an analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world and sometimes controls the whole structure of the poem.	11
7857520165	mock heroic	imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject. served as a response to the deluge of epic, pastoral, heroic poems that were being written in the 17th century.	12
7857528627	ode	a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style.	13
7857530525	Petrarchan conceit	especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets; hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object.	14
7857538815	refrain	a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza.	15
7857542767	sestet	a six line stanza	16
7857544338	tercet	a stanza of three lines in which each line ends with the same rhyme.	17
7857546342	terza rima	a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc.	18
7857550535	villanelle	a 19 line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain. Line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18, and line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, 19.	19