AP Flashcards

9202473530	ballad	a story told in verse and usually meant to be sung	0
9202473531	literary ballad	a poem that tells a tale without music	1
9202473532	Onomatopoeia	the use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes	2
9202683849	Alliteration	Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words	3
9202683850	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	4
9202683851	euphony	lines that are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth	5
9202683852	cacophony	lines that are discordant and difficult to pronounce	6
9202683853	rhyme	a way of creating sound patterns	7
9202683854	end rhyme	rhyme at the end of a line	8
9202683855	eye rhyme	rhyme based on spelling rather than sound	9
9202683856	internal rhyme	places at least one of the rhymed words within the line	10
9202683857	masculine rhyme	the rhyming of single-syllable words	11
9202683858	feminine rhyme	consists of a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more identical unstressed syllables	12
9202683859	exact rhyme	share the same stressed vowel sounds as well as sharing sounds that follow the vowel	13
9202683860	near rhyme	sounds are almost but not exactly alike	14
9202683861	Consonance	An identical consonant sound preceded by a different vowel sound	15
9202683862	rhythm	the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables	16
9202683863	stress/accent	places more emphasis on one syllable than on another	17
9202683864	meter	a rhythmic pattern of stresses	18
9202683865	prosody	all the metrical elements in a poem	19
9202683866	scansion	measuring the stresses in a line to determine its metrical pattern	20
9202683867	foot	the metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured	21
9202683868	iamb	unstressed, stressed	22
9202683869	trochee	stressed, unstressed	23
9202683870	anapest	unstressed, unstressed, stressed	24
9202683871	dactyl	stressed, unstressed, unstressed	25
9202683872	spondee	stressed, stressed	26
9202683873	rising meter	unstressed to stressed	27
9202683874	falling meter	stressed to unstressed	28
9202683875	line	measured by the number of feet it contains	29
9202683876	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter	30
9202683877	masculine ending	a line that ends with a stressed syllable	31
9202683878	feminine ending	a line that ends with an extra unstressed syllable	32
9202683879	Caesura	a pause within a line	33
9202683880	end-stopped line	when a line has a pause at its end	34
9202683881	Enjambment	running over from one line to another	35
9202683882	form	overall structure or shape of a poem	36
9202683883	fixed form	A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas	37
9202904833	free verse/open form	poems that do not conform to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza	38
9202904834	stanza	a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme	39
9202904835	rhyme scheme	pattern of end rhymes	40
9202904836	Couplet	two lines that usually rhyme and have the same meter	41
9202904837	heroic couplet	couplet written in rhymed iambic pentameter	42
9202904838	Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan)	fourteen line poem broken into an octave and a sestet	43
9202904839	English Sonnet (Shakespearean)	fourteen line poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet	44
9202904840	Villanelle	a nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets and a final quatrain	45
9202904841	ode	a long, lyrical poem, usually serious or meditative in nature	46
9202904842	symbol	something that represents something else	47
9202904843	Allegory	Narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning	48