AP Poetry Flashcards

7252328579	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	0
7252328580	foot	unit of meter	1
7252328581	iamb	unstressed stressed pattern	2
7252328582	trochee	stressed unstressed pattern	3
7252328583	anapest	3 syllables - stress on the last	4
7252328584	spondee	two stressed syllables - heartbreak	5
7252328585	dactyl	3 syllables - stress on the first	6
7252328586	pyrrhic	two unstressed syllables	7
7252328587	monometer	one foot line	8
7252328588	dimeter	two foot line	9
7252328589	trimeter	three foot line	10
7252328590	tetrameter	four foot line	11
7252328591	pentameter	five foot line	12
7252328592	hexameter	six foot line	13
7252328593	heptameter	seven foot line	14
7252328594	octometer	eight foot line	15
7252328595	blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	16
7252328596	slant rhyme	A rhyme based on imperfect or incomplete correspondence of end syllable sounds. Synonymous with " imperfect", "off" or "near" rhyme.	17
7252328597	masculine rhyme	rhymes of one syllable	18
7252328598	feminine rhyme	last two syllables rhyme - lawful and awful - more complex	19
7252328599	triple rhyme	last three syllables rhyme - quivering and shivering	20
7252328600	alliteration	Repetition of consonant sounds	21
7252328601	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	22
7252328602	assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	23
7252328603	consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	24
7252328604	refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.	25
7252328605	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	26
7252328606	metaphor	A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared.	27
7252328607	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	28
7252328608	synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).	29
7252328609	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	30
7252328610	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.	31
7252328611	allegory	A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	32
7252328612	overstatement	Exaggeration - "rivers of blood"	33
7252328613	understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	34
7252328614	antithesis	A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced	35
7252328615	apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	36
7252328616	dramatic irony	In this type of irony, facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or a piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work	37
7252328617	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	38
7252328618	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	39
7252328619	paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	40
7252328620	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	41
7252328621	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	42
7252328622	couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	43
7252328623	triplet	three line stanza	44
7252328624	quatrain	A four line stanza	45
7252328625	sestet	6 line stanza	46
7252328626	septet	7 line stanza	47
7252328627	octave	8 line stanza	48
7252328628	heroic couplet	a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style - complete thought	49
7252328629	terza rima	A series of three-line stanzas (tercets) with a defined, "interlocking" rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, etc.). Most are written in iambic pentameter but, whatever the meter, the established meter remains the same throughout the poem. Shorter poems written in this style can end in a couplet.	50
7252328630	limerick	5 line poem, usually funny - usually a -a-b-b-a	51
7252328631	ballad stanza	A four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines.	52
7252328632	rime royal	A stanza consisting of seven lines in Iambic pentameter rhyming a b a b b c c.	53
7252328633	ottava rima	a stanza of eight lines of heroic verse with the rhyme scheme abababcc	54
7252328634	spenserian stanza	a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c	55
7252328635	Petrarchan sonnet (Italian)	octave and sestet - corresponds to division of thought - structure reflects meaning - often the octave will present a situation/idea and the sestet an answer	56
7252328636	Shakespearean sonnet (English)	a poem that is fourteen lines in length. It is divided into three quatrains and a concluding couplet, which has a rhyme scheme a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g. The units marked off by the rhymes and the development of the thought often correspond.	57
7252328637	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.	58
7252328638	elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.	59
7252328639	ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	60
7252328640	lyric	emotional poem - often regular rhyme scheme	61
7252328641	allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities, and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion.	62
7252328642	anachronism	Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period	63
7252328643	anecdote	A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. - THE CHAPSTICK STORY	64
7252328644	antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	65
7252328645	aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	66
7252328646	archetype	A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response	67
7252328647	conceit	A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.	68
7252328648	connotation	All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	69
7252328649	enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.	70
7252328650	end-stopped line	A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation	71
7252328651	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	72
7252328652	narrative poem	a poem that tells a story	73
7252328653	parable	A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson	74
7252328654	parody	A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. It exploits peculiarities of an author's expression (propensity to use too many parentheses, certain favorite words, etc.) Well-written parody offers enlightenment about the original, but poorly written parody offers only ineffectual imitation. nuances of the newer work. Occasionally, however, parodies take on a life of their own and don't require knowledge of the original.	75
7252328655	pastoral	A work of literature dealing with rural life	76
7252328656	pathos	Appeal to emotion	77
7252328657	pun	A play on words	78
7252328658	satire	A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way. It doesn't simply abuse (as in invective) or get personal (as in sarcasm). It targets groups or large concepts rather than individuals.	79