AP English Poetry terms Flashcards

6536739138	alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	0
6536739139	allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	1
6536739140	antithesis	A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses.	2
6536739141	apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	3
6536739142	assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	4
6536739143	ballad meter	a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four.	5
6536739144	blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	6
6536739145	cacaphony	Harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite o	7
6536739147	conceit	A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor	8
6536739148	consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds	9
6536739149	couplet	A pair of lines that end in rhyme	10
6536739152	didactic poem	a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson	11
6536739153	dramatic poem	A narrative poem in which one or more characters speak	12
6536739154	elegy	a sorrowful poem or speech	13
6536739156	enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.	14
6536739157	extended metaphor	A metaphor that continues beyond it's initial use, can be developed at great length	15
6536739158	euphony	pleasant, harmonious sound	16
6536739159	eye rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling but does not rhyme because of pronunciation	17
6536739162	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	18
6536739166	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	19
6536739167	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	20
6536739168	lyric poem	A short poem of songlike quality	21
6536739171	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	22
6536739172	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	23
6536739174	narrative poem	A poem that tells a story	24
6536739175	octave	8 line stanza	25
6536739179	parallelism	A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures	26
6536739184	quatrain	4 line stanza	27
6536739185	refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.	28
6536739190	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	29
6536739192	sestet	6 line stanza	30
6536739194	sonnet	14 line poem	31
6536739195	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	32
6536739200	synecdoche	. a figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole. "All hands on deck" is an example.	33
6536739202	tercet	3 line stanza	34
6536739203	terza rima	a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.	35
6536739206	understatement	a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said	36
6536739207	villanelle	A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern	37