AP Literature: Poetry Terms Flashcards

9441598803	alliteration	repetition of similar consonant sounds	0
9441598804	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	1
9441598805	antithesis	a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas	2
9441598806	apostrophe	an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage	3
9441598807	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds	4
9441598808	ballad	a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.	5
9441598810	cacophony	a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones	6
9441598811	caesura	a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause	7
9441598812	conceit	an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy or extended metaphor and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things.	8
9441598813	couplet	2 consecutive rhyming lines	9
9441598814	diction	author/poet's word choice	10
9441598815	didactic poem	a poem which is intended to teach a lesson	11
9441598816	dramatic poem	a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element of dramatic techniques (think theater drama)	12
9441598817	elegy	a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead	13
9441598818	end stopped	a line with a pause at the end	14
9441598819	enjambment	the continuation from one line to the next with no pause	15
9441598820	epic poem	a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero	16
9441598821	extended metaphor	an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem	17
9441598822	eye rhyme/slant rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation	18
9441598823	free verse	poetry which is not written in traditional meter or rhyme	19
9441598824	heroic couplet	two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter (ten syllables, unstressed/stressed)	20
9441598825	hyperbole	exaggeration	21
9441598826	imagery	anything that appeals to at least one of the five senses,	22
9441598827	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end	23
9441598828	lyric poem	a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality	24
9441598829	metaphor	a direct comparison	25
9441598830	metonymy	a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself	26
9441598831	narrative poem	a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples)	27
9441598832	octave	an eight line stanza	28
9441598833	ode	a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style	29
9441598834	onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning	30
9441598835	oxymoron	a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression	31
9441598836	paradox	a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense	32
9441598837	parallelism	similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry	33
9441598838	personification	giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics	34
9441598839	quatrain	four line stanza	35
9441598840	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	36
9441598841	rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry	37
9441598842	rhythm	the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllable	38
9441598843	rhyme scheme	the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.	39
9441598844	sestet	a six line stanza	40
9441598845	simile	a comparison of 2 seemingly unlike things using like, as or than	41
9441598846	sonnet	a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme	42
9441598847	speaker	the voice of the poem, not necessarily the poet	43
9441598848	stanza	a group of lines in a poem	44
9441598849	structure	the arrangement of materials within a work	45
9441598850	symbol	something that represents something else	46
9441598851	synecdoche	a form of metaphor in which mentioning a part signifies the whole	47
9441598852	syntax	the ordering of words into patterns or sentences, sentence structure	48
9441598853	tercet	a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme	49
9441598854	terza rima	a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc	50
9441598855	theme	main thought expressed by a work	51
9441598856	tone	the author's attitude toward the subject	52
9441598857	understatement	a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is	53
9441598858	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.	54
9441598859	meter	stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem	55