AP Literature Poetry terms Flashcards

6585022220	alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words	0
6585022221	allusion	a brief intentional reference to a historical, mythic or literary thing	1
6585023787	antithesis	balance of parallel word groups conveying opposite ideas	2
6585023788	apostrophe	a direct address to an object, an animal, an idea or an absent person as if they are capable of hearing it	3
6585025584	assonance	repetition of similar nearby vowel sounds	4
6585025585	ballad meter	4 lines in which the 1st and 3rd lines have have 4 stressed syllables and the 2nd and 4th lines have 3 stressed syllables.	5
6585027547	blank verse	Lines that do not rhyme	6
6585027548	cacophony	a harsh mixture of sounds	7
6585028773	conceit	An elaborate or farfetched metaphor or simile	8
6585028774	consonance	repetition of consonant sounds at the ends of words or stressed syllables in order to create near rhyme	9
6585029745	couplet	a 2-lines stanza or poem	10
6585029746	didactic poem	Literature with a moral dilema	11
6585031438	dramatic poem	poetry that reveals character through speech and that consists entirely of dialogue	12
6585031439	elegy	formal lyric poem, usually a meditation on death or some other solemn occasion	13
6585033425	enjambment	poetic sentence which goes into the next line or verse with no end stop in between lines	14
6585033426	extended metaphor	comparison that runs throughout a work	15
6585034644	euphony	a harmonious combination of words pleasing to the ear	16
6585034645	eye rhyme	when words look like they rhyme but really don't	17
6585034646	free verse	Poetry without rhyme or meter	18
6585036151	irony	to say one thing and mean another	19
6585036152	internal rhyme	a rhyme involving a word in the middle of the phrase and at the end	20
6585037648	lyric poem	short, melodic, imaginative poetry	21
6585037649	meter	rhythmically arranged patterns of stressed or unstressed syllables	22
6585040691	metonomy	figure of speech in which a word naming something closely associated with a word is substituted for the word itself (crown for king)	23
6585040692	narrative poem	tells a story	24
6585041907	octave	8 line poem or stanza	25
6585041908	parallelism	use of repeated structures in nearby phrases	26
6585043392	quatrain	4 line stanza	27
6585043393	refrain	one or more lines repeated at intervals	28
6585043394	satire	use of humor to expose people's stupidity	29
6585044937	sestet	6 line poem or stanza	30
6585044938	sonnet	14 line poem having a regular rhythm	31
6585044939	stanza	one of the divisions of a poem. (paragraph)	32
6585046369	synecdoche	form of a metaphor in which a part signifies the whole or vise versa (hand in marriage)	33
6585046370	tercet	3 line poem or stanza that rhymes	34
6585047847	terza rima	an arrangement of triples (aba, cdc)	35
6585047848	understatement	saying something is smaller than it really is	36
6585048897	villanelle	poetic form consisting of 5 tercet's (3 lines each) followed by a quatrain (4 lines)	37