AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

3374261388	half/slant rhyme	assonance or consonance used in place of a rhyme within a rhyme scheme	0
3374269504	cinquain	a stanza of five lines or a poetic form which is five lines long	1
3374271200	enjambment	a technique of continuing a single syntactical structure over two lines or stanzas	2
3374278713	end stopped line	a line of poetry ending in punctuation	3
3374280527	ode	a formal poem which celebrates or elevates a noun	4
3374285242	quatrain	stanza of four lines	5
3374289612	rhyme	repetition of the ending sounds of words	6
3374290993	masculine rhyme	1 syllable rhyme	7
3374292493	feminine rhyme	2+ syllable rhyme	8
3374293613	consonance	repetition of consonant sounds with different corresponding vowel sounds	9
3374299093	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds with different corresponding consonant sounds	10
3374305175	allusion	reference to a body of knowledge outside of the literature	11
3374306739	free verse	a poem without a prescribes metrical or rhyme scheme	12
3374310690	allegory	a story in which the characters and events are representative of human qualities, ideas, and institutions	13
3374313964	everyman	stereotypical person who represents the experience of all	14
3374313965	in media res	start a story with action rather than exposition or at the chronological beginning	15
3374320899	conceit	a clever and surprising comparison	16
3374381351	connotation	the associated meanings of a word. in poetic interpretation it can be all things nonliteral	17
3374398230	stanza	a group of lines which belong together	18
3374405990	controlling image	repetition to highlight a theme; motif	19
3374408634	couplet	a stanza of two lines	20
3374409717	dirge	funeral poem or lament	21
3374414035	stress	the sounds of poetry which are said louder, longer, or higher than surrounding sounds	22
3374417681	dissonance	the arrangement of words to create an unpleasant sound	23
3374421236	dramatic monoglogue	a speech by one speaker in poetic form	24
3374427667	elegy	poem which memorializes a specific person	25
3374430559	volta	turn of topic within an Italian sonnet, occurs between octave and sestet	26
3374433508	persona	the character qualities which define the speaker or narrator	27
3374435951	meter	pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry	28
3376513375	iamb	a foot composed of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable	29
3376525212	foot	basic unit of meter. a stressed syllable with accompanying unstressed syllable	30
3376531098	pentameter	a line composed of five feet	31
3376531962	trochee	a foot composed of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable	32
3376533931	spondee	a foot composed of two stressed syllables	33
3376535134	anapest	unstressed unstressed stressed	34
3376536600	dactyl	stressed unstressed unstressed	35
3376538007	alliteration	repetition of beginning sounds of words	36
3376539523	blank verse	unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter	37
3376540637	cacaphony	the arrangement of sounds within poetry to create a harsh or jarring effect	38
3376545394	caesura	a pause in meter for dramatic effect or to mimic natural speech	39
3376546689	epic	a lengthy poem about the deeds of heroes	40
3376548620	scansion	the act of reading lines of poetry to determine meter	41
3376554064	euphony	the arrangement of sounds in poetry to create a pleasing effect	42
3376557354	free verse	a poem without prescribed metrical or rhyme schemes	43
3376560072	image	evocation of one or more of the five senses	44
3376561779	lyric	a short poem which represents thoughtful meditation of a single speaker (first person)	45
3376565013	sestet	stanza of six lines	46
3376567922	octave	stanza of eight lines	47
3376568923	refrain	lines which are repeated periodically within a poem	48
3376569892	end rhyme	rhyming at the end of lines	49
3376571007	internal rhyme	rhyming within or between the middle of lines	50