AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

6310426677	Allegory	A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal some hidden meaning- typically a moral or political one.	0
6310439909	Heroic Couplet	A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters much used by Chaucer + poets of the 17-18 centuries.	1
6310447173	Cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of inharmonous words.	2
6310456817	Imagery	Descriptive or figurative language, especially in literary works (visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, kinesthetic, and organic).	3
6310473961	Meter	The basic rhythmic structure of a verse of lines in a verse, like Shakespears use of iambic pentameters in sonnets.	4
6310486919	Elegy	A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.	5
6310491661	Alliteration	The occurence of the same letter or a sound at the beginning of adjacent of closely connected words.	6
6310501948	Caesure	A pause near the middle of a line. Any interruption or break.	7
6310506971	Metaphor	A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applied.	8
6310517980	End-Stop Line	When a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation/punctuation mark. Each line is its own phrase/unit of syntax. So when read, you will naturally stop.	9
6310537486	Personification	The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to something nonhuman or the rep. of an abstract quality in human form.	10
6310548499	Diction	The choice of words and phrases in a speech or writing.	11
6310552830	Allusion	A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political signifigance (NOT DETAILED)	12
6310607911	Complaint	Also called a plaint; a formerly popular variety of poem that laments or protests unrequited love or of personal misfortune, misery, or injustice.	13
6310619603	Enjamblement	The running on of a sense or concept from one couplet or line to the next w/out a major pause or syntactical break.	14
6310629883	Figurative Language	Using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful (metaphors, similies, and allusions go beyond the literal meanings of the words to give the readers new insights).	15
6310647447	Onometopoeia	A word which imitates the natural sound of a thing (a sound effect that mimics the described thing - expressive and interestinG.	16
6310665965	Tercet	A set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme w/ an adjacent tercet.	17
6310711271	Analogy	A comparison between 2 things, typically for the purpose of explination or clarification.	18
6310720130	Conceit	A fanciful expression in writing or speech; elaborate metaphor making unusual/unlikely comparisons between 2 things that often extends throught a piece.	19
6310744371	Epic	A long poem, typically derived from ancient/oral tradition, narrating the deeds + adventures of heroic or legendary figures or history or narrative.	20
6310757108	Iambic Pentameter	A line of verse w/five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.	21
6310780847	Inversion	A rhetorical device in which the writers play with the normal position of words, phrases, and clauses in order to create differently arraged sentences, but which still suggest a similar meaning.	22
6310797313	Synecdoche	A figure of comparison in which a word standing for part of something is used for the whole of that thing of vice versa.	23
6310852274	Satire	The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, in politics or other contemporary topical issues.	24
6310862806	Couplet	Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme that form a unit.	25
6310867052	Euphony	The quality of being pleasing to the ear, through a hermnious combination of words.	26
6310872405	Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, abstract idea, or a thing.	27
6310879189	Dramatic Irony	The full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience although unknown to the character.	28
6310891111	Situational Irony	A state of affairs or an event that seem deliberately contracdory to what one expects and if often amusing as a result.	29
6310913744	Verbal Irony	Using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or empathatic effect... To express meaning.	30
6310922275	Mood	Envokes certian feeling or vibes in readers through words and description; the "atmosphere" of a literary piece.	31
6310932215	Hyperbole	An obvious/intentional exaggeration; an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally.	32
6310937814	Simile	A figure of speech in which 2 unlike things are explicitly compared.	33
6310946454	Blank Verse	a verse without whyme, espically that which uses iambic pentameter.	34
6310954157	Lyric Poetry	A type of emotional, song like poetry; distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry.	35
6310960614	Juxtaposition	A literary technique in which 2 or more ideas, places, characters are placed side by side for the purpose of developing comparisions and contrasts.	36
6310972147	Refrain	A verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem.	37
6310977429	Assonance	Repetition of the sound of a vowel or a diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables close enough the each other to be distinguishable.	38
6310988707	Consonance	The reccurence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity.	39
6310995077	Free Verse	When a poem doesn't conform to he limitations of regular meter or rhyme w/ fixed forms.	40
6311001508	Speaker	The narrative voice in a poem that speaks his or her feelings in the situation.	41
6311010965	Point Of View	A particular attitude or way of considering a matter.	42
6311013790	Octet	A verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentamater or of hendcasyllables.	43
6311021424	Ballad	Poem narrating a story alternating between iambic tetermeter and iambic trimeter, often to music; four line stanzas.	44
6311030552	Denotation	The literal meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word may suggest.	45
6311035626	Connotation	An idea or feeling that a word envokes in adition to its literal/actual meaning.	46
6311043595	Sestet	The last six lines of a sonnet.	47
6311046465	Narrative Poetry	Poetry that tells a story, often making use of character and narrative voices, ususally in metered verse. Has story elements to it.	48
6311056511	Quatrain	A stanza of four lines, many having alternating rhymes.	49
6311059175	Anthropomorphism	Asserting human traits, ambitions, emotions, or entire behavior to animals, non-human beings, natural phenemoa or objects (more developed than personification).	50
6311070646	Metonymy	Using the name of an object/concept in place of a different word or concept it relates to (what the thing represents).	51
6311078462	Repitition	Repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas. Emphasises a feeling, idea, creates rhythm, and/or develops a sense of urgency.	52
6311088016	Symbol	Use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from the literal meaning.	53