AP poetry terms Flashcards

5842566175	alliteration	the repetition of the same sounds, usually initial consonants	0
5842578920	assonance	repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words	1
5842584553	ballad	a form of narrative poetry that presents a single, dramatic, tragic episode	2
5847176410	blank verse	poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	3
5847181349	cacophony	harsh, clashing sounds	4
5847185150	cadence	the rising and falling rhythm of speech	5
5847202853	caesura	a pause in a line of verse	6
5847206335	connotation	the implied meaning of a word; the idea behind a word	7
5847208763	consonance	the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds	8
5847214721	couplet	two consecutive lines of rhyming poetry	9
5847218321	dactyl	metrical foot of 3 syllables (one accented followed by two unaccented)	10
5847225800	dirge	a funeral song of lamentation	11
5847227418	dramatic monologue	A kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character who is not the poet speaks to a silent audience and reveals the thoughts/mind of the character	12
5848003828	elegy	an elaborately formal lyric poem lamenting the death of a friend or public figure	13
5848013776	end-stopped line	when the end of a line of a verse coincides with the end of a sentence, clause, or independent unit of syntax	14
5848028830	enjambment	opposite of end-stopped line; when the thought or idea presented in one line of poetry spills over into the next without a punctuated pause	15
5848039565	epic	a long, grand narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a hero	16
5848047079	extended metaphor	a metaphor that is sustained for several lines or becomes the controlling image of an entire poem	17
5848054583	foot	the basic unit of rhythmic measurement in a line of poetry	18
5848063252	free verse	poetry that resembles natural speech due to the absence of rhyme and meter	19
5848068159	hexameter	a line containing six feet	20
5848070363	iamb	a metrical foot of 2 syllables (unaccented followed by accented, as in invade)	21
5848082020	image	when words or language in a poem refer to something that can be perceived through one or more of the 5 senses	22
5848089867	imagery	making pictures with words	23
5848091878	in medias res	"the middle of things;" beginning a narrative in the middle of the action in order to involve the reader	24
5848104398	lyric	a usually short, personal poem that expresses the poet's emotions or thoughts rather than telling a story	25
5848282807	meter	the pattern of sound-units in a line of verse	26
5848292510	octave	a stanza of 8 lines OR the first 8 lines in a sonnet	27
5848300839	ode	a lengthy, formal, serious, lyric poem addressed to a person or abstract entity	28
5848313000	pastoral	a poem dealing with shepherds and rural life	29
5848314895	pentameter	a line containing 5 feet	30
5848323515	persona	the assumed identity of fictional "I" assumed by a writer in a lyrical work	31
5848328837	prosody	the study of sound and rhythm in poetry	32
5848331418	quatrain	a four line stanza	33
5848333994	refrain	a line, group of lines, or part of a line repeated either regularly or irregularly in a poem	34
5848342503	end rhyme	when rhyme occurs at the end of lines of poetry	35
5848346496	internal rhyme	rhyme occurs within a line of poetry	36
5848350596	feminine rhyme	two syllable rhyme (ex. fantastic and sarcastic)	37
5848363565	forced rhyme	meaning in the poem suffers because of the stilted nature of the rhyme	38
5848375567	masculine rhyme	one syllable rhyme (ex. fine and vine)	39
5848377767	exact rhyme	identical rhyme between two words (ex. nearly and yearly)	40
5848383524	slant rhyme	inexact rhyme between two words (ex. nearly and Siri)	41
5848393438	eye rhyme	rhyme based on spelling rather than sound (ex. tough and though)	42
5848404442	rhythm	patterned flow of sound in poetry and prose created through sound devices	43
5848409728	scansion	analyzing the meter in lines of poetry by counting and marking the syllables	44
5848415912	sestet	a six line poem or stanza	45
5848425190	sonnet	a 14 line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter	46
5848430083	stanza	a section of a poem	47
5848431717	stress	the emphasis placed on a word or syllable (synonym for accented)	48
5848441532	trochee	a metrical foot consisting of 2 syllables, an accented syllable followed by an unaccented one (ex. fortune)	49
5848448677	villanelle	a lyric poem made up of 5 three line stanzas plus a final stanza of 4 lines	50
5848456062	volta	the Italian term for the turn in argument or mood of a sonnet occurring after the octave in the first line of the sestet	51