AP Literature: Poetry Terms Flashcards

13746017114	Tone	The author's attitude toward his/her audience and subject	0
13746017115	Theme	The author's major idea or meaning	1
13746017116	Dramatic situation	the circumstances of the speaker	2
13746017117	Lyric poem	subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression	3
13746017118	Narrative poem	Nondramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative	4
13746017119	English Sonnet	Three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter Rhyming abab bcbc efef gg or abba cdcd effe gg	5
13746017120	Italian sonnet	An octave and sestet, between which a break in thought occurs Rhyming scheme is abbaabba cdecde	6
13746017121	Ode	elaborate lyric verse which deals seriously with a dignified theme	7
13746017122	Blank verse	unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter	8
13746017123	Limerick	Humorous nonsense verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba	9
13746017124	Diction	Selection of words in oral or written discourse	10
13746017125	Carpe diem	"Seize the day" mentality often conveyed in the metaphysical poems	11
13746017126	Conceit	Figure of speech (not a metaphor) in which a striking association is made between two seemingly dissimilar things	12
13746017127	Metaphor	A literary comparison used in a subtle sense to show the resemblance between a particular place, person, or event to a universal individual world or incident	13
13746017128	Simile	Direct comparison using like or as	14
13746017129	Archetypes	The use of image and objects to represent the larger and more universal experiences of life	15
13746017130	Elegy	a poem of lament, meditating on the death of an individual	16
13746017131	End rhyme	Rhyme occurring at the end of each line	17
13746017132	Assonance	Repetition of two or more vowel sounds within a line	18
13746017133	Consonance	Repetition of two or more consonant sounds within a line	19
13746017134	Alliteration	The repetition of one or more initial sounds, usually consonants, within a line	20
13746017135	Personification	A figure of speech in which objects and animals are given human characteristics	21
13746017136	Apostrophe	an address to a person or personified object not present	22
13746017137	Metonymy	the substitution of a word which relates to the object or person to be named, in place of the name itself	23
13746017138	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole object or idea	24
13746017139	Hyperbole	Gross exaggeration for effect; overstatement	25
13746017140	Litotes	a form of understatement in which the negative of an antonym is used to achieve emphasis and intensity	26
13746017141	Paradox	A statement which appears self-contradictory, but underlines a basis of truth	27
13746017142	Oxymoron	contradictory terms appear in conjunction	28
13746017143	Allusion	A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	29
13746017144	Onomatopoeia	The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning	30
13746017145	Euphony	the use of compatible, harmonious sounds to produce a pleasing, melodious effect	31
13746017146	Imagery	the use of words to represent things, actions, or ideas by sensory description	32
13746017147	Epic simile	The brief descriptive phrase that is used like a name	33
13746017148	Haiku	Three-lined Japanese verse that consists of 17 syllables	34
13746017149	Internal rhyme	rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within another line	35
13746017150	Metaphysical	A term used to describe the works of 17th century English poets— characteristics include intellectual playfulness, argument, paradoxes, irony, conceits, etc.	36