AP Literature Verse (Structure) Part 1 Flashcards

8058350028	Alliteration	The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words	0
8058358252	Anapest	A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable (for example, understand)	1
8058365003	Anapestic meter	A meter in which a majority of the feet are anapests	2
8058375234	Approximate rhyme	A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes	3
8058392093	Assonance	The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words	4
8058404121	Ballad meter	Stanzas formed of quatrains of iambs in which the first and third lines have four stresses (tetrameter) and the second and fourth lines have three stresses (trimeter). Usually, the second and fourth lines rhyme (abcb), although ballad meter is often not followed strictly.	5
8058416610	Blank Verse	Poetry with a meter, but not rhymed, usually in iambic pentameter	6
8058421469	Consonance	The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words	7
8058424421	Couplet	Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme	8
8058428601	Dactyl	A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables	9
8058433937	dactylic meter	a meter in which a majority of the feet are dactyls	10
8058443885	end rhyme	rhymes that occur at the end of lines	11
8058446232	end-stopped line	a line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation - opposite of enjambment	12
8058460786	enjambment	Or run-on line, a line which has no natural speech pause at its end, allowing the sense to flow uninterruptedly into the succeeding line	13
8058482292	Shakespearean sonnet	A sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet; but it is often structured, like the Italian sonnet, into octave and sestet, the principal break in thought coming at the end of the eighth line.	14
8058495318	feminine rhyme	A rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words	15
8058506334	foot	The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse. A foot usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables	16
8058508791	free verse	nonmetrical verse	17
8058514742	half rhyme	consonance on the final consonants of the words involved	18
8058522099	heroic couplet	a poem constructed by a sequence of two lines of verse in iambic pentameter	19
8058823858	iamb	a metrical foot consisting of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable	20