AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

9214533972	Lyric	a short poem expressing thoughts or feelings of a speaker	0
9214537301	Narrative Poem	a poem that tells a story	1
9214537302	Ballad	Traditionally a song that tells a story	2
9214543910	Dramatic Monologue	a poem written as a speech made by a character at some decisive moment	3
9214549023	Didactic Poetry	a kind of poetry intended to teach the reader a moral lesson	4
9214569375	Closed Form	a generic term that describes poetry and some preexisting pattern of meter, rhyme, line, or stanza	5
9214700226	Open Form	verse that has no set formal scheme-no meter	6
9214712341	Free Verse	poetry that organizes its lines without meter	7
9236034834	Tone	The attitude toward a subject conveyed in a literary work.	8
9236811760	Speaker	The narrative voice in a poem that speaks of his or her. situation or feelings.	9
9236866643	Persona	Latin for 'mask'. A fictitious character created by an author to be the speaker of a poem, story or novel.	10
9236868856	Tension	A balance maintained in a poem between opposing forces or elements; a controlled dramatic or dynamic quality.	11
9236871431	Conflict	A struggle between two opposing forces.	12
9236875604	Theme	The central thought of a poem. A poem can sometimes contain multiple themes.	13
9236880005	Ambiguity	A word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning.	14
9236883822	Irony	A literary device in which a discrepancy of meaning is masked beneath the surface of the language. When a writer says one thing but means something quite the opposite.	15
9236888086	Verbal Irony	When the discrepancy is contained in words	16
9236888701	Dramatic Irony	A form of irony that is expressed through a work's structure: an audience's awareness of the situation in which a work's characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters', and the words and actions of the characters therefore take on a different—often contradictory—meaning for the audience than they have for the work's characters.	17
9236897433	Allusion	A brief reference in a text to a person, place, or thing (fictitious or real).	18
9236904088	Paradox	A statement that at first strikes one as self-contradictory, but that on reflection reveals some deeper sense.	19
9236914036	Diction	Word choice or vocabulary.	20
9236916634	Concrete Diction	Involves a highly specific word choice in the naming of something or someone	21
9236921691	Abstract Diction	Contains words that express more general ideas or concepts.	22
9236922772	Nonsense Verse	A form of light verse, usually for children, depicting imaginative characters in amusing situations of fantasy, whimsical in tone and with a rhythmic appeal, often employing fanciful phrases and meaningless made-up words.	23
9236930313	Portmanteau Word	An artificial word that combines parts of other words to express some combination of their qualities.	24
9236942491	Denotation	The literal, dictionary meaning of a word.	25
9236945706	Connotation	An association or additional meaning that a word, image, or phrase may carry, apart from its literal denotation or dictionary definition.	26
9236949469	Etymology	The origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning.	27
9236956010	Colloquial language	The casual or informal but correct language of ordinary native speakers, which may include contractions, slang, and shifts in grammar, vocabulary and diction.	28
9236962836	Dialect	A particular variety of language spoken by an identifiable regional group or social class of persons.	29
9236966142	Archaic language	These words are no longer in everyday use or have lost a particular meaning in current usage but are sometimes used to impart an old-fashioned flavour to historical novels, or in standard conversation or writing just for a humorous effect.	30
9236970940	Pun	A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.	31