AP Literature Flashcards

12714883520	alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	0
12714884656	assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	1
12714886009	consonance	repetition of final consonant sounds	2
12714889604	rhyme	the repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sounds	3
12714895417	masculine rhyme	when the rhyme sounds involve only one syllable	4
12714896571	feminine rhyme	when the rhyme sounds involve two or more syllables	5
12714898727	internal rhyme	when one or more rhyming words are within the line	6
12714901484	end rhyme	when the rhyming words are at the ends of lines	7
12714902701	approximate rhymes	words with any kind of sound similarity	8
12714917204	rhythm	any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound	9
12714919106	stressed	emphasized or accented	10
12714921148	rhetorical stresses	the stressing of words to clarify intentions or feelings	11
12714924305	end-stopped line	A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation	12
12714925358	run-on line	one in which the sense of the line moves on without pause into the next line	13
12714926969	caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	14
12714927961	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	15
12714930465	prose poem	a sort of poetry that depends entirely on ordinary prose rhythms	16
12714935591	meter	identifying characteristic of rhythmic language that we can tap our feet to	17
12714937702	foot	one unit of meter (usually consists of one accented syllable plus one or two unaccented syllables)	18
12714962479	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	19
12714963604	metrical variations	departures from the basic metrical pattern	20
12714965415	substitution	replacing the regular foot with another one	21
12714966989	extrametrical syllables	in metrical verse, extra unaccented syllables added at the beginnings or endings of lines	22
12714968415	truncation	the omission of an unaccented syllable at either end of a line	23
12714969555	scansion	the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm	24
12714971664	expected rhythm	the rhythmic expectation set up by the basic meter of a poem	25
12714972784	heard rhythm	the actual rhythm of a metrical poem as we hear it when it is read naturally	26
12714974264	grammatical or rhetorical pauses	a pause introduced into the reading of a line by a mark of punctuation	27
12714975178	blank verse	Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	28
12714978879	Onomatopoeia	the use of words that sound like what they mean	29
12714981233	phonetic intensives	words whose sound connects with their meaning	30
12714989114	synesthesia	the stimulation of two or more senses simultaneously	31
12715543157	structure	arrangement of ideas, images, thoughts, sentences of a poem	32
12715544764	form	external pattern or shape of a poem	33
12715546044	continuous form	that form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning	34
12715547842	stanzaic form	poet writes in a series of stanzas with same metrical pattern and rhyme scheme	35
12715551576	fixed form	a traditional pattern that applies to a whole poem	36
12715552565	sonnet	a fixed poem of fourteen lines usually iambic pentameter	37
12715554172	Italian sonnet	divided into an octave, which typically rhymes abbaabba, and a sestet, which may have varying rhyme schemes	38
12715555444	English sonnet	a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg	39
12715557884	villanelle	A 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern	40