AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

9886204352	lyric	subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter, which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression. There are three movements of spirit: aspiration, celebration, and lamentations	0
9886214818	narrative	non-dramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter, which relates a story or narrative. There are three movements of spirit in narrative poetry: epic, tragic, and comic	1
9886226980	Sonnet	a rigid 14-line verse form, with variable structure and rhyme-scheme according to type: Shakespearean or Italian	2
9886235901	Ode	elaborate lyric verse which deals seriously with dignified theme	3
9886241829	blank verse	unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme	4
9886246964	free verse	unrhymed lines that do not have a regular meter	5
9886253449	epic	a long dignified narrative poem, which gives the account of a hero important to his nation or race	6
9886260499	dramatic monologue	a lyric poem in which the speaker addresses himself to persons around him; his speech deals with a dramatic moment in his life and manifests his character	7
9886270856	elegy	a poem of lament, meditating on the death of an individual	8
9886274009	ballad	simple, narrative verse which tells a story to be sung or recited; the folk ballad is anonymously handed down, while the literary ballad has a single author	9
9886282745	idyll	lyric poetry describing the life of the shepherd in pastoral, bucolic, idealistic terms	10
9886289721	villanelle	french verse from strictly calculated to appear simple and spontaneous; five tercets and a final quatrain, rhyming aba aba aba aba aba abaa	11
9886299339	light verse	general category of poetry written to entertain, such as lyric poetry, epigrams, and limericks	12
9886312271	haiku	Japanese verse in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, often depicting a delicate image	13
9886318270	limerick	humorous nonsense verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba, a-tetrameter b-trimeter	14
9886326647	iambic	u/	15
9886329102	trochaic	/u	16
9886332070	anapestic	uu/	17
9886332071	dactylic	/uu	18
9886334260	spondaic	//	19
7517997244	amphibrach	foot with unstressed, stressed and unstressed Chi-ca-go	20
7517990486	metric foot	1 ft = 2 beat Iambic u/ Trochaic /u Anapestic uu/ Dactylic /uu Spondaic //	21
7518001602	amphimacer	a foot with stressed, unstressed, stressed at-ti-tude	22
7518006546	catalectic	an extra unaccented syllable at the end of a line after the regular meter ends	23
7518011149	caesura	a pause in the meter of rhythm of a line	24
7518014242	enjambent	the running on of one line of poetry into another without grammatical break	25
7518017776	rhyme	repetition of like sounds at regular intervals, employed in versification, writing of verse	26
7518028834	end rhyme	rhyme occurring at the end of 2 or more lines of verse	27
7518032600	internal rhyme	rhyme contained within a line of verse b/w 2 or more words	28
7518036881	rhyme scheme	pattern of rhymes within a unit of verse, in analysis, each end rhyme sound is represented by a letter (abab)	29
7518042082	masculine rhyme	occurs when the last syllable of a word rhymes with another word	30
7518046211	feminine rhyme	occurs when the last two syllables of a word rhymes with another	31
7518051716	triple rhyme	last 3 syllables of a word or line rhyme	32
7518054599	half rhyme	(slant, approximate, near, or off-rhyme) imperfect, approximate, close rhyme sea, beaks	33
7518061757	exact rhyme	(true/perfect rhyme) sounds following the vowel are exactly the same red/bread	34
7518066061	sight (eye) rhyme	spelling looks alike but they are pronounced differently	35
7518069327	alliteration	repetition at close intervals, of beginning sounds in 2 or more words in a line of verse	36
7518073478	assonance	repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds in 2 or more words	37
7518079561	cacophony	the use of inharmonious (harsh, rough, unmusical) sounds in close conjunction	38
7518083349	consonance	repetition of 2 or more consonant sounds within a line to produce a harmonious effect	39
7518089750	euphony	use of compatible, harmonious sounds to produce a pleasing, melodious effect	40
7518096082	onomatopoeia	use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds	41
7518099677	refrain	repetition of 1 or more phrases or lines at intervals	42
7518102616	allusion	a reference to a mythological, literary or historical person, place, or thing that adds to or emphasizes a theme of work	43
7518110216	antithesis	balancing or contrasting of one term against another	44
7518112204	apostrophe	a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate as if animate	45
7518116892	conceit	very elaborate comparison between unlikely objects. multiple metaphors	46
7518120694	hyperbole	(overstatement) a boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true	47
7518132281	imagery	language that appeals to the senses (visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, tactile, kinesthetic) emotionally evocative	48
7518140432	irony	discrepancy between appearance and reality VERBAL- what he says is different that what he means DRAMATIC- reader knows something the character does not SITUATIONAL- reality differs from anticipated or intended effect	49
7518153757	litote	special form of understatement achieved by saying the opposite of what one means by making an affirmation by stating the fact in the negative double negative	50
7518160837	metaphor	a comparison of generally dissimilar things without the use of "like" or "as" in order to show something new usually concrete & abstract comparisons	51
7518168771	metonymy	substitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it	52
7518173958	oxymoron	a form of paradox that combines a pair of contradictory or incongruous terms into a single expression	53
7518180941	paradox	the juxtaposition of a incongruous or conflicting ideas that reveal a truth or insight	54
7518186858	personification	a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics	55
7518228854	similie	a direct comparison of 2 unlike objects, using like or as	56
7518231301	symbol	a word or image that signifies something other than what is literally represented	57
7518234720	synecdoche	a kind of metaphor in which part of something represents the whole object or idea not a HAIR perished (hair=person)	58
7518242432	inversion	(anastrophe) reversal of the natural/usual word order	59
9886347420	tone	attitude of the speaker toward another character, a place, an idea, or a thing	60
9886351789	theme	author's major idea or meaning; the purpose of the poem. Themes express the unity of human experience, and through poems we see that we are more alike as a human race than different	61
9886358920	mood	related to tone. association with setting. the emotional quality of the setting	62
9886363267	dramatic situation	circumstances of the speaker	63
9886365374	parallelism	the repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure, or that restate a similar idea	64
9886378784	appositives	noun/noun phrase that renames a noun beside it Mr. Meyer, Zeus to some,	65
9886373746	apposition	use of appositives to explain or modify	66
9886386303	ellipsis	omission of a word or words that are implied by context	67
9886389078	chiasmus	cross-wise (or mirror-image) arrangements of elements	68
9886394211	asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses	69
9886397307	antimetabole	repetition in reverse grammatical order eat to live, not live to eat	70
9886400253	polysyndeton	deliberate use of many conjunctions I study physics and math and literature and spanish and history	71
9886412480	repetition	repeated use of the same word or group of words at the beginning and/or ends of successive clauses within poetry	72