AP Literature - Poetry Terms Flashcards

13456156515	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	0
13456156516	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love (ex. in Frankenstein when Victor talks to the clouds)	1
13456162604	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity but start with diff consonants (adds to the rhythm, internal rhyme)	2
13456164733	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	3
13456167723	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme	4
13456167724	Epigram	short poem or statement, a witty saying expressing a single thought or observation in a clever or amusing way	5
13456169669	Fixed form	A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas (has a set way of writing it)	6
13456171657	Iambic pentameter	a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable	7
13456175215	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	8
13456175216	Imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	9
13456175240	Metaphysical conceit	An analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world (extended metaphor)	10
13456183111	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	11
13456183112	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	12
13456185341	Pun	A play on words	13
13456185342	Internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	14
13456185343	Rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	15
13456186951	Rhythm	Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables	16
13456188416	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	17
13456188417	Sestet	six line stanza	18
13456190871	Speaker	the voice of the poem	19
13456190872	Stanza	A group of lines in a poem	20
13456192313	Structure	the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or poem	21
13456194381	Synechdoche	Uses a part to explain a whole ex. Lend me an ear.	22
13456196755	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	23
13456202150	Cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	24
13456203697	Euphony	pleasant, harmonious sound	25
13456205842	Foot	the rhythm of a poem based on its stressed and unstressed syllables	26
13456208134	Iamb	Metric foot having two syllables (first unstressed, second stressed)	27
13456211908	Direct metaphor	Directly compares two things with a verb such as "is"	28
13456213512	Indirect metaphor	an implied comparison: ex: They were locked in a dark tomb of a cellar	29
13456217352	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	30
13456217353	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase (ex. jumbo shrimp)	31
13456219652	Hyperbole	exaggeration	32
13456219653	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	33
13456416065	Haiku	3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature	34
13456416066	Sestina	a poem with six seset stanzas (6 lines each) and a final tercet (3 lines), all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing tercet	35
13456436551	Sonnet	a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.	36
13456437799	Villanelle	a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the end of back-to-back lines of the quatrain at the end	37
13456454393	Ballad	A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas	38
13456454394	Elegy	a sad or mournful poem	39
13456454395	Epic	A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	40
13456455821	Lyric	A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world.	41
13456455822	Narrative	Pa poem that tells a story and has a plot	42
13456459519	Ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	43
13456459520	Prose	written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.	44
13459048351	Epithet	descriptive literary device that describes a place, a thing, or a person that helps make its characteristics more prominent than they actually are	45
13459050324	epitaph	phrase or statement in memory of someone who has died; inscription on a tombstone	46
13459052524	epigraph	short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book to suggest a theme	47
13459057140	enjambment	the running over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next without terminal punctuation; the opposite of end-stopped (less singsongy, keeps the thought going)	48