Poetry Notes AP literature Flashcards

13408897284	Puritanism	A 16th century era and style adopted by British and American protestants, emphasizing practical Christian piety.	0
13408924036	Epic	A long narrative poem, usually written about a hero.	1
13408927527	Blank Verse	Lines with regular meter, but no rhyme.	2
13408931957	Assonance	Repeating vowel sounds	3
13408937634	Alliteration	Repeating consonant sounds in the first, emphasized syllables	4
13408945911	Euphony	Having a melodious, pleasing sound	5
13408949009	Cacophony	Having a harsh, inharmonious sound	6
13408952373	Dissonance	Basically the same as a cacophony	7
13408955612	Onomatopoeia	A word imitating natural sounds	8
13408964855	Rationalism/Neoclassicism	A 16th-17th century literary era influenced by the Enlightenment, when writers mimicked the "classic style" of Greek and Roman artists, often emphasizing closed form, order and symmetry	9
13408985636	Elegy	A poem that focuses on death and/or mourns and laments the death of someone	10
13408991018	Connotation	The figurative or implied meaning of something; "hidden" meaning	11
13408997261	Denotation	The literal or "on-the-surface" meaning	12
13409001594	Figurative Language	Describing something by comparing it with something else, seen in devices such as similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole	13
13409011130	Conceit	An extended metaphor, a device made famous by the Metaphysical poets of the Elizabethan Era	14
13409069990	Romanticism	A 17th-18th century literary era that rebelled against Enlightenment values by celebrating emotions, the imagination, nature, individualism, and freedom of thought/expression	15
13409085920	Ode	A poem written to praise or honor, often using elevated diction and lyrical, "song-like" techniques	16
13409094819	Stanza	A group of lines in a poem and types, such as : Couplet (2 lines) / Quatrain (4 lines) / Sestet (6 lines) / Octave (8 lines) /	17
13409108635	Attitude	Analyzing tone - the emotions of the speaker of the poem, which is tied closely with diction	18
13409124257	Sonnet	A 14 line poem, with every line written in iambic pentameter	19
13409140136	English/Shakespearean Sonnet	3 quatrains and 1 couplet	20
13409146588	Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet	1 octave and 1 sestet	21
13409151027	Prosody/Scansion	An analysis of poetic meter	22
13409154108	Rhyme	The pattern of stressed syllables, or "meter" of a poem. An individual set of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a "foot"	23
13409164050	Feet-Iambic	Iambic (unstressed, stressed)	24
13409173204	Feet-Trochaic	Trochaic (stressed, unstressed)	25
13409178271	Feet-Dactylic	Dactylic (stressed, unstressed, unstressed)	26
13409181413	Number of feet-Tetrameter	4 feet	27
13409189296	Number of feet- Pentameter	5 feet	28
13409192786	Number of feet- Hexameter	6 feet	29
13409197467	Transcendentalism	A 19th century American social and literary movement that emphasized individualism, liberalism, self-reliance, and communion with nature and the spiritual "sublime"/"Oversoul"	30
13409210998	Lyric	A personal form of poetry that expressed emotions or feelings, often with a musical quality	31
13409217840	Enjambment	Skipping from one line to the next without punctuation	32
13409223487	Caesura	A pause, either in the middle or end of a line in poetry	33
13409227625	Modernism	A 20th century literary era known for its non-traditional experimentation and themes of individualism, relativity, and alienation. It is often viewed as a response to the horrors of the world wars, industrialism, and technology	34
13409247443	Dramatic Monologue	A poem in which the poet assumes the "persona" of a speaker addressing someone, usually in an expression of ideas or emotions	35
13409256644	Rhyme Scheme	The pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines	36
13409263687	Free Verse/Open Form	No rhyme or meter; the opposite of "closed form"	37
13409266954	Slant Rhyme	An "imperfect" rhyme	38
13409271968	Feminine Rhyme	A two syllable rhyme	39
13409275111	Masculine Rhyme	A single syllable rhyme	40
13409279858	Villanelle	A 19-line poem comprised of five tercets and one quatrain, usually with a pattern of two refrains	41
13409285925	Prose	Not poetry, writing with a regular grammatical structure	42
13409290356	Explication	The close analysis of a literary text	43
13409292796	Refrain	A repeated line or group of lines in a poem, like a "chorus" in a song	44