AP Literature Poetry Vocabulary Flashcards

14504830219	Alliteration	repetition at the beginning of words	0
14504830220	Allusion	reference to something in literature or history	1
14504830221	Anaphora	repetition of word/phrase at beginning of a clause	2
14504830222	Apostrophe	when someone who is absent is directly addressed as though present	3
14504830223	Assonance	repetition of a vowel sound	4
14504830224	Bard	poet; William Shakespeare	5
14504830225	Blank verse	iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme; most of Shakespeare's plays	6
14504830226	Cacophony	harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds/tones	7
14504830227	Caesura	pause occuring within a line, indicated by punctuation	8
14504830228	Closed form	poem follows specific rules; ex. Sonnet	9
14504830229	Conceit	unconventional, surprising metaphor; often is an extended metaphor; John Donne	10
14504830230	Connotation	cultural/emotional association of a word	11
14504830231	Consonance	repetition of consonant sounds (at the end)	12
14504830232	Couplet	two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme	13
14504830233	Denotation	literal dictionary definition of a word	14
14504830234	Diction	use of words	15
14504830235	End stop	a line that ends with a pause, usually indicated by punctuation	16
14504830236	English/Shakespearean Sonnet	three quatrains and a couplet; abab cdcd efef gg	17
14504830237	Enjambment	running over of a sentence from one line to the next	18
14504830238	Euphemism	polite, indirect expressions for words/phrases considered harsh and impolite	19
14504830239	Euphony	combination of words pleasant to ear predominates	20
14504830240	Feminine rhyme	rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed; ex. Fairy and berry	21
14504830241	Free verse	poetry not in traditional meter but still rhythmical; Walt Whitman	22
14504830242	Heroic couplet	two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines that rhyme	23
14504830243	Hyperbole	over exaggeration for serious or comic effect	24
14504830244	Imagery	representation through literature of sense experiences	25
14504830245	Internal rhyme	rhyme within a line	26
14504830246	Inversion	anastrophe; normal order of words is reversed; ex. Verb then subject	27
14504830247	Irony	contrast between what is expected and what is reality	28
14504830248	Situational Irony	outcome different than expected	29
14504830249	Dramatic Irony	audience knows more than the characters	30
14504830250	Verbal Irony	making a statement while meaning opposite ("well that was nice"); ironic similes (as soft as sandpaper)	31
14504830251	Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet	octave and sestet abbaabba cdcdcd -or- cdecde	32
14504830252	Kenning	compressed form of a metaphor where object is described in a two word phrase; ex. sea= whale road	33
14504830253	Light verse	poetry on playful or trivial themes for the purpose of amusement, often limericks, nonsense poems, or double dactyls; Catullus	34
14504830254	Masculine rhyme	rhyme of stressed and final syllables of words	35
14504830255	Metaphor	comparing words without using like or as	36
14504830256	Meter	repetition of regular rhythmic unit (foot) in a line of poetry	37
14504830257	Metonymy	substitution of a term with one closely associated; ex. Referring to a king as the crown	38
14504830258	Mood	evokes feelings in reader; "atmosphere" of the poem	39
14504830259	Motif	an element (image, idea, theme, situation, or action) that recurs significantly	40
14504830260	Octave	eight lines stanza (or the first eight lines of a sonnet)	41
14504830261	Onomatopoeia	word mimics sound that word makes	42
14504830262	Open form	less structured, does not have to follow certain rules/patterns	43
14504830263	Oxymoron	form of a paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms to form a single expression	44
14504830264	Paradox	situation, action, or feeling that appears to be contradictory at first but upon reflection makes sense	45
14504830265	Pastoral	describes simplicity, charm, and serenity of life of shepherds or country life as a whole	46
14504830266	Personification	human attributes given to an animal, object, or concept	47
14504830267	Pun	a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings; can be serious or humorous	48
14504830268	Quatrain	four line stanza with rhyme	49
14504830269	Refrain	a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines, typically at a fixed position in a poem	50
14504830270	Rhyme scheme	any fixed pattern of rhymes characterizing a whole poem or its stanzas	51
14504830271	Rhythm	recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables: pleasurable and heightens emotion	52
14504830272	Scan	process of measuring metrical verse: mark accented and unaccented syllables; divide into feet; notice pattern and variations	53
14504830273	Sestet	six line stanza (or last six lines of Italian Sonnet)	54
14504830274	Simile	explicit (using like or as) comparison	55
14504830275	Slant rhyme	"imperfect rhyme"; stressed syllables of ending consonants match, but vowels do not; ex. Shape, keep	56
14504830276	Speaker	the person we imagine to be saying the poem	57
14504830277	Spenserian Sonnet	reorganized Shakespearean Sonnet into couplets; abab bcbc cdcd ee	58
14504830278	Stanza	repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhythmic scheme	59
14504830279	Synecdoche	a part is used for the whole; ex. Field hands	60
14504830280	Synesthesia	taking one sensory input and combining it with another; ex. Loud color	61
14504830281	Syntax	ordering of words into patterns/sentences	62
14504830282	Tone	writer or speaker's attitude toward the subject, audience, or him/herself	63
14504830283	Understatement	saying less or with less force what one means	64
14504830284	Verse	a line of metrical writing, a stanza, or a piece written in meter	65