AP Literature Poetry Unit Vocabulary Flashcards

13154067672	Couplet	Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.	0
13154071185	Quatrain	A four-line stanza	1
13154076128	Pentameter	A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet	2
13154060683	Tetrameter	Four feet per line	3
13154105465	Euphony	Soft, gentle sounds, easy to articulate	4
13154108181	Cacaphony	Harsh discordance of sound	5
13154115890	Feminine rhyme	Lines rhymed by their final two syllables	6
13154117748	Masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	7
13154140411	Allegory	A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning	8
13154141750	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	9
13154157085	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	10
13154178108	Paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth	11
13154180830	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction	12
13154192584	Verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	13
13154194597	Dramatic irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the speaker or other characters in a poem	14
13154203119	Situational irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	15
13154217537	Iambic	A metrical foot in poetry that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable	16
13154218740	Trochaic	A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable	17
13154220538	Dactylic	Stressed syllable, unstressed syllable, unstressed syllable	18
13154227789	Anapest	Unstressed syllable, unstressed syllable, stressed syllable	19
13154233353	Tone	A writer's attitude towards the subject matter, the reader, or herself or himself	20
13154250043	Stanza	A group of lines in a poem	21
13154250044	Rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	22
13154260668	Continuous form	The form of a poem in which the lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning	23
13154264073	Stanzaic form	The form taken by a poem when it is written in a series of units having the same number of lines and usually other characteristics in common, such as metrical pattern or rhyme scheme	24
13154267397	Fixed form	A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas.	25
13154272389	Structure	The movement of ideas in a poem	26
13154274055	Sonnet	A fourteen-line poem	27
13154275129	English Sonnet (Shakespearean)	A fourteen-line poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet	28
13154278587	Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan)	A fourteen-line poem broken into an octave and a sestet	29
13690009673	Heroic Couplet	A pair of rhyming iambic pentameters	30