AP English Poetry terms Flashcards

8640837202	alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	0
8640837203	allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	1
8640837204	antithesis	A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses.	2
8640837205	apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	3
8640837206	assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	4
8640837208	blank verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter	5
8640837209	cacaphony	Harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite o	6
8640837210	caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	7
8640837211	conceit	A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor	8
8640837212	consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds	9
8640837213	couplet	A pair of lines that end in rhyme	10
8640837214	devices of sound	The techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry.	11
8640837215	diction	Choice of words	12
8640837217	dramatic poem	A narrative poem in which one or more characters speak	13
8640837218	elegy	a sorrowful poem or speech	14
8640837220	enjambment	A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.	15
8640837221	extended metaphor	A metaphor that continues beyond it's initial use, can be developed at great length	16
8640837222	euphony	pleasant, harmonious sound	17
8640837223	eye rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling but does not rhyme because of pronunciation	18
8640837225	figurative language	words or groups of words that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words	19
8640837226	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	20
8640837227	heroic couplet	A pair of rhymed, iambic pentameter lines.	21
8640837228	hyperbole	purposeful exaggeration for effect	22
8640837229	imagery	Language that appeals to the senses.	23
8640837230	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	24
8640837231	internal rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	25
8640837232	lyric poem	A short poem of songlike quality	26
8640837234	metaphor	figure of speech comparing two different things	27
8640837235	meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	28
8640837236	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	29
8640837238	narrative poem	A poem that tells a story	30
8640837239	octave	8 line stanza	31
8640837240	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	32
8640837241	oxymoron	A figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms	33
8640837242	paradox	a contradiction or dilemma	34
8640837243	parallelism	A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures	35
8640837244	paraphrase	(v.) to restate in other words; (n.)a statement that presents a given idea in new language	36
8640837245	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	37
8640837246	poetic foot	a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it.	38
8640837247	pun	a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings	39
8640837248	quatrain	4 line stanza	40
8640837249	refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.	41
8640837250	rhyme	Repetition of sounds at the end of words	42
8640837252	rhythmn	pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written languages	43
8640837253	sarcasm	harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule	44
8640837254	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	45
8640837255	scansion	Analysis of verse into metrical patterns	46
8640837256	sestet	6 line stanza	47
8640837257	simile	A comparison using like or as	48
8640837258	sonnet	14 line poem	49
8640837259	stanza	A group of lines in a poem	50
8640837260	strategy	management of language for a specific purpose	51
8640837261	structure	arrangement of material within a work	52
8640837262	style	mode of expression in language	53
8640837263	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.	54
8640837264	synecdoche	. a figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole. "All hands on deck" is an example.	55
8640837265	syntax	Order words occur	56
8640837266	tercet	3 line stanza	57
8640837268	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	58
8640837269	tone	Attitudes and presuppositions of the author that are revealed by their linguistic choices (diction, syntax, rhetorical devices)	59
8640837270	understatement	a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said	60
8640848774	chiasmus	a figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second. This may involve a repetition of the same words: "Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure"—Byron	61