AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards
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| 11525250057 | Lines | Structure, content, and rhyme | 0 | |
| 11525255384 | Structure | Visual (Stanzas) | 1 | |
| 11525260462 | Analysis | Weight structure and content | 2 | |
| 11525269133 | Rhyme Scheme | Deliberate | 3 | |
| 11525278713 | Couplet | 2 lines bound to each other | 4 | |
| 11525282074 | Tercet/Triplet | 3 lines | 5 | |
| 11525285658 | Quatrain | 4 lines | 6 | |
| 11525285659 | Cinquain | 5 lines | 7 | |
| 11525289139 | Sestet | 6 lines | 8 | |
| 11525291692 | Septet | 7 lines | 9 | |
| 11525299170 | Octet/Octave | 8 lines | 10 | |
| 11525305515 | Syllables | accented/stressed or unaccented/unstressed | 11 | |
| 11525313466 | Meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry and who many times such a pattern is repeated in a line of poetry | 12 | |
| 11525320304 | Foot | a pattern of two or three stressed and unstressed syllables | 13 | |
| 11525328377 | Iamb | foot: U/ | 14 | |
| 11525332164 | Trochee | foot: /U | 15 | |
| 11525334642 | Anapest | foot: UU/ | 16 | |
| 11525338395 | Dactyl | foot: /UU | 17 | |
| 11525342814 | Spondee | foot: // | 18 | |
| 11525345441 | Pyrrhic | foot: UU | 19 | |
| 11525355029 | Monometer | 1 time that the foot repeats in a line of verse | 20 | |
| 11525382437 | Dimeter | 2 times the foot repeats in a line of verse | 21 | |
| 11525394536 | Trimeter | 3 times the foot repeats in a line of verse | 22 | |
| 11525399236 | Tetrameter | 4 times the foot repeats in a line of verse | 23 | |
| 11525402903 | Pentameter | 5 times the foot repeats in a line of verse | 24 | |
| 11525409415 | Hexameter | 6 times the foot repeats in a line of verse | 25 | |
| 11525413374 | Heptameter | 7 times the foot repeats in a line of verse | 26 | |
| 11525415770 | Octometer | 8 times the foot repeats in a line of verse | 27 | |
| 11525418637 | Formula for meter | meter = foot + -ic + # of x ft repeats | 28 | |
| 11525433753 | Scansion | 1. divide by syllable, 2. determine stresses, 3. identify ft, 4. # of x ft repeats, 5. meter = foot + -ic + # of x ft repeats | 29 | |
| 11525446936 | True Rhyme (perfect rhyme) | same sound at the end of the word | 30 | |
| 11525455223 | End rhyme | rhyme at the end of the word/line | 31 | |
| 11525462302 | Masculine rhyme | when the last syllable of one word rhymes with the last syllable of another rhyme | 32 | |
| 11525471732 | Feminine Rhyme | when the last 2 syllables of two words rhyme with each other | 33 | |
| 11525482716 | Triple rhyme (dactylic) | when the last 3 syllables of two words rhyme with each other | 34 | |
| 11525496401 | Near rhyme/slant rhyme/off rhyme | words that almost rhyme but not quite (still works with rhyme scheme) | 35 | |
| 11525504702 | Rhymed verse | has meter, has rhyme scheme | 36 | |
| 11525508094 | Blank verse | has meter, no rhyme scheme (Shakespeare) | 37 | |
| 11525513158 | Free verse | no meter, no rhyme scheme | 38 | |
| 11525524520 | Internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 39 | |
| 11525531652 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds | 40 | |
| 11525531653 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 41 | |
| 11525534680 | Refrain | repetition that occurs at regular intervals (chorus!) | 42 | |
| 11525544326 | Metonymy | something associated with the thing (the Crown/White House) --> useful tool in rhetoric | 43 | |
| 11525551004 | Synechdoche | literally, physically attached to the thing (all hands on deck/check out dem legs) | 44 | |
| 11525568882 | Archetype | understood universally | 45 | |
| 11525568883 | Symbol | must be taught | 46 | |
| 11525571993 | Antithesis | opposing claim/idea | 47 | |
| 11525575098 | Oxymoron | 2 words that are opposites put together to create a new meaning | 48 | |
| 11525585839 | Paradox | 2 statements that are contradictory but happen to be true | 49 | |
| 11525591461 | heroic couplet | two successive rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter | 50 | |
| 11525598234 | terza rima | 3 line stanza with an interwoven rhyme scheme, usually iambic pentameter (10 syllables), dictates length & rhyme of stanza (ABA BCB CDC) | 51 | |
| 11525636016 | Ballad stanza | 4 lines p. stanza w/ rhyme scheme ABCB, 1st 2nd lines -> tetrameter, 2nd 3rd lines -> trimeter (most often iambic) | 52 | |
| 11525614074 | limerick | 5 line nonsense poem with anapestic meter, rhyme scheme AABBA, 1st 2nd 5th lines -> 3 stresses, 3rd 4th lines -> 2 stresses (39 syllables) | 53 | |
| 11525653844 | rime royal | 7 lines p. stanza in iambic pentameter (King James I) | 54 | |
| 11525690454 | attava rima | stanza w/ 8 iambic pentameter lines, rhyme scheme ABABABCC (Italian poets) | 55 | |
| 11525716721 | Spenserian stanza | 9 line stanza w/ 8 iambic pentameter lines followed by an alexandrine (iambic hexameter) (Edmund Spenser) | 56 | |
| 11525733588 | Villanelle | 5 tercets and a quatrain, 1&3 of 1st tercet recur alternately at the end of the other tercets & together as the last 2 lines of the quatrain | 57 |