AP Literature Poetry Terms Flashcards

11115067439	alliteration	the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words.	0
11115067440	allusion	a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work	1
11115067441	anaphora	the deliberate repetition of the first part of a line in subsequent lines	2
11115067442	antithesis	a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas	3
11115067443	apostrophe	a figure of speech in which someone, a abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present	4
11115067444	assonance	the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds	5
11115067445	asyndeton	a rhetorical term for a style which omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses producing a hurried rhythm	6
11115067446	ballad meter	a four-line stanza rhymed abcb in which lines one and three have four feet and lines two and four have three feet	7
11115067447	blank verse	unrhymed iambic pentameter, meter of most of Shakespeare's plays	8
11115067448	cacophony	a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones	9
11115067450	caesura	a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line	10
11115067456	chiasmus	rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect	11
11115067453	conceit	an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things, a brief metaphor	12
11115067449	consonance	the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words	13
11115067451	couplet	a two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same	14
11115067452	devices of sound	rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia used for many reasons, including creating a general effect of pleasant or of discordant sound, to imitate another sound, or to reflect a meaning.	15
11115067471	diction	the use of words in a literary work, can be formal, informal, colloquial or slang	16
11115067479	didactic poem	a poem which is intended primarily to teach a lesson.	17
11115067454	dramatic poem	a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends. The dramatic monologue is an example.	18
11115067485	elegy	a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme	19
11115067488	ellipsis	A linguistically appropriate omission of words that are mutually understood and thus unnecessary	20
11115067491	end-stopped	a line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, an exclamation point, or a question mark are end-stopped lines	21
11115067495	enjambment	the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next	22
11115067497	extended metaphor	an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem	23
11153540669	euphony	a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate	24
12988604242	eye rhyme	rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronunciation	25
12988604243	feminine rhyme	a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed	26
12988604244	figurative language	writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted	27
12988604245	free verse	poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical.	28
12988604246	heroic couplet	two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit.	29
12988604247	hyperbole	a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration.	30
12988604248	imagery	the visual auditory, or tactile images evoked by the words of a literary work or the images that figurative language evokes.	31
12988604249	irony	the contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning. Types of irony are verbal, socratic, dramatic, and situational.	32
12988604250	internal rhyme	rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end. The following lines contain internal	33
12988604251	litote	an intentional use of understatement for ironic effect	34
12988604252	lyric poem	any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings.	35
12988604253	malapropism	the use of an incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word for humorous effect.	36
12988604254	masculine rhyme	rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words.	37
12988604255	metaphor	a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as," "like," or "than."	38
12988604256	meter	the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. The meter of a poem emphasizes the musical quality of the language and often relates directly to the subject matter of the poem.	39
12988604257	menotymy	figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself.	40
12988604258	mixed metaphors	the mingling of one metaphor with another immediately following with which the first is incongruous	41
12988604259	narrative poem	a non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short, like epics or ballads	42
12988604260	non-sequitor	a statement not connected in a logical or clear way to anything that has come before it.	43
12988604261	octave	an eight-line stanza. Most commonly, octave refers to the first division of an Italian sonnet.	44
12988604262	onnomatopoeia	the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning.	45
12988604263	oxymoron	a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. This combination usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness. "wise fool"	46
12988604264	paradox	a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense.	47
12988604265	parallelism	a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry.	48
13658216852	polystndeton	repetition of conjugations	49
13658216853	quatrain	4 line stanza	50
13658216854	refrain	a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem	51
13658216855	scancion	the process of analyzing a poem's meter	52
13658220146	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	53