AP English Poetry Terms 1-35

Question 1

Apostrophe

Answer 1

When someone or something is addressed as though they are present

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 3

Ballad meter

Answer 3

Four line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four

Question 4

Blank verse

Answer 4

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 5

Cacophony

Answer 5

Harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones

Question 6

Caesura

Answer 6

Pause, usually near the middle of the line of a verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than than the normal pause

Question 7

Conceit

Answer 7

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)

Question 8

Consonance

Answer 8

Repetition of similar consonant sounds

Question 9

Couplet

Answer 9

Two line stanza

Question 10

Devices of sound

Answer 10

Techniques of deploying sound of words; esp. in poetry ex: rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia

Question 11

Didactic poem

Answer 11

Teaches a lesson

Question 12

Dramatic poem

Answer 12

Employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends

Question 13

Elegy

Answer 13

Sustained and formal poem telling poet’s thoughts on death/other solemn

Question 14

End-stopped

Answer 14

Line with a pause at the end

Question 15

Enjambment

Answer 15

Continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line to the next

Question 16

Extended metaphor

Answer 16

Analogy/ comparison carried throughout stanza/entire poem

Question 17

Euphony

Answer 17

Opposite of cacophony; words arranged in a way that is pleasant to the ear

Question 18

Eye rhyme

Answer 18

Looks like it would rhyme from spelling but is half rhyme or slant rhyme

Question 19

Feminine rhyme

Answer 19

Rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed; sometimes called double rhyme

Question 20

Free verse

Answer 20

poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical

Question 21

Heroic couplet

Answer 21

Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two line unit

Question 22

Internal rhyme

Answer 22

Rhyme that occurs within a line rather than at the end

Question 23

Lyric poem

Answer 23

Short poem that shows one speaker expressing thoughts/feelings

Question 24

Masculine rhyme

Answer 24

Rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme words

Question 25

Meter

Answer 25

Repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry

Question 26

Metonymy

Answer 26

Substitute ex: crown for monarch

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