AP English Poetry Terms 1-35 Flashcards
Apostrophe
When someone or something is addressed as though they are present
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Ballad meter
Four line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four
Blank verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Cacophony
Harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones
Caesura
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
Conceit
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)
Consonance
Repetition of similar consonant sounds
Couplet
Two line stanza
Devices of sound
Techniques of deploying sound of words; esp. in poetry ex: rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia
Didactic poem
Teaches a lesson
Dramatic poem
Employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends
Elegy
Sustained and formal poem telling poet’s thoughts on death/other solemn
End-stopped
Line with a pause at the end
Enjambment
Continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line to the next
