AP English Poetry Terms Flashcards

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alliteration

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the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words

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allusion

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a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person or work

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antithesis

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a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. Balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness.

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apostrophe

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figure of speech in which someone, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present

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assonance

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the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds

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ballad meter

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

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blank verse

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unrhymed iambic pentameter

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cacophony

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a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones

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caesura

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

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conceit

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an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things. May be a brief metaphor or the entire poem

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consonance

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the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words. Refers to words in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowels that precede them are different.

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diction

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use of words in a literary work; may be described as formal, informal, colloquial, or slang

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didactic poem

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intended primarily to teach a lesson

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dramatic poem

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

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elegy

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a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet’s meditations upon death or another solemn theme

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end-stopped

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a line with a pause at the end (comma, period, colon, semi-colon)

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enjambment

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the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next

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extended metaphor

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an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem

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eye/slant rhyme

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looks like and feels like it should rhyme but it doesn’t

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feminine rhyme

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a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed

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internal rhyme

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rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end

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metonymy

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the substitution of a term naming an object. An object for the whole. Such as calling a king the crown.

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Oxymoron

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form of paradox that combines. a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness

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paradox

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situation or action or feelings that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least make sense

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synecdoche

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form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole. “field hands” for manual laborers

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syntax

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the ordering of words into patterns or sentences