AP Lang Glossary #3 Flashcards
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Poetic device
A device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, sentences or lines.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Ex: “Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore”
Alliteration
Are common in poems and can provide rhythm to a text. a “pulse”
Assonance
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
Assonance
Ex: “From the molten-golden notes”
Assonance
Used to create rhythm in a text, Similar to an alliteration.
Consonance
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words.
Consonance
Ex: “Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door”
Consonance
used to bring attention to a particular sound, used in poems
Onomatopoeia
The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes.
Onomatopoeia
Snap, rustle, boom, murmur
Onomatopoeia
To create the effect of a sound within a poem or story.
Internal rhyme
When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line.
Internal rhyme
“To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!”
Internal rhyme
To change the rhythm of the poem
Slant rhyme
When a poet creates a rhyme, but the two words do not rhyme exactly – they are merely similar.
Slant rhyme
“I sat upon a stone, / And found my life has gone.”
Slant rhyme
Used to make poetry and prose sound more cohesive.
End rhyme
When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme.
End rhyme
“Roses are red, violets are blue, / Sugar is sweet, and so are you.”
End rhyme
Used to change the rhythm of the poem
Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of a poem’s end rhymes.
Rhyme Scheme
rhyme scheme of a b a b c d c d:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? a
Thou art more lovely and more temperate. b
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. a
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. b
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines c
And often is his gold complexion dimmed d
And every fair from fair sometime declines c
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed d
Rhyme Scheme
determines rhythm, different depending on the poem
Stressed and unstressed syllables
In every word of more than one syllable, one of the syllables is stressed, or said with more force than the other syllable(s).
Stressed and unstressed syllables
The pronunciation of the word.
Stressed and unstressed syllables
In the name “Nathan,” the first syllable is stressed. In the word “unhappiness,” the second of the four syllables is stressed.
Meter
A regular pattern to the syllables in lines of poetry.
Meter
”She walks in beauty like the night.”
Meter
creates a rhythm and often gives a formality.
Free verse
Poetry that doesn’t have much meter or rhyme.
Free verse
“I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.” -Walt Whitman
Free verse
to convey a poem without a structure.
Iambic pentameter
Poetry that is written in lines of 10 syllables, alternating stressed and unstressed syllables.
Iambic pentameter
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Iambic pentameter
Creates a musical style rhythm
Sonnet
A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter. Usually divided into three quatrains and a couplet.
Sonnet
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.” -Shakespeare
Sonnet
Used to best convey emotion inside a poem.
Polysyndeton
When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions.
Polysyndeton
“I walked the dog, and fed the cat, and milked the cows.”
Polysyndeton
To slow the rhythm of a poem
Pun
When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way.
Pun
“My dog has a fur coat and pants!”
Pun
Used to evoke humor in the reader, a sort of joke
