ap lit poetry terms

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Archetype

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A universal feeling or message that is shared through out many literary works and shown through symbols or themes

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Allegory

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An extended metaphor with an underlying meaning and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas

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Blank Verse

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unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

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Free verse

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unrhymed lines that do not follow rhyme, stanza, or any rules

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Aubade

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A musical tune concerning daybreak/ lovers separating at dawn

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Apostrophe

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Talking to someone or something that is not really there

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Assonance

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rhyming or similarity of vowel sounds between words in a line

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Internal rhyme

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when rhyming words are placed in the middle of lines instead of the end

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Caesura

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A pause in a line of verse

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Connotation

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emotion or association behind a word aside from its literal meaning

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Denotation

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direct dictionary meaning of a word

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pun

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play on words for a humorous or rhetorical effect

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Consonance

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repeated consonant sounds in multiple words of a verse

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Near/off/slant rhyme

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repetition of similar sounds but not exact rhymes

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hyperbole

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overexaggerating of a situation

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understatement

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presenting something less serious than it is

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lyric

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type of poem that expresses intense emotions of one person in first person

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liotes

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using a negative word to express something positive

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ballad

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song or poem telling a story often with music

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paraphrase

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a restatement of text to in another form to clarify meaning

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figurative language

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using words to convey a figurative meaning from the literal one often used in comparisons

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dramatic monologue

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poetic form in which a singular character reveals themselves and the dramatic situation to a silent listener

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end rhyme

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rhyme that happens at the last syllables of verses

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elision

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technique where the writer removes an unstressed syllable and replaces with an apostrophe

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elegy

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a poem of serious reflection mostly about the dead

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colloquialism/jargon/dialect

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a special use of words specifically for a certain geographic place often meaningless to outsiders

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Iambic pentameter

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rhyme scheme where each line contains 10 syllables and syllables are divided into 5 pairs

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Epic

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long narrative poem about a hero’s journey

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Foot

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a unit of meter determined by how many stressed or unstressed syllables there are

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Couplet

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pair of consecutive lines of poetry that complete an idea

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Heroic couplet

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rhyming lines in iambic pentameter often epic

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enjambment

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A run on line in poetry where the idea continues into the line below

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end stopped line

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idea is completed within the line with no enjambment

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tercet, triplet, quatrain, sestet, octave

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amount of lines in stanzas have names based on how many

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style

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the way a writer writes and why

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symbol

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something that stands for something else

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cacaphony

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harsh bad sounds, no natural flow

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euphony

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good harmonizing sounds, natural flow