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AP Poetry

Terms from AP Poetry Unit

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Alliteration repetition of sounds, usually the first letters of successive words, or words that are close together. Alliteration usually applies only to consonants.
Assonance repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
Ballad originally a song which tells a story, often involving dialogue. Characteristically, the storyteller's own feelings are not expressed.
Caesura strong pause in a line of verse, usually appearing in the middle of a line and marked with a comma, semi-colon, or a full stop.
Couplet pair of rhymed lines, often used as a way of rounding off a sonnet; hence the term ‘closing couplet’.
Diction writer's choice of words. Might be described, for instance, as formal or informal, elevated or colloquial.
Elegy poem of loss, usually mourning the death of a public figure, or someone close to the poet.
Ellipsis omission of words from a sentence to achieve brevity and compression. Enjambment
Epic a long narrative poem dealing with events on a grand scale, often with a hero above average in qualities and exploits.
Epigram witty, condensed expression.
Foot a unit of metre with a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. In the examples that follow, a stressed syllable is indicated by ‘/’, and an unstressed syllable by ‘x’
Heroic couplet iambic pentameter lines rhyming in pairs, most commonly used for satiric or didactic poetry, and particularly favoured in the eighteenth century.
Iambic pentameter a line consisting of five iambs.
Imagery special use of language in a way that evokes sense impressions (usually visual).
Metre measurement of a line of poetry, including its length and its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Octave group of eight lines of poetry, often forming the first part of a sonnet.
Ode a poem on a serious subject, usually written in an elevated formal style; often written to commemorate public events.
Onomatopoeia a word that seems to imitate the sound or sounds associated with the object or action, for example, ‘cuckoo’.
Ottava rima a poem in eight-line stanzas, rhyming a b a b a b c c.
Poetic inversion reversing the order of normal speech in order to make the words fit a particular rhythm, or rhyme, or both.
Quatrain group of four lines of poetry, usually rhymed.
Refrain a line or phrase repeated throughout a poem, sometimes with variations, often at the end of each stanza.
Sestet group of six lines of poetry, often forming the second part of a sonnet.
Sonnet fourteen iambic pentameter lines with varying rhyme schemes.
Tercet group of three lines in poetry, sometimes referred to as a triplet.
Turn distinctive movement of change in mood or thought or feeling.
Villanelle an intricate French verse form with some lines repeated, and only two rhyme sounds throughout the five three-line stanzas and the final four-line stanza.
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