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AP - 5 -Poetry Terms
AP list 5 - poetry terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ballad meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines 1 & 3, three feet in lines 2 & 4 |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentamater - this is the meter of most of Shakespeare's plays |
| cacophony | harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones; may be an unconscious flaw but often used consciously for effect |
| caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line and often greater than a natural pause |
| end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end marked with a period, a comma, a colon, a semicolon, an exclamation point, or a question mark |
| enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next; often used to create a particular effect |
| euphony | pleasant combination of words and sounds - these sounds should be fairly dominant in the poem & usually convey emotion which ties to the theme |
| heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc, etc., with the thought usually completed within the two-line unit |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line rather than at the end |
| lyric poem | any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings; sonnets & odes are common lyric forms |
| octave | an eight-line stanza; most common examples are in Petrarchan (Italian) sonnets |
| poetic foot | group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented (stressed) syllable and one or two unstressed syllables; iambic u/, trochaic /u, anapestic uu/, dactylic /uu, pyrrhic uu, spondaic // |
| quatrain | four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes |
| rhyme royal | a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, often used by Chaucer and other medieval poets |
| rhythm | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables; used to create melody or to evoke heightened emotional responses |
| scansion | a system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number & type of feet per line |
| sestet | a six-line stanza; most commonly seen in Petrarchan (Italian) sonnets |
| sonnet | fourteen-line poem, usually iambic pentameter; most common types are Petrarchan (Italian) and Shakespearean (English) sonnets |
| synecdoche | form of metaphor in which mentioning a part signifies the whole; i.e., foot soldier = infantry; be careful not to confuse with metonymy |
| terza rima | a three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc. |
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