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Ap Lit Poetry Terms
Vocab that should help for Ap Lit poetry analysis
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Apostrophe | Addressing someone absent, dead or imaginary, or an abstraction, as if could reply |
| Assonance | Repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds |
| Ballad | A poem narrating a story in short stanzas |
| Conceit | an extended witty, paradoxical, or startling metaphor |
| Diction | Choice of words for effect |
| Enjambment | a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line |
| Feminine Rhyme | latter two syllables of first wrod rhyme with latter two syllables of second word (ceiling appealing) |
| Free Verse | no fixed meter or rhyme |
| Sonnet | 14 line poem, fixed rhyme scheme, fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line) |
| Alliteration | repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words |
| Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or words at the start of two or more lines |
| Consonance | Repitition at close intervals of final consonant sounds |
| End Rhyme | Rhyme occurs in last syllables of verse |
| Extended Metaphor | a single metaphor is introduced then developed throughout a part or whole of a piece |
| Masculine Rhyme | final syllable of first word rhymes with final syllable of second word (scald, recalled) |
| Ode | a lyric poem usually celebrating a person, place object, or idea |
| Postmodernism | late 20th century style and concept, characterized by ironic self-reference and absurdity |
| Refrain | repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a patten |
| Sestina | a poem of 6, 6 line stanzas and a 3 line envoy, originally w/o rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the evnoy using the 6 words again, 3 in the middle of the lines and three at the end |
| Chorus | a recurring portion of a poem, usually after each verse |
| Echo | repetition of certain sounds or syllables in a verse line |
| Iambic pentameter | ten syllables per line, following an order of unaccented-accented syllables |
| Limerick | Humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines that rhyme (AABBA) |
| Metaphor | implied or direct comparison, by saying one thing IS another thing |
| Meter | regularized rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Neoclassicism | late 18th, early 19th centuries; common ideas included reason, morality, order , and the unchangeable nature of humans; focused on generalities rather than specifics; provide moral instruction for readers |
| Realism | viewing and representing things without artificiality |
| Synecdoche | symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (all hands on board; hands representing crewmen). |
| Villanelle | 19-line poem of fixed form, written in terecets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes |
| Anachromism | something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological tim |
| Closed form | poetry written in a precise or outdated pattern agreeing to the necessary rhyme, meter, line length, line groupings & # of lines in the poetry. EX: haiku, limericks, and sonnets which has consistent #'s of syllables, lines, and customary subject material. |
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