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English AP Poety
AP Poetry Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds, used to create mood. (the sea, the sea in the darkness calls |
| allusion | reference to someone or something that is known from history, religion. ect. |
| apostrophe | a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent. |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by the different consonant sounds, especially in words that are closed together (the tide rises, the tide falls/ the twilight darkens) |
| ballad | a song or a poem that tells a story, typically a tragic one with a simple steady rhythm |
| blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. (shakspheare, robert frost) |
| cacophony | harsh and discordant sounds in a line of poetry |
| caesura | a pause or break within a line of poetry, indicated by punctuation or phrasing |
| conceit | an elaborate or lengthy metaphor that compares two very different things. (dickinson) |
| conrete poem | a poem where the words are arranged on a page to suggest a visual representation of the subject (e.e cummings) |
| confessional poetry | 20th century movement that uses intimate material from a poet's lifre for the subject of their poetry. (anne sexton, sylvia plath) |
| consonance | repetition of the same or similar final consonant sound on accented syllables sometimes used in place of rhyme. (tick-tock, ping-pong) |
| dramatic monologue | poem where character peaks to one or more listeners, telling some type of story. (t.s eliot, rpbert browning |
| elegy | a lyric poem written in honor of one who has died |
| enjambment | technique involving the running on of a line or stanza |
| epic | long narrative poem, written in heightened language to tell the deeds of a heroic character |
| epigram | a brief witty poe, used for satiric commentary |
| euphony | the pleasant, sonorous presentation of sounds |
| foot | metrical unit of poetry, a pattern of syllables with at least one stressed syllable. (lamb; trochee; anapest; dactyl; spondee; unstressed-stressed; stressed-unstressed; unstressed-unstressed-stressed ; stressed-unstressed-unstressed; stressed-stressed |
| free verse | poetry that does not conform to regular meter or rhye scheme. (carl sandburg) |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry or within consecutive lines. (and son, all the nighttide, i lie lown by the side) |
| lyric poem | a poem that expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker, philosophic |
| meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry 1=monometer 2=dimeter 3=trimeter 4=tetrameter 5=pentameter 6=hexameter 7=heptameter 8=octameter 9=monomeer |
| metonymy | figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely assocated with it. (calling a car "wheels") |
| ode | a lyric poem, usually long, on a serious subject and written in dignified language |
| onomatopoeia | the use of sounds that echo their sense. (buzz, smack, ring, woof) |
| oxymoron | combination of opposite words pr phrases. (sweet sorrow, deafening silence) |
| personification | giving an object or animal human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes |
| stanza | unit of a poem rhyme, meter and length to other units in the poem 1=couplet 2-couplet 3=tercet 4=quatrian 5=cinquain 6=sestet 7=septet 8=ovtave |
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