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Ap LIt Poetry
Poetry Terms Ap LIT test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Narrative | type of poem that tells a story |
| Lyric | a poem that deals with emotions/feelings/thoughts |
| aubade | poem about separation of lovers |
| ballad | poem with songlike qualities |
| Dramatic monologue | poem in which definite speaker addresses specific person |
| elegy | poem about death, mourning, also called a dirge |
| ode | poem that praises something |
| pastoral | related to rural life |
| sestina | poem of 6 sestests ending with tercet |
| sonnet and the two types | 14 line poem, 1) English sonnet has 3 quatrains and couplet with abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme 2) Italian is octave + sestet with abba abba cde cde |
| Terza Rima | Series of tercets with defined interlocking rhyme scheme |
| villanelle | 19 line poem with 5 tercets + 1 quatrain |
| 3 important parts to look for in a poem | Speaker, Audience, Subject |
| Imagery | use of figures of speech to create sense appealing images |
| conceit | startling metaphor |
| Irony | Difference between what is and what is expected |
| Paradox | contradiction with some truth |
| litote | affirming a negative(he is not unfriendly) |
| Apostrophe | addressing a dead person |
| pathetic fallacy | somehting in nature that has human emotions |
| synesthesia | using multiples senses to describe (sweet sound) |
| assonance | repitition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repition of consonants |
| anaphora | repitition of words at beginning of consective lines |
| caesura | pause in line of poetry |
| enjambment | continutation of one line of poem into the next |
| stantza | section of poem |
| Free Verse | poem free of regular meter and thyme |
| blank verse | lines in unhyrmed iambic pantameter |
| rhyme | repitition of like sounds |
| masculine rhyme | repition of same sound on accented syllable (forlorn/torn) |
| heroic couplet | couplets ending in masculine rhyme |
| feminine rhyme | repition of same sound at lest un accented syllable |
| off rhyme/slant rhyme/near rhyme | close but not exact rhyme |
| internal rhyme | occurs wihthin a line |
| initial rhyme | occurs at beginning of line |
| rhyme scheme | representation of the pattern of rhyme in a poem expresses with the use of the alphabet |
| meter | the patterened reptition of stresses and unstreses syllables |
| scansion | analysis of meter of a poem |
| iamb | 1 unaccented + 1 accented syllable (irene) |
| trochee | 1 accented + 1 unaccented (Tanya) |
| spondee | 2 accented syllables (Sue Ann) |
| Anapest | 2 unaccented + 1 accented (Antoinette) |
| Dactyl | 1 accented + 2 unaccented (Deborah) |
| Feet | building block of the metrical pattern of a poem |
| Monometer | 1 foot |
| Dimeter | 2 feet |
| Trimeter | 3 feet |
| tetrameter | 4 feet |
| semi colon | joining of 2 or more simialr thoughts |
| colon | designates importance of what is to follow |
| dash | off sets for emphasis |
| ellispsis | pasue or ommision |
| Start secion on literary Movements | |
| From Homer(characteristics) | narrative poetry and epic adventures |
| English Rennaissance(years, poets, characteristics) | 1500-1600; Shakespeare, marlowe, johnson, sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon; sonnets, lyric, pastoral, love, religion popular |
| Metaphysical Poets (years, poets and characteristics) | 1630-1700: John Donne, Andew Marvell, John Milton, George Herbert; philsophical, romantic love, irony, conecits, paradox |
| Romantic Period(years poets and characteristics) | 1750-1850; Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wiliiam Blake; poetry much more popular, natural world, odes, ballads, pastoral |
| later romantic (years, and name poets) | 1750-1850;elixabeth barrett browning, robert browning, aldred, lord tennyson |
| Romantic Period (US) Transcendentalism (years, poets and characteristics) | 1750-1850;ralph waldo emerson, edgar allen poe, henry longfellow, walt whitman, Henry david thoreau, emily dickinson; phiosophy, human soul, objects have universal dimension |
| Realism/Naturalism (years) | 1750-1850 |
| Modern Period(years, poets and characteristics) | 1900-1945: William Carlos williams, ee cummings, marianne moore, TS Eliot, robert frost, carl sanburg, ezra pound, wallace stevens; deals with chaotic world, society, physcholigical exploration, lots free verse |
| Harlem Renaissance(years/location, poets and characteristics) | 1920s NY; Langston Hughes, paul dubar, WEB Dubois; African American voice in arts |
| Present Post Modernism (years, poets and characteristics) | 1945: Robert Lowell, gwendolyn brooks, sylvia plath, anne secton, adrienne rich, ted hughs, richard wilbur; all of modernism characteristics +pop culture |
| The Beats(years, poets and characteristics) | 1950-1960; allen ginsberg, gary snyder, lawrence ferlinghetti; improv style, jazz like, experimental |
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