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English AP Terms
Poetry and Literature
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stanza | a grouping of three or more lines with the same meter/rhyme scheme/rythym |
| Couplet | two lines that form a unit due to rythym or rhyme scheme |
| Heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit |
| sonnet | 14 lines of iambic penameter |
| shakesperean sonnet | 3 quatrains and a heroic couplet |
| sonnet | two units; first presents theme, while second resolves problem |
| shift | turn in a sonnet |
| blank verse | unrhymed lines, defined by meter, iambic pentameter is most common |
| free verse | no specific pattern of rhyme or meter |
| caesura | pause or interruption in a line of verse (used for effect) |
| enjammed line | line that does not end with a grammatical break |
| end stopped line | end of line with the end of grammatical unit, line ends with punctuation |
| rhyme | words have simliar sounds |
| true rhyme | repition of similar vowel andconsonat sounds |
| assonance | similar vowel sounds |
| consonance | repition of similar consonat sounds |
| narrative poetry | tells a story |
| denotation | dictionary defenition of a word |
| connotation | emotional implications of a word as oppose to its exact meaning EX. heart-organ or life |
| imagery | detailed sensory descriptions |
| metaphor | comparison between two unlike thins |
| simile | comparison using "like" or "as" |
| allusion | referenceto somethin outside the text |
| alliteration | repeated consonat sound at the beginnngs of words |
| symbol | person,place,thing,or event that stands for itself and something more |
| metonomy | substitues a name or thin for somethin with which it is closely associatedEX; white house referrin to government |
| synecdoche | subsitutes for part of the whole EX; announced today he's hanging up his spikes |
| personification | giving human qualities to inanmitate or non human objectsEX; the frail deeds might have danced |
| apostrophe | addressing something inanimate, nonhuman, or absentEX; "Exult O shores,and ring O bells!" |
| Rhyme scheme | patter of rhymed words at the end of lines |
| external rhyme | rhymed words appear at the ends of lines in a poem |
| internal rhyme | rhymes within the lines of a poema device to link, add emphasis, or create rythym and music |
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