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AP Poetry Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds |
| Allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work |
| Antithesis | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words |
| Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone (usually |
| Assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. |
| Cacophony | a harsh |
| Caesura | a pause |
| Consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words. |
| Diction | the use of words in a literary work. |
| Formal-diction | the level of usage common in serious books and formal discourse |
| Informal-diction | the level of usage found in the relaxed but polite conversation of cultivated people |
| colloquial-diction | the everyday usage of a group |
| slang | a group of newly coined words which are not acceptable for formal usage as yet |
| end-stopped | a line with a period |
| enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next. |
| extended-metaphor | an implied analogy |
| eye-rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling |
| free | verse poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical. |
| hyperbole | a deliberate |
| imagery | the images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work. |
| irony | the contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning. |
| internal-rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line |
| metaphor | a figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like "as |
| meter | the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. |
| metonymy | a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself. |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning. |
| oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. |
| paradox | a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense. |
| personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics. |
| pun | a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. |
| refrain | a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem |
| rhyme | close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse. |
| Rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| simile | a directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects |
| stanza | usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme. |
| structure | the arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of a work. |
| style | the mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author. |
| symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else. |
| Syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences. |
| theme | the main thought expressed by a work. |
| tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning. |
| understatement | the opposite of hyperbole. It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is. |
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