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AP Lit -Vocab Quiz 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| stanza | a group of lines within a poem, usually separated by a blank line, that can be considered a single unit of thought |
| elegy | a poem that expresses loss and lament, often for someone who has died |
| lyric poem | type of poetry that expresses personal emotions, thoughts, and feelings of the poet in a musical and emotional way. It often focuses on individual experiences and can have various forms such as sonnets or odes. |
| ode | a type of poem, generally written to address and praise a subject |
| dirge | a poem or song that expresses grief and lamentation, usually in commemoration of the dead |
| ballad | a narrative poem that is often set to music and tells a story in short stanzas |
| villanelle | a 19-line poem composed of five tercets (three-line stanzas) followed by a quatrain (four-line stanza), where the first and third lines of the opening tercet repeat alternately as the final line of each subsequent stanza. |
| pastoral | a literary genre that idealizes rural life, often depicting shepherds and countryside landscapes in a romanticized way, contrasting the simplicity and serenity of nature with the complexities of urban existence |
| requiem | a Catholic mass, service, or musical composition that honors the dead |
| tercet | a poetic unit consisting of three lines, which can be a complete poem or a stanza within a larger poem |
| quatrain | a series of four-lines that make one verse of a poem, known as a stanza |
| free verse | a type of poetry that doesn't follow a set rhyme scheme or meter |
| dramatic monologue | A poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader |
| alliteration | the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words that are close together in a sentence or line of poetry |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds within close proximity in a line of poetry or sentence |
| consonance | a literary device that occurs when two words have the same consonant sound following different vowel sounds |
| onomatopoeia | a literary device that uses the letter sounds of a word to imitate the natural sound emitted from an object or action. |
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