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AP Elements ofPoetry
AP Elements of Poetry:Literature and composition
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Figurative Language | language that cannot be taken literally |
| tone | the writers or speakers attitude toward the subject, the reader, of herself/ him self |
| denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word |
| connotation | what a word suggests beyond its meaning |
| imagery | the representation through language of sense experiance |
| foot | the basic unit of a meter, usually consisting of two syllables |
| stanza | a group of metrical lines whose metrical pattern is repeated trough out a poem |
| substitution | replacing the regular foot with a different one |
| extra syllable | an added beginning or ending in a line of poetry |
| elision | the omission of an unaccented syllable at the beginning or end of a line of poetry |
| scansion | the process of defining the metrical form of a poem |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| iambic pentameter | a line of poetry consisting of five iambs |
| iamb | a disyllabic foot in which the first syllable is unaccented and the second is accented |
| trochee | a disyllabic foot in which the first syllable is accented and the second is unaccented |
| phyrrhic | a disllabic foot in which both syllables are unaccented |
| spondee | a disyllabic foot in which both syllables are accented |
| simile | a means of comparing that are unalike using words such as like or as than similair to or resembles or seems |
| metaphor | a means of comparing things that are unalike by substituting a figurative term for a literal term |
| personification | giving a object human traits |
| apostrophe | a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting |
| metonymy | the use of something closely related for the thing actually meant |
| meter | organized rhythme |
| free verse | poetry that has no organized rhythme beyond line breaks |
| caesura | a pause within a line |
| enjambent | when the sense of the line moves with out pause into the next line |
| end stopping | when the end of a line corresponds with a natural speech pause |
| accent/stress | a syllable that is given more prominence than others in pronuciation |
| rhythme | any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound |
| symbol | something that means more than it is |
| allegory | a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface |
| paradox | an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration in the service of truth |
| understatment | saying less than what one means |
| irony | meanings that extend beyond their use merely as a figure of speech |
| sarcasm | bitter or cutting speech |
| satire | a literally work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule |
| allusion | a reference to something in history or previous literature |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| refrain | when repetition is done according to a fixed pattern |
| slant rhyme | when words have any kind of sound similarity |
| end rhyme | when rhyming words are at the end of the line |
| internal rhyme | when one or more rhyming words are within the line |
| feminine rhyme | when the rhyme sounds involve two or more syllables |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | the repetition of the final consonant sounds |
| rhyme | the repetition of the accented vowel sound and any succeeding consonant sounds |
| masculine rhyme | when the ryhme sounds involve only one syllable |
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