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AP Poetry
Terms from AP Poetry Unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | repetition of sounds, usually the first letters of successive words, or words that are close together. Alliteration usually applies only to consonants. |
| Assonance | repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. |
| Ballad | originally a song which tells a story, often involving dialogue. Characteristically, the storyteller's own feelings are not expressed. |
| Caesura | strong pause in a line of verse, usually appearing in the middle of a line and marked with a comma, semi-colon, or a full stop. |
| Couplet | pair of rhymed lines, often used as a way of rounding off a sonnet; hence the term ‘closing couplet’. |
| Diction | writer's choice of words. Might be described, for instance, as formal or informal, elevated or colloquial. |
| Elegy | poem of loss, usually mourning the death of a public figure, or someone close to the poet. |
| Ellipsis | omission of words from a sentence to achieve brevity and compression. Enjambment |
| Epic | a long narrative poem dealing with events on a grand scale, often with a hero above average in qualities and exploits. |
| Epigram | witty, condensed expression. |
| Foot | a unit of metre with a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. In the examples that follow, a stressed syllable is indicated by ‘/’, and an unstressed syllable by ‘x’ |
| Heroic couplet | iambic pentameter lines rhyming in pairs, most commonly used for satiric or didactic poetry, and particularly favoured in the eighteenth century. |
| Iambic pentameter | a line consisting of five iambs. |
| Imagery | special use of language in a way that evokes sense impressions (usually visual). |
| Metre | measurement of a line of poetry, including its length and its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| Octave | group of eight lines of poetry, often forming the first part of a sonnet. |
| Ode | a poem on a serious subject, usually written in an elevated formal style; often written to commemorate public events. |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that seems to imitate the sound or sounds associated with the object or action, for example, ‘cuckoo’. |
| Ottava rima | a poem in eight-line stanzas, rhyming a b a b a b c c. |
| Poetic inversion | reversing the order of normal speech in order to make the words fit a particular rhythm, or rhyme, or both. |
| Quatrain | group of four lines of poetry, usually rhymed. |
| Refrain | a line or phrase repeated throughout a poem, sometimes with variations, often at the end of each stanza. |
| Sestet | group of six lines of poetry, often forming the second part of a sonnet. |
| Sonnet | fourteen iambic pentameter lines with varying rhyme schemes. |
| Tercet | group of three lines in poetry, sometimes referred to as a triplet. |
| Turn | distinctive movement of change in mood or thought or feeling. |
| Villanelle | an intricate French verse form with some lines repeated, and only two rhyme sounds throughout the five three-line stanzas and the final four-line stanza. |
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