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AP English Midterm V
Vocabulary words on poetry
| Vocabulary | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cacophony | a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds |
| Blank Verse | a line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Free Verse | poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme |
| Dactyl | a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones |
| Elegy | a lyric poem that laments the dead |
| Epic | a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero |
| Foot | a metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Imagery | a concrete representation of a a sensed impression, a feeling or idea |
| Lyric poem | a type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling |
| Meter | the measured pattern of rythmic accents in a poem |
| Metaphysical Poetry | exhibit introspective meditations on love death God and human fraility |
| Spondee | a metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables such as (knick - knock) |
| Metonymy | a word that is used to stand for something that is part of it |
| Symbolism | an object or action in a literary work that means more than itself |
| Apostrophe | an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea |
| Rhyme | repitition of sound in the final syllable of words |
| Rhythm | pattern of accents we hear in a word |
| Synecdoche | word that is used to stand for something that is associated |
| Personification | to give inanimate objects or beings animate human qualities |
| Ballad | earliest poetic forms, dialogue and minor characterization |
| Narrative Poem | a poem that tells a story, rhyme scheme, quatrains, song-like qualities |
| Villanelle | a 19 line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition |
| Tercet | a three line stanza |
| Ode | a long stately poem in stanzas of varied length meter and form |
| Sonnet | type of lyric poem, always 14 lines |
| English (Shakespearean) Sonnet | abab cdcd efef gg 3 quatrains (introduces and expands the subject) 1 couplet(conclusion) |
| Italian (petrarchan) Sonnet | Octave(8) - states a problem Sestet (6)- presents a solution abba abba cde cde cde cdcdcd |
| Epigram | a brief witty poem often satirical |
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