APLit Poetry Terms Vocab (back side 27-52)

Foot

A measuring unit in poetry, which is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Free Verse

Poetry that does not contain patterns of rhyme or meter.

Hendiadys

The expression of an idea with two independent words connected by and.

Implied Metaphor

Compares two unlike things, but it does so without mentioning one of them.

Internal Rhyme

Metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhymes with each other.

irony

Words whose intended meaning is different from the actual meaning.

Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet

Consisting of an octave rhyming abba abba and a sestet rhyming in any of various patterns.

Juxtaposition

Two or more ideas, places, characters or their actions placed side by side for comparison.

Litotes

Understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary.

Masculine Rhyme

When the rhyme is on the final syllable of the two rhyming words.

Metonymy

Replacing the name of a thing w/ the name of something else with which it is associated.

Paradox

A statement that appears to be self contradictory but includes a latent truth.

Parenthesis

A qualifying or explanatory sentence, clause or word inserted into a paragraph or passage.

Pastoral

Rural or country related.

Periphrasis

Excessively formal word choice.

Polyptoton

A rhetorical repetition of the same root word;, repeated in different forms.

Polysendeton

Several coordinating conjunctions used in succession to achieve an artistic effect.

Prose

Writing that is not poetry; line length doesn’t matter, i.e. paragraphs.

Rhyme Scheme

Pattern of rhymes. (ABAB)

Slant Rhyme

Rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical.

Spondee

A beat in a poetic line which consists of two accented syllables or DUM DUM pattern.

Stanza

A set of lines in a poem; equivalent to a prose paragraph.

Synecdoche

A part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.

Tone

An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.

Understatement

Opposite of hyperbole/exaggeration; ironically lessening the importance of something.

Zeugma

Using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways.