AP Lit Poetry Terms

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Here are all the terms you need to know for the AP exam and upcoming poetry exam. You got this!

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Apostrophe

When the speaker addresses an absent person, object, idea, or being (much like an actual apostrophe!)

<p>When the speaker addresses an absent person, object, idea, or being (much like an actual apostrophe!)</p>
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Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds creating an internal rhyme (ex. his tEnder hEir might bEar his mEmory)

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Consonance

Repetition of consonant sounds creating an internal rhyme (ex. toSS the glaSS boSS)

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Alliteration

Repetition of the first letter in a series of words (ex. Polly’s Prancing Pony Performed Perfectly)

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Aubade

A genre of poetry that expresses the frustration, sadness, and longing felt at dawn after leaving a partner the night before; a dawn serenade

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Ballad

A poem with musical quality; most often uses ABCB or ABAB rhyme scheme

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Limerick

A short, humorous verse that is often nonsensical

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Blank Verse

An ordinary poem that does not rhyme

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Free Verse

A poem with a consistent rhyme scheme/identifiable pattern

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Caesura

A break or pause in a line of a poem that marks the end of a phrase and the beginning of another

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Volta

The turning point of a poem in context of the overall message/deeper meaning

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Metaphysical Conceit

An unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor serving more intellectual purpose rather than sensual purpose

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Didactic Poetry

Poems that contain a clear moral message or purpose to convey to readers to provide knowledge

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End-Stopped

A line that ends with a grammatical break- such as a dash, parenthesis, colon, etc. (isn’t only a period! the picture was just an example to help you remember)

<p>A line that ends with a grammatical break- such as a dash, parenthesis, colon, etc. (isn’t only a period! the picture was just an example to help you remember)</p>
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Enjambment

Running over of one phrase to the next with lack of grammatical break

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Foot

Basic unit of measurement for syllables in poetry

<p>Basic unit of measurement for syllables in poetry</p>
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Anapest

Poetic rhythmic pattern- two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable (say it like this: AN😡- UH😡- pest🙂)

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Dactyl

Poetic rhythmic pattern- one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables (say it like this: DA😡- ct🙂- tyl🙂)

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Iamb

Poetic rhythmic pattern- one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. (NOTE: This word starts with an i, its not lamb like the sheep) (say it like this: ia🙂- MB😡😡😡😡)

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Spondee

Two syllable poetic rhythmic pattern where two syllables are stressed (say it like this: SPON😡- DEE😡) (i hope these “say it like this”s are actually helpful and not annoying

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Trochee

Two syllable poetic rhythmic pattern where one stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed one (say it like this TRO😡- chee🙂)

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Hyperbole

Poems that use extreme exaggeration for the sake of comedic relief

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Litotes

An understatement used for effect; opposite of hyperbole

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Understatment

Figure of speech that reduces something’s importance and makes it seem less serious than it actually is; this is usually used for sake of contrast to ironically emphasize something’s importance

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Meter

The rhythm (or patterns of beats) in poetry

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Monometer

A metrical line of verse with a single (feet? foot?)

<p>A metrical line of verse with a single (feet? foot?)</p>
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Dimeter

A metrical line of verse with two feet

<p>A metrical line of verse with two feet</p>
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Trimeter

A metrical line of verse with three feet

<p>A metrical line of verse with three feet</p>
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Tetrameter

A metrical line of verse with four feet

<p>A metrical line of verse with four feet</p>
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Pentameter

A metrical line of verse with five feet

<p>A metrical line of verse with five feet </p>
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Hexameter

A metrical line of verse with six feet

<p>A metrical line of verse with six feet</p>
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Heptameter

A metrical line of verse with seven feet

<p>A metrical line of verse with seven feet</p>
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Octometer

A metrical line of verse with eight feet

<p>A metrical line of verse with eight feet</p>
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Metonymy

A form of figurative language where a word is replaced by something very close to its original meaning (ex. “I’ll lend you a hand!”- “Hand” is used as a metonymy for assistance)

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Synedoche

A figure of speech where a part of something stands for the whole (ex. “Mouths to feed”- “mouths” are only a part of the hungry group which needs to be fed)

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Onomatopoeia

Sound effects in a poem (ex. Boom! Pow!)

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Oxymoron

A figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings (ex. Deafening Silence, Alone Together- see how the two words work together but mean completely different things?)

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Paradox

A literary device that appears to contradict itself but contains some truth, theme, or humor (ex. Less is more, the only rule is that there are no rules)

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Phonetic Intensives

A word whose sound, by an obscure degree, suggests its meaning (“fl-” implies moving light: flicker, flame, flare, flash)

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Cacophony

The use of harsh, unpleasant sound, or mixture of discordant sounds

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Euphony

The use of pleasant, agreeable sounds; most sound devices and rhymes may produce a euphonic effect

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Couplet

A pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same meter (ex. (1) Double, double, toil and trouble (2) Fire burn and cauldron bubble)

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Quatrain

A type of stanza or complete poem that consists of four lines

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Refrain

A repeated word, line, or group of lines that appear at the end of a stanza

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Seset

A six-line stanza of poetry

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Octave

An eight-line stanza of poetry

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Rhythm

The recurrence of specific sounds based on long and short patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Rhyme

The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line (I hope this flashcard is a skip for you guys, you should know what a rhyme is…. right..?)

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Rhyme Scheme

A pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem

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Slant Rhyme

A type of rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical, sounds. (ex. “worm” and “swarm” they rhyme but not quite)

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Feminine Rhyme

A rhyme that contains a stressed syllable followed by one or more unstressed syllables (FEM- in- ine.. okay you get the point)

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Masculine Rhyme

A monosyllabic rhyme; and rhyme that occurs only in stressed final syllables (ex. “lAKE” and “fAKE”)

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End Rhyme

When the last syllables within a verse rhyme

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Internal Rhyme

Rhyme that occurs within a single line of a verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines

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Scansion

(or scanning) Is the method of breaking up the lines of a poem into metrical feet in order to identify stressed and unstressed syllables

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Ictus

A stressed syllable; denoted with a slash as seen in that image

<p>A stressed syllable; denoted with a slash as seen in that image</p>
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Breve

A curved mark (˘) used to indicate a short vowel or a short/unstressed syllable as seen in the image

<p>A curved mark (˘) used to indicate a short vowel or a short/unstressed syllable as seen in the image</p>
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Stress/Accent

Refers to the prominence of a sound, usually a vowel

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Sestina

A fixed verse consisting of six stanzas of six lines each

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Elgy

A poem of serious reflection, usually in lament of the dead

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Sonnet

A 14 line poem, each line with 10 syllables, these poems will have a rhyme scheme

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Shakespearean

This really did not need to be a whole vocab term.. literally any poem written by Shakespeare

<p>This really did not need to be a whole vocab term.. literally any poem written by Shakespeare</p>
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Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet

A sonnet consisting of an ABBA ABBA rhyme scheme and a sestet with any rhyme scheme (i also thought this was just going to be “sonnet by Petrarch” but ig he’s special)

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Spensarian

A sonnet where the rhyme scheme is abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.

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Terza Rima

A verse form composed of iambic tercets (three-line groupings)

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Villanelle

A 19-lined poem split into 5 tercets (15 lines) and 1 quatrain (4 lines)

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Cataloging

A collection of people, objects, ideas, and other elements in list form in a poem

<p>A collection of people, objects, ideas, and other elements in list form in a poem</p>
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Kenning

Describing something in a poem without actually naming it (95-numbered, race-winner, piston-cup-holder)

<p>Describing something in a poem without actually naming it (95-numbered, race-winner, piston-cup-holder)</p>
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Anthropomorphism

A figure of speech where human qualities are given to anything inhuman

(note: NOT. PERSONIFICATION. personification is not literal where this one is. “The lights winked” THE LIGHTS DID NOT ACTUALLY WINK thats personification. If it was anthropomorphism, the lights would be literally given eyes to be able to wink)

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