AP Literature Vocabulary - Poem

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Stanza

A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

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Foot

The basic unit of rhythmic measurement in a line of poetry

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Metaphor

A figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using

like or as

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Simile

A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between

things of different kinds (usually forms with ‘like’ or ‘as’)

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Alliteration

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Appositives

a noun phrase that follows another noun phrase and provides additional information about it

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Line Break

come at the end of the line of a poem

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rhyme

pattern of words that contain similar sounds

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meter

the basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry

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Trochee

DUH-duh

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Iamb

duh-DUH

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Spondee

DUH-DUH

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Dactyl

DUH-duh-duh

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Anapest

duh-duh-DUH

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pentameter

five feet, this applies to other prefixes

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scansion

the method of graphically determining the rhyme of a poem

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italian sonnet

14 lines, octave and sesten

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english sonnet

14 lines, 3 quatrains and 1 couplet

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