AP LIT Poetry Terms

Slant rhyme

Close, not exact “bees, “cease”

Internal rhyme

Same line of poetry

Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter

Blank Use

Apostrophe

Addresses nonhuman/absent object as if present

Rythm

Pattern agreed by poetry

Scansion

actually scanning a line

Foot

A pattern of stresses w/ syllables

Meter

Rhyme scheme of a poem ‘iamb’ ‘iambic’ ‘pentameter’

Synecdoche

a part resembles the whole

Metonymy

Using something correlated as a representation

Enjambment

line to line w/ no pause or break

Caesura

Very intentional pause in a line of poetry

Antithesis

Parrallel syntax of elements of the opposite

Anaphora

Repititon of an opening word or phrase

Refrain

Repeated word/line/ group of line

Consonance

Repetition of final consonant sound

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds (had, ran, amber)