AP Unit: Poetry

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  1. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  2. epitaph
    an inscription in memory of a buried person
  3. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  4. ballad
    a narrative poem of popular origin
  5. blank verse
    unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter
  6. caesura
    a break or pause in the middle of a verse line
  7. conceit
    an elaborate poetic image comparing very dissimilar things
  8. enjambment
    continuation from one line of verse into the next line
  9. epic
    a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  10. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  11. lyric
    of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion
  12. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  13. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  14. pastoral
    a literary work idealizing the rural life
  15. Petrarchan sonnet
    a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd
  16. quatrain
    a stanza of four lines
  17. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  18. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  19. Shakespearean sonnet
    a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
  20. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  21. terza rima
    a verse form with tercets having an interlaced rhyme scheme
  22. couplet
    a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
  23. dactyl
    metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables
  24. trochee
    a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables
  25. dactylic
    of or consisting of dactyls
  26. trochaic
    of or consisting of trochees
  27. spondee
    a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
  28. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  29. point of view
    a mental position from which things are perceived
Created on Fri Jan 10 10:36:33 EST 2014 (updated Tue Feb 02 15:40:48 EST 2016)

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