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POETRY TERMS

POETRY TERMS. AP Literature & Composition Exam Review. Alliteration . Alliteration. Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines . Example: f ast and f urious. Assonance . Assonance.

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POETRY TERMS

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  1. POETRY TERMS AP Literature & Composition Exam Review

  2. Alliteration

  3. Alliteration • Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. • Example: fast and furious

  4. Assonance

  5. Assonance • Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. • Example: bruise/lose • Example:neigh/fade

  6. Consonance

  7. Consonance • Repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. This produces a pleasing kind of near-rhyme. • Example: boats into the past • Example: cool soul

  8. Cacophony

  9. Cacophony • A discordant series of harsh, unpleasant soundshelps to convey disorder. This is often furthered by the combined effect of the meaning and the difficulty of pronunciation. • Example: My stick fingers click with a snicker And, chuckling, they knuckle the keys; Light-footed, my steel feelers flicker And pluck from these keys melodies. —“Player Piano,” John Updike

  10. Euphony

  11. Euphony • A series of musically pleasant sounds, conveying a sense of harmony and beauty to the language. • Example: Than Oars divide the Ocean/ Too silver for a seam—Or Butterflies, off Banks of NoonLeap, splashlessas they swim.— “A Bird Came Down the Walk,” Emily Dickenson (last stanza)

  12. Synesthesia

  13. Synesthesia • An attempt to fuse different senses by describing one kind of sense impression in words normally used to describe another. • Example: The sound of her voice was sweet. • Example: a loud aroma, a velvety smile

  14. Allusion

  15. Allusion • A brief reference to some person, historical event, work of art, or Biblical or mythological situation or character.

  16. Apostrophe

  17. Apostrophe • Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or inanimate object; addressing that person or thing by name. • Example: O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done...

  18. Connotation

  19. Connotation • The emotional, psychological or social overtones of a word; its implications and associations apart from its literal meaning. Often, this is what distinguishes the precisely correct word from one that is merely acceptable.

  20. Denotation

  21. Denotation • The dictionary definition of a word; its literal meaning apart from any associations or connotations.

  22. Euphemism

  23. Euphemism • An understatement, used to lessen the effect of a statement; substituting something innocuous for something that might be offensive or hurtful. • Example: She is at rest. (meaning, she’s dead)

  24. Metonymy

  25. Metonymy • A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it. • Example: The White House stated today that... • Example:The Crown reported today that... • Example: Wall St. walked off with most of our savings.

  26. Oxymoron

  27. Oxymoron • A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other. • Example: a pointless point of view; bittersweet

  28. Paradox

  29. Paradox • A statement in which a seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth. • Example: The faster I go the more behind I get.

  30. Synecdoche

  31. Synecdoche • Indicating a person, object, etc. by letting only a certain part represent the whole. • Example: All hands on deck. • Example: using “wheels” to mean a car • Example: referring to violins, violas, cellos, and basses as “the strings”

  32. Enjambment

  33. Enjambment • The continuation of the logical sense — and therefore the grammatical construction — beyond the end of a line of poetry. This is sometimes done with the title, which in effect becomes the first line of the poem.

  34. End Rhyme V. • Internal Rhyme

  35. End Rhyme v. Internal Rhyme • End Rhyme – rhyme that occurs at the end of lines of poetry • Example: Her voice, soft and lovely when she sings, Came to me last night in a dream. In my head her voice still rings, How pleasant last night must seem. • Internal Rhyme – a rhyme occurring within a line of poetry • Example: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary…

  36. Open Form

  37. Open Form • Poetic form free from regularity and consistency in elements such as rhyme, line length, and metrical form • Free Verse – lines with no prescribed pattern or structure – poet determines all the variables as seems appropriate for each poem

  38. Closed Form

  39. Closed Form • poetic form subject to a fixed structure and pattern

  40. Blank Verse

  41. Blank Verse • unrhymed iambic pentameter

  42. Couplet V. • Heroic Couplet

  43. Couplet v. Heroic Couplet • Couplet: a pair of lines, usually rhymed; this is the shortest stanza • Heroic Couplet: a pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter

  44. Stanza

  45. Stanza • group of lines in the formal pattern of a poem • Types of stanzas include: • Couplet – two rhymed lines, shortest stanza • Tercet – three lines, usually with the same rhyme • Quatrain – four lines • Cinquain – five lines • Sestet – six lines • Octave – eight lines

  46. Elegy

  47. Elegy • a formal poem focusing on death or mortality, usually beginning with the recent death of a particular person

  48. Idyll

  49. Idyll • a short, descriptive narrative, usually a poem, about an idealized rural life • also called a pastoral

  50. Lyric Poetry

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