AP Poetry Vocab

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Type of writing expressing emotions and images imaginatively

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poetry

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Words sharing the same ending sound

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rhyme

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Repeating the same vowel sound in words

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assonance

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Repeating the same consonant sound at the start of words

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alliteration

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Writer's attitude/mood toward a subject or audience.

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tone

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A word that imitates a sound.

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onomatopoeia

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Beat of the poem; pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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rhythm/meter

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Pattern of rhymes in a poem; last words in a line follow a pattern.

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rhyme scheme

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Lines of poetry grouped without space, like a paragraph.

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stanza

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Where a poet ends one line and starts another

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line break