AP Poetry Terms

Repeating an initial consonant sound

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Diction

the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the sound to be heard

• alliteration

• diction

• euphony

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

arrange and repeat vowels, and smooth consonants (l,m,n,y,w) to create flowing and pleasing sound

• alliteration

• diction

• euphony

• assonance

poem's entire word choice: elevated, colloquial, unusual, conversational, specialized, vernacular

• alliteration

• diction

• euphony

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity

• consonance

• cacophony

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

a harsh discordant mixture of sounds

• consonance

• cacophony

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

An emotion or something inhuman, such as a mountain or love or a tree, is given human qualities.

• oxymoron

• synecdoche

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Contrasting words are juxtaposed in order to encompass contrary impressions or ideas.

• oxymoron

• synecdoche

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The reader can assume that the speaker of a poem is the poet.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The speaker does not equal the poet! A poem may be autobiographical, but we never assume that the voice in the poem is the poet's.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

acts like a paragraph in prose

• couplet

• sonnet

• villanelle

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.5