AP Literary Terms #21-40

denotation

• dictionary definition

• implied definition

• verse with two feet per line

• author's word choice

diction

• dictionary definiton

• author's word choice

• a unit of meter

• the speaker, subject, and circumstances of a poem

dimeter

• a unit of meter

• verse with ten feet per line

• meter with two feet per line

• poem in honor of someone who has died

dramatic monologue

• the speaker, subject, and circumstances of a poem

• a poem honoring someone deceased

• poetry without regular rhythm or rhyme scheme and no fixed form

• a poem like a speech, in which the poet speaks with an assumed voice

dramatic situation

• the speaker, subject, and circumstances of a poem

• a poem like a speech, in which the poet speaks with an assumed voice

• exaggeration

• a short descriptive phrase or title

elegy

• a short descriptive phrase or title

• a poem honoring someone who is deceased

• harmony of sounds

• an indirect comparison that runs on for several lines

end rhyme

• rhyming words ending in unstressed syllables

• identical sounds rhyming

• when the last syllable of a line rhymes with the last syllable of another line

• harmony of sounds

end-stopped line

• when an idea does not end at the end of the line but runs onto the next line

• identical sounds rhyming

• rhyming words ending in unstressed syllables

• when an idea is finished at the end of a line, usually indicated by punctuation

English Sonnet

• 14 lines written in iambic pentameter, ending in a couplet

• poem honoring someone who is deceased

• poetry without regular rhythm or rhyme scheme and no fixed form

• Sonnet made famous by Petrarch

enjambment

• when an idea is finished at the end of a line, usually indicated by punctuation

• when an idea does not end at the end of the line but runs onto the next line

• a short descriptive phrase or title

• identical sounds rhyming