AP Lit: Poetry Term Review

What is a motif?

• A type of rhyme

• A type of imagery

• An image or idea that appears frequently in a text

• A type of literary device

What is assonance?

• Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words

• Repetition of consonants in nearby words

• The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next

• Opposite of enjambment

What is consonance?

• Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words

• Repetition of consonants in nearby words

• The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next

• Opposite of enjambment

What is enjambment?

• Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words

• Repetition of consonants in nearby words

• The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next

• Opposite of end stopped

What is end stopped?

• Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words

• Repetition of consonants in nearby words

• The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next

• Opposite of enjambment

What is slant rhyme?

• Words that nearly rhyme

• Words that have similar but not identical sounds

• Words that rhyme visually but not audibly

• Words that rhyme exactly

What is eye rhyme?

• Words that nearly rhyme

• Words that have similar but not identical sounds

• Words that rhyme visually but not audibly

• Words that rhyme exactly

What is the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of the era; the spirit of the time?

• enjambment

• consonance

• juxtaposition

• zeitgeist

What is: A stop or pause within a metrical line, often marked by punctuation or by a grammatical boundary?

• motif

• enjambment

• caesaura

• zeitgeist

What is poetry based on a work of art?

• romantic poetry

• metaphorical poetry

• imagist poetry

• ekphrastic poetry