AP Lit Unknown Terms Part 2

• Literature that is intended to teach or instruct, often with a moral or philosophical lesson. Siddhartha listened. He was now listening intently, completely absorbed, quite empty, taking in everything. He felt that he had now completely learned the art of listening. Herman Hesse, Siddhartha.)

• ode

• paradox

• synecdoche

• didactic

• A highly structured poem consisting of 19 lines, with a specific rhyme scheme and repeated lines, often exploring themes of obsession or repetition. ("Do not go gentle into that good night, (A) / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; (B) / Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (A) - Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night)

• lyrical poem

• villanelle

• ode

• ballad

•  A repeated line, phrase, or group of lines in a poem or song, typically at regular intervals, serving to emphasize a theme or idea. ( "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'" - Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven)

• refrain

• stanza

• caesura

• synesthesia

•  A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. ("To be, or not to be: that is the question." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet)

• alliteration

• antithesis

• alliteration

• assonance

A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, or vice versa. ("Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar)

• enjambment

• caesura

• aside

• synecdoche

• A poem consisting of 14 lines, typically written in iambic pentameter, with a specific rhyme scheme, commonly used for expressions of love or reflection. ( "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (A) / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: (B) / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, (A) / And summer's lease hath all too short a date." (B) - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18)

• ode

• sonnet

• villanelle

• metonymy

• A grouped set of lines within a poem, usually with a consistent meter and rhyme scheme.

• couplet

• blank verse

• stanza

• rhyme scheme

•  Poetry that expresses personal emotions or feelings, often characterized by a musical quality and heightened language. ( "Out of the night that covers me, / Black as the pit from pole to pole,/ I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul." - William Ernest Henley, Invictus)

• sonnet

• synethesia

• narrative ballad

• lyrical poetry

• The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next without a pause or break in meaning. (So much depends upon/a red wheelbarrow/glazed with rain water/beside the white chickens-William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”)

• enjambment

• meter

• rhythm

• assonance

• The repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words in a sentence or phrase. (I wandered lonely as a cloud/That floats on high o’er vales and hills,/When all at once I saw a crowd,/A host, of golden daffodils. William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”)

  
  

• consonance

• assonance

• metomyny

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