AP Lit Poetry Terms

The element of design is slight. The lines follow each other without formal grouping, the only breaks being dictated by units of meaning, as paragraphs are in prose. Could contain rhyme, but not in an organized form

• Fixed Form

• Stanzaic Form

• Continuous Form

A septet is

• 5 lines

• 6 lines

• 7 lines

• 9 lines

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

• meter

• foot

• free verse

• blank verse

What word describes two feet of verse?

• monometer

• trimeter

• dimeter

• tetrameter

What word describes six feet of verse?

• hexameter

• dimeter

• tetrameter

• monmeter

When two or more words have the same sound at the ends of lines

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• rhyme

several words begin with the same consonant sound in a row

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

Rhythm is....

• The beat you hear when reading a poem

• A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• what you use to determine meter

• All of these

a rhyme that occurs in two consecutive (back to back) lines of poetry

• couplet

• meter

• tone

the voice talking to the reader in a poem

• speaker

• tone

• prose

• poet