AP Lit Poetry Terms

the repetition of vowel sounds

• assonance

• alliteration

• consonance

• anaphora

discordance of rough or harsh sounds

• cacophony

• euphony

• synesthesia

• enjambment

Shakespeare uses a __________ in this line "To be or not to be, that is the question"

• caesura

• metaphor

• simile

• enjambment

This term means the representation through language of sense experience

• imagery

• tone

• mood

• symbolism

how the speaker feels about the subject or another character in a poem

• tone

• mood

• sensory imagery

• caesura

The feelings evoked in the reader because of the author's use of diction and imagery

• tone

• mood

• symbolism

• setting

A play on words, where an author employs a word that has a second meaning or that sounds to a similar word, and both meanings can be applied

• pun

• denotation

• connotation

• pastoral

refers to all associated or implied meanings of a word

• denotation

• connotation

• assonance

• synecdoche

A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme​

• aubade

• ballad

• pastoral

• sonnet

A poem set in tranquil nature, or one about shepherds​

• lyric

• pastoral

• ballad

• aubade