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AP Literature
Poetry - fixed form
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English
11th Grade
01/07/2009

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two couplet
Definition
two consecutive lines that rhyme and have the same meter
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heroic couplet
Definition
rhymed iambic pentameter
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three tercet
Definition
three-line stanza
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triplet
Definition
three consecutive lines that rhyme
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terza rima
Definition
numerous tercets with interlocking rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc ded efe
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four quatrain
Definition
four-line stanza, most popular line grouping
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ballad
Definition
quatrains with alternating eight and six syllable lines and an abcb rhyme scheme
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sonnet
Definition
fourteen lined poem, usually in iambic pentameter
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Italian sonnet
Definition
an octave with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba presents the situation, attitude, or problem, a following sestet with a varying rhyme scheme resolves the situation
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English/Shakespearean sonnet
Definition
three quatrains with a couplet and a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg
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tillanelle
Definition
nineteen lines usually broken into five tercets and one quatrain; tercets all share the aba rhyme scheme while the quatrain has an abaa; in addition, line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18, and line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, and 19
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sestina
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six sestets plus an envoy consisting of three lines, six words are repeated in a specified order at the end of the lines; two of the words are repeated in each line of the envoy in no set order, one in the middle and one at the end of the line
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parody
Definition
enerally a humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work
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picture poem
Definition
a poem arranged on the page to evoke a particularly appropriate shape
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ode
Definition
generally seen as serious lyric poems with a formal tone loftily celebrating the attributes of the subject, speaker often uses apostrophe, no fixed form
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epigram
Definition
brief, pointed, witty poem, usually in couples with irony, satire, or paradox
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limerick
Definition
five anapestic lines rhyming aabba; lines 1, 2, and 5 have three feet while 3 and 4 have two feet, light and humorous, usually sexually explicit and anonymously written
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haiku
Definition
the English interpretation of seventeen syllables in three lines (5-7-5) is an approximation of the Japanese versions which have an actual duration, generally depict intense emotion or a vivid image of nature which are meant to lead to spiritual insight
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elegy
Definition
a lyric poem written to commemorate someone who is dead, no longer has fixed form
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simile
Definition
an explicit comparison between two things using words such as “like,” “as,” “than,” “appears,” or “seems”
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metaphor
Definition
makes a comparison between two unlike things, but does it implicitly, sometimes by saying one thing is another, and other times merely implying the comparison
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double entendre
Definition
like a pun, only the “alternative” meaning is sexually suggestive
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synecdoche
Definition
part of something is used to signify the whole, or vice versa, ex. "Princeton won the fencing match."
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metonymy
Definition
something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it, ex. "She prefers the silver screen to reading."
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apostrophe
Definition
an address either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend
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hyperbole
Definition
an exaggeration for emphasis
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