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

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

A septet is

• 5 lines

• 6 lines

• 7 lines

• 9 lines

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

• meter

• foot

• free verse

• blank verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

What word describes two feet of verse?

• monometer

• trimeter

• dimeter

• tetrameter

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

What word describes six feet of verse?

• hexameter

• dimeter

• tetrameter

• monmeter

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

several words begin with the same consonant sound in a row

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

• couplet

• meter

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

the voice talking to the reader in a poem

• speaker

• tone

• prose

• poet

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8