AP Lit Poetry Terms

A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn​

• aubade

• ballad

• pastoral

• rhapsody

The poet writes in a series of stanzas, usually in the same metrical pattern and often in an identical rhyme scheme

• Fixed Form

• Stanzaic Form

• Continuous Form

•is a 19-line poem consisting of five tercets and one quatrain. It is best recognized by its rhyming refrains repeated throughout the poem.

• villanelle

• blank verse

• sonnet

• ballad

14 line long lyric poems with regular meter (usually iambic pentameter) ABAB CDCD EFEFGG

• sonnet

• villanelle

• ballad

• limerick

Comparison between two things that use helping verbs "like" "as" "than" or "resembles"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• conceit

A comparison between two things that does NOT use any helping verbs

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• conceit

an extended metaphor with complex logic or a startling comparison - takes places over an entire passage or poem

• simile

• personification

• conceit

• apostrophe

The use of the part for the whole

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

• Personiciation

• Simile

The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant ie using blood for "life"

• metonymy

• synedoche

• personification

• paradox

a contradiction that is nevertheless true

• paradox

• synecdoche

• metonymy

• conceit