AP Lit Poetry Terms

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

• couplet
• meter
• tone

The Petrarchan Sonnet is also known as

• Irish
• English
• Dickensian
• Italian

imagery

• An exaggeration

• A phrase that is not meant to be taken literally

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses

an eight line stanza

• iamb

• octave

• noctave

• octagon

A three-line stanza with rhymes aba, bcb, cdc, such as used in Dante's Divine Comedy

• sonnet

• terza rima

• rhyme royal

• villanelle

A short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings in an emotional, song-like manner

• narrative

• drama

• lyric

• free verse

unrhymed iambic pentameter

• free verse
• long verse
• blank verse
• English verse

the emotional influence of a word

• connotation
• structure
• simile

A non-dramatic poem that tells a story

• elegy

• lyric

• narrative poem

• sonnet

The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry known as a foot

• rhyme

• meter

• ballad

• diction