AP Lit Poetry Review

stanza

• a group of words or a phrase in a poem

• a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in poetry

• a pattern of rhyme in a poem

• repeating words, phrases, or lines for emphasis

the voice talking to the reader in a poem

• speaker

• character

• author

• poet

a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause

• apostrophe
• couplet
• enjambment
• caesura

Poetry not written in traditional meter but still rhythmical

• heroic couplet

• free verse

• blank verse

• terza rhyma

enjambment

• a strong pause within a line of verse

• a rhyme that occurs at the end of lines

• logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next

• the voice in a poem that talks to the reader (not to be confused with the poet)

I’m nobody! || Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there’s a pair of us || – don’t tell!

They’d banish || – you know!

• caesura

• enjambment

“April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain."

• caesura

• enjambment

end rhyme

• Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry

• A rhyme scheme is the pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.

• A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line

Repetition of vowel sounds

• Consonance

• alliteration

• assonance

end stop

• the ending of a line with punctuation

• A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line

• the pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.