AP Poetry Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Anagram | a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase |
| cacophony | loud confusing disagreeable sounds |
| controlling metaphor | A metaphor that is central to and runs through an entire work. usually in title |
| didactic poetry | poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching |
| doggerel | a comic verse of irregular measure |
| envoy | a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry |
| euphony | any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds |
| eye rhyme | Depends on spelling rather than sound; words that look like they should rhyme, but do not (i.e. love and move) |
| fixed form | any form of poem in which the length and pattern are prescribed by previous usage or tradition |
| found poem | a poem that has not been deliberately composed but discovered, by chance, in some other context |
| implied metaphor | Implies or suggests the comparison between the two thing without stating it directly |
| limerick | a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba |
| rising meter | unstressed to stressed |
| falling meter | stressed to unstressed |
| organic form | takes shape and pattern from the content of poem itself |
| prosody | the study of poetic meter and the art of versification |
| masculine rhyme | occurs when the rhyme ends on a stressed syllable (i.e. "today" and "sashay") |
| feminine rhyme | occurs when the rhyme ends on an unstressed syllable (i.e. "calling" and "falling") |
| exact rhyme | perfect rhyme, such as buzz and fuzz |
| picture poem | A type of open form poetry in which the poet arranges the lines of the poem so as to create a particular shape on the page. |
| sentimentality | excessive or artificial emotion, emotion unjustified by events |
| stress/accent | the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) |
| syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences |
| triplet | 3 line stanza |
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