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AP Poetry TermsAP Poetry Terms

AP Poetry TermsAP Poetry Terms

•Alliteration

•Allusion

•Ambiguity

•Analogy

•Anapest

•Antecedent

•Apostrophe

•Assonance

•Attitude

•Aubade

•Ballad

•Blank verse

•Cacophony

•Carpe diem

•Conceit

•Connotation

•Consonance

•Couplet

•Dactyl

•Denotation

•Diction

•Didactic

•Elegy

•English sonnet

(Shakespearean)

•enjambment

•epigram

•Euphony

•Figurative language

•Form

•Free verse

•Heroic couplet

•Hexameter

•Hyperbole

•Iamb

•Imagery

•Interior monologue

•Internal rhyme

•Inversion

•Irony

•Italian sonnet(Petrarchan)

•Litotes

•Lyric poetry

•Metaphor

•Meter

•Metonymy

•Narrative poetry

•Slant rhyme (near)

•Occasion

•Octave

•Onomatopoeia

•Oxymoron

•Paradox

•Pastoral

•Pentameter

•Personification

•Quatrain

•Refrain

•repetition

•Rhetorical question

•rhyme

•Rhythm

•Sarcasm

•Satire

•Sestet

•Shift

•Simile

•Soliloquy

•Sonnet

•Speaker

•stanza

•Stylistic devices

•Symbols

•Synecdoche

•Syntax

•Tercet

•Terza rima

•Tetrameter

•Tone

•Trimeter

•Trochee

•villanelle