AP Poetry Terms Mixed Metaphor to Volta

Ex. "I smell a rat and I will nip him in the bud"

ex. “When well-appareled April on the heel Of limping winter treads.”

ex."All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players"

Ex. “The full green hills are round and soft as breasts.”

shifts from the problem or question to its solution in a sonnet

5 sets of poetic feet

Ex. open secret

analysis of meter

poem that tells a story

six-lined stanza

criticism hidden in praise

statement about the human condition revealed in a work

ex "its sculptor well stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked [made] them"

occurs between the octave and sestet in Petrarchan version

ex. “A happy life depends on a liver”

poetry about country life

Ex. "The woods are getting ready to sleep—they are not yet asleep but they are disrobing"

ex. “Only then did he find himself rolling head over heels like a shot rabbit.”

Ex. "the murmuring of innumerable bees"

criticizing society through humor or irony

fourteen-lined poem

repeated lines at intervals in a poem

Ex. “ she sat there paler and whiter than anyone in the vast ocean of anxious faces about her.”

Ex. " the serpent Satanas,That hath in Jews' heart his wasps nest,Up swelled, and said"

ex."at my death Thy Son / Shall shine as he shines now"

author's attitude toward a work

A _____hides a latent truth

known as "the turn"