AP English 12 Poetry Terms Review Part 2 (20 terms)

A group of lines whose pattern gets repeated in poetry; like a paragraph in prose.

The repetition of consonant sounds within words (rather than at their beginnings).

A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not.

The main idea of a work; the central idea

The repeated use of vowel sounds

An act or instance of placing close together or side by side esp. for comparison or contrast

Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement

The representation through language of sense experience

Literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about change.

Repeated syntactical structure

Refers to the grating of incompatible sounds

The act of indirectly or directly describing the qualities of someone or something

To say or write something that suggest and implies but never says directly or clearly.

The writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject; the emotional coloring or a work

The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

When sounds blend harmoniously

Ordinary writing; writing that isn't poerty

The basic techniques of each genre of literature

Using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds