AP Poetry Terms Review

Poetry which is not written in a traditionalmeter

Word choice

Comparison is expressed without the use of acomparative term

An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

Narrative poem written in four-line stanzas

fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem

Fig language which endows the nonhuman with human qualities

A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work

A complete and detailed analysis of a work of literature

The arrangement of words in a sentence

A line containing six feet

The implications of a word or phrase

The use of words whose sound suggests theirmeaning

Two successive rhyming lines

Manner in which an author expresses his or herattitude

Visual, auditory, or tactile images evoked bywords of a literary work 

Instructive

A newly coined word

Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement

A form of reasoning in which two statements aremade and a conclusion is drawn 

A figure of speech using indirection to avoidoffensive bluntness

The repetition of identical or similar consonantsounds

The arrangement of materials within a poem

Something that is simultaneously itself and asign of something else

 A long serious poem on an exalted subject