AP Literature Poetry Terms Review

a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

poems with specific forms or rules are called ______ __________.

"My love as deep as a well."  Which of the following best describes this? 

Which of these is NOT a way that a poet can create melody and flow?

the most basic poem is a/an____

A six line stanza

What figure of speech is most used by Shakespeare in this speech of Romeo's?

"My hand will rather the seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." His guilt could change ocean's color.

Meter is counted in____.

The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginnings of words.

When John Donne compares his love for his wife to the legs of a mathematical compass, he uses

a poem that tells a story

You cannot hear the pear.  What kind of rhyme?

A sonnet with 14 lines and alternating rhyme with 4 quatrains and a couplet

"They went and told the preacher and the preacher tolled the bell."  Which literary device?

19 line French poem grouped into 6 stanzas

unrhymed iambic pentameter

meter is determining____ and _______

pleasant sounding words

line of poetry that does have end punctuation

"I got a new set of wheels!"  The teen who said this used what literary device?

"To err is human, to forgive divine."  

a three line stanza

" ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/ Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;"

The antelope ate a cantaloupe.  What type of rhyme?

speaking to someone or something not there

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary," What kind of rhyme? 

poem that mourns the death or loss of someone or something

"Papa Above! Regard a Mouse!"   This line from Dickinson is a good example of

"Imprison me, for I/ Except you enthrall me, never shall be free." In "Holy Sonnet" Donne uses (CHOOSE TWO)

Writing that seeks to arouse the reader's disapproval through ridicule.

a poem that doesn't adhere to specific rules

repetition of conjunctions at the beginning of a line

"I have seen roses damasked, red and white,And in some perfumes there is more delight." Shakespeare uses ______ rhyme.

consist of 14 lines and a sestet and an octave and a prescribed rhyming pattern

Fourteen lines in iambic pentameter....

Continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next.

_____is type of lyric poem, which in turn is a poem that expresses emotions, usually written in the first person

He clutched his chest to keep the life from spilling.

2 lines that rhyme