Poetry AP Literature Review

Poetry characterized by highly complex, philosophical ideas, paradox and extended metaphors.

Understatement is the opposite of

The shift in an Italian sonnet is known as the:

A poem set at dawn which often bids farewell to a lover or ideal

"Goodbye My Love, I bid you adieu, as I tiptoe through the early morning dew"

A poem that laments the dead or a loss-

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”

"Be with me Beauty, for the fire is dying." Keats

antecedent

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

A rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter is a _______________.

Highly structured poem: six stanzas-five tercets, a quatrain and repeating first and third line

"Get your butt over here" is an example of

A type of poem which extols the virtues of nature or rustic life.

How now brown cow is an example of:

Scansion

Quality of being intentionally unclear.

Words spoken by an author intended to be heard by the audience but not other characters:

A rhetorical question:

A _____________ is usually paired with an octave to make a Petrarchan sonnet.

A six line stanza is a:

"He was not averse to taking a drink" and "she was no saint" are examples of

The metrical foot that echoes the sound of life-a heartbeat.

Short non-narrative poem characterized by personal feelings and musicality such as an ode.

A simple narrative poem often with dialogue, in quatrains, with a rhyme scheme of abcb

figure of speech- replaces the name of something with a word closely associated with it

One might write a/an ________________for Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, or your high school career.

Like the downward smoke, the slender stream/Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem