AP Poetry Terms (last half)

Denotation is the dictionary definition of a word.

The narrator is not a character in the story but tells the story from the perspective of one of the characters.

what do we call the voice that talks to the reader in a poem as the narrator does in a work of fiction?

a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect

some object or action that represents more beyond itself

"I wandered lonely as a cloud" is a metaphor.

the regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables

The author or narrator's distinctive style or manner of expression is called voice.

poetry that tells a story, has characters, settings, and plots

which of the following is a tercet?

What is a stanza of four lines called?

Jumbo shrimp, pretty ugly, awfully good are examples of...

when the pronoun I is used in a text

Which of the following is a paradox?

The absence of conjunctions, which speeds up the pacing of a sentence, is called asyndeton.

the placement of two concepts, characters, ideas, or places near or next to each for comparison or contrast.

a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry

This is an example of parallel structure: I do not enjoy thinking or running.

the central idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work presenting a comment about life to the reader.

An iamb can also be called a foot and one metrical unit

enjambment is the running over of a line or thought into the next of verse

the person telling the story isn't one of the characters. He or she is an outside observer describing what can be sensed

A grouping of two or more lines within a poem is called a stanza

Which of the following is personification?

As a tornado aproaches, a student says, "It's not the best weather today," is an example of a litote.