AP Poetry Terms Review

The repetition of identical or similar consonantsounds

The arrangement of words in a sentence

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

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

 A long serious poem on an exalted subject

The arrangement of materials within a poem

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

Comparison is expressed without the use of acomparative term

Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement

Word choice

A complete and detailed analysis of a work of literature

A figure of speech using indirection to avoidoffensive bluntness

Something that is simultaneously itself and asign of something else

The use of words whose sound suggests theirmeaning

A newly coined word

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

Manner in which an author expresses his or herattitude

An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

Poetry which is not written in a traditionalmeter

Fig language which endows the nonhuman with human qualities

fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem

Two successive rhyming lines

The implications of a word or phrase

A line containing six feet

Instructive

Narrative poem written in four-line stanzas