AP Vocabulary Poetry Huxford

The person, not necessarily the author, who is the voice of a poem.

The modulation of weak and strong (stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech

The analysis of a verse to show its meter

A pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than metrical patterns

Metrical foot that consists of two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable.

The repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines.

A poem written about or for a specific occasion, public or private.

A narrative poem that is, or originally was, meant to be sung.

A metrical foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed

Poem that celebrates, in a continuous narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines

Poems meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre; now any short poem with intense emotion

A metrical foot that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

A poetic stanza of four lines

A sonnet that divides the poem into one section of 8 lines and a second section of 6 lines.

Poetry characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, & non-rhyming lines.

Two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection.

Sonnet form that divides the poem into three units of 4 lines each and a final unit of 2 lines

A repeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song.

The verse form that most resembles common speech--unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter

A section of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing. i.e. couplet--2 lines, Octave--8 lines

The more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry