Ap Lit Vocab Test 11-26-18

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Alliteration

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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Anapest

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a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable

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Approximate rhyme/slant rhyme

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repetition of the same sound in two or more words or phrases

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Assonance

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the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

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Ballad meter

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four-line stanzas usually rhyming abcb, with the first and third lines carrying four accented syllables and the second and fourth carrying three

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Blank verse

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verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

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Consonance

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the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity

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Couplet

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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

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Dactyl

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a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables

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End rhyme

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when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same

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End-stopped line

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A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break

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Enjambment

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the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

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English sonnet/Shakespearean sonnet

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written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg

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Feminine rhyme

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a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables

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Foot

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a group of syllables constituting a metrical unit

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Free verse

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

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Half rhyme

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rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match

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Heroic couplet

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a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters

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Iamb

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a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable

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Iambic pentameter

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a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable

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Internal rhyme

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a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

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Italian sonnet/Petrarchan sonnet

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a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd

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Masculine rhyme

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a rhyme of final stressed syllables

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Meter

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the rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line

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Octave

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a poem or stanza of eight lines; an octet

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Pentameter

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a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet

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Perfect rhyme

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rhyme in which different consonants are followed by identical vowel and consonant sounds

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Quatrain

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a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes

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Refrain

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a repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse

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Rhyme

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correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry

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Scansion

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the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm.the rhythm of a line of verse.

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Sestet

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the last six lines of a sonnet

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Spondee

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a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables

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Stanza

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a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse

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Syntax

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the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language

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Terza rima

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an arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba bcb cdc, etc.

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Tetrameter

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a verse of four measures

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Trimeter

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a line of verse consisting of three metrical feet

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Trochaic meter

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a line of poetry composed of trochees

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Trochee

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a basic metrical unit called a foot consisting of two syllables