AP Vocabulary Quatrain - Stanza

Quatrain Definition: A poetic stanza of four lines. Example: “Leap Before You Look” – W.H. Auden The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

Realism Definition: The practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail. Example: Walt Whitman “Leaves of Grass”.

Refrain Definition: A repeated stanza or line(s) in a poem or song. Example: In another life I would be your girl We keep all our promises be us against the world In another life I would make you stay So I don't have to say you were the one that got away The one that got away.

Rhetorical Question Definition: A question that is asked simply for stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered. Example: May I ask a rhetorical question?

Rhyme Definition: The repetition of the same or similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines. Example: The Mountain by Donna Brock The mountain Frames the sky As a shadow of an eagle flies by With could hanging at its edge A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge

Rhythm Definition: The modulation of weak and strong (stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech.

Rising Action Definition: development of actions and problems Examples: Huckleberry Finn’s adventures on the river

Sarcasm Definition: verbal irony designed to lampoon Example: dialouge

Satire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aix7tQMdJ3s Definition: work which makes fun of a person, society, culture, tendency, or event Examples: Candide, The Inferno http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aix7tQMdJ3s

Scansion Definition: graphical analysis of meter and rhyme Example: The Raven

Setting Definition: place and time in which the story takes place Example: The Brother’s Karmazov

Shakespearean Sonnet 3 4-line units 1 final 2-line unit abab cdcd efef gg ryhme schme Example: Sonnett #127

Shaped Verse Definition: poem written to resemble and object Example: adaptation of The Raven

The Raven Edger Allen Poe

Simile Definition: direct comparison using the word ‘like’ or ‘as’ Example: “I am like a grave” Dmitri Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov

Soliloquy Definition: a character’s monologue to themselves Example: Hamlet’s soliloguy

Speaker Definition: person speaking in a poem Example: A Study of Reading Habits

Stanza Definition: section of a poem organized by thought and designated by addition line breaks and usually by changes in rhyme Example: Inferno

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Vocabulary Definitions Words Examples 200 400 600 800 1000 Final Jeopardy

Define: 200 Question: What is sarcasm? Answer Verbal irony designed to lampoon Back

Define: 400 Question: What is the rising action? Answer Development of the action and problems Back

Define: 600 Question: What is a refrain? Answer A stanza or line that is repeated Back

Define: 800 Question: What is realism? Answer Realistic description of surroundings and daily life without embellishment Back

Define: 1000 Question: What is a soliloquy? Answer A character's monologue to themselves Back

Words: 200 Question: What term refers to the analysis of meter through a graphic? Answer Scansion Back

Words: 400 Question: What term refers to the time and place of a story? Answer Setting Back

Words: 600 Question: This poem contains four line paragraphs Answer Quatrain Back

Words: 800 Question: Which term refers to the emphasis of stressed and unstressed syllables in flow of speech? Answer Rhythm Back

Words: 1000 Question: What term, similar in meaning to narrator, means the person speaking in a poem? Answer Speaker Back

EX: 200 Question: The following is an example of what type of poetry? Answer Shakespearean Sonnet EX Back

EX: 400 Question: The following is an example of what? Answer Satire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R8wY7eFJYA Back

EX: 600 Question: What term is emphasized in this example: Back Question: What term is emphasized in this example: Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a big spider, And sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffet away Answer Rhyme

EX: ??? Question: What type of poem is the following? Name one element of figurative language used in it. Answer Shaped verse and simile EX Back

EX: 1000 Question: What term is emphasized in this example: “Can I ask you a question?” Answer Rhetorical question Back

Final Jeopardy Task: Create an example which uses at least three of the terms mentioned in this presentation. Answer … Say your example Back

Daily Double The Winner Of The Last Round Write Down How Much Money You Are Willing To Risk If You get the Question write you win that money If you get it wrong you Lose the money!

Example “O! from what power hast thou this powerful might, With insufficiency my heart to sway? To make me give the lie to my true sight, And swear that brightness doth not grace the day? Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill, That in the very refuse of thy deeds There is such strength and warrantise of skill, That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds? Who taught thee how to make me love thee more, The more I hear and see just cause of hate? O! though I love what others do abhor, With others thou shouldst not abhor my state: If thy unworthiness raised love in me, More worthy I to be beloved of thee.” Back

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