AP Poetry Terms
Alliteration Allusion Ambiguity Analogy Anapest Antecedent Apostrophe Assonance Attitude Aubade Ballad Blank verse Cacophony Carpe diem Conceit Connotation Consonance Couplet Dactyl Denotation Diction Didactic Elegy English sonnet (Shakespearean) enjambment epigram
Internal rhyme Inversion Irony Italian sonnet (Petrarchan) Litotes Lyric poetry Metaphor Meter Metonymy Narrative poetry Slant rhyme (near) Euphony Figurative language Form Free verse Heroic couplet Hexameter Hyperbole Iamb Imagery Interior monologue
Occasion Octave Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Paradox Pastoral Pentameter Personification Quatrain Refrain repetition Rhetorical question rhyme Rhythm Sarcasm Satire Sestet Shift Simile Soliloquy Sonnet Speaker stanza
Stylistic devices Symbols Synecdoche Syntax Tercet Terza rima Tetrameter Tone Trimeter Trochee villanelle