Poetry Terms

AP Lit Poetry Terms Test




1. theme

2. paraphrase

3. speaker

4. occasion

5. purpose

6. denotation

7. connotation

8. imagery

9. metaphor

10. simile

11. personification

12. apostrophe

13. synecdoche

14. metonymy

15. symbol

16. allegory

17. paradox

18. hyperbole

19. understatement

20. verbal irony

21. sarcasm

22. satire

23. dramatic irony

24. irony of situation

25. allusion

26. tone

27. alliteration

28. assonance

29. consonance

30. rhyme

31. masculine rhyme

32. feminine rhyme

33. internal rhyme

34. end rhyme

35. approximate rhyme



















36. rhythm

37. meter

38. verse

39. stanza

40. scansion

41. free verse

42. blank verse

43. end-stopped line

44. run-on line

45. onomatopoeia

46. euphony

47. cacophony

48. limerick

49. Italian sonnet

50. English sonnet

51. haiku

52. terza rima

53. sentimentality

54. rhetorical poetry

55. didactic poetry