8668354537 | Sonnet | 14 line poem with several rhyme schemes | 0 | |
8668356935 | Speaker | Imaginary voice assumes by the author | 1 | |
8668359954 | Speech | Formal address written or delivered to an audience | 2 | |
8668373754 | Spenserian stanza | 9 line stanza with the scheme ababbcbcc | 3 | |
8668396309 | Sprung rhythem | The way that Gerard Hopkins uses poetic meter | 4 | |
8668420402 | Stanza | Consecutive lines in a poem that form a unit | 5 | |
8668424420 | Stream of consciousness | Depicts the random flow of emotions through a characters mind | 6 | |
8668445720 | Style | The way a writer says what they say | 7 | |
8668449476 | Suspense | Anxiety about what is going to happen next | 8 | |
8668458384 | Symbol | A thing that stands for both itself and something else | 9 | |
8668460914 | Symbolism | Advocated the use of highly personal symbols to suggest ideas. | 10 | |
8668503186 | Synecdoche | A part represents the whole | 11 | |
8668520750 | Synesthesia | Descriptions of one kind of sensations in terms of another | 12 | |
8668528501 | Tanka | 5 line Japanese poetry | 13 | |
8668538183 | Tercet | 14 |
AP English literature vocabulary Flashcards
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