9869964738 | Imagery | The use of figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. | 0 | |
9869971656 | Alliteration | A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series. | 1 | |
9869979354 | Consonance | Type of Alliteration: Consonant Sounds. | 2 | |
9869979355 | Assonance | Type of Alliteration: Vowel Sounds (Usually within words). | 3 | |
9869987267 | Diction | The style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words. | 4 | |
9869989812 | Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word. | 5 | |
9869989813 | Connotation | Refers to a meaning that is implied by or associated with a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly. Words carry cultural and emotional associations or meanings. | 6 | |
9869991900 | End-stopped Line | A poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of a syntactic unit (sentence, clause or phrase); this pause can be expressed in writing as a punctuation mark such as a colon, semi-colon, period or full stop. | 7 | |
9869994508 | Slant Rhyme/Half-Rhyme | A rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match. | 8 | |
9869994509 | Internal Rhyme | Metrical line in which middle words and end words rhyme with each other. It is also called middle rhyme, since it comes in the middle of lines ("Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary") | 9 |
AP Literature and Comp Vocab 1 Flashcards
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