6503491539 | Archetype | A collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches. Ex. Damsels in distress | 0 | |
6503503131 | Assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 1 | |
6503508027 | Aubade | A mourning love song, or a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn | 2 | |
6503529069 | Authorial Voice | Th voices or speakers used by authors when they seemingly speak for themselves in a book | 3 | |
6503532967 | Ballad Meter | A four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three, and three feet in lines two and four | 4 | |
6503550273 | Bathos | An effect of anticlimax created by unintentional lapse in mood form the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous | 5 | |
6503562626 | Bildungsroman | A novel in which an adolescent protagonist comes to adulthood by a process of experience and disillusionment, the character loses their mental innocence, previous preconceptions are false, security of childhood is destroyed | 6 | |
6503580311 | Blank Verse | Un-rhymed iambic pentameter | 7 | |
6503585601 | Cacophony | A harsh, unpleasant combinations of sounds and tones | 8 | |
6503590423 | Cadence | The melodic pattern just before the end of a sentence or phrase | 9 | |
6503602736 | Caesura | A pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse | 10 | |
6503613697 | Catalogue | The creation of long lists for poetic or rhetorical effect | 11 | |
6503629684 | Catharsis | An emotional discharge that brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcome relief from tension and anxiety | 12 | |
6503639557 | Chiasmus | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order Ex. "eat to live, not live to eat" | 13 | |
6503649205 | Chivalry | A idealized code of military and social behavior for the aristocracy in the late medieval period "Knights code of honor" | 14 |
AP Literature Pt.2 Flashcards
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