9974074736 | syllabic verse | Verse measured by the number of syllables rather than the number of feet per line. | ![]() | 0 |
9974074737 | symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else | ![]() | 1 |
9974077499 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 2 | |
9974080631 | tercet | 3 line stanza | 3 | |
9974083238 | terza rima | a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc. | ![]() | 4 |
9974083241 | theme | Central idea of a work of literature | ![]() | 5 |
9974086614 | tone | Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character | ![]() | 6 |
9974086615 | tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character | ![]() | 7 |
9974092024 | understandment | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis | 8 | |
9974092025 | verse | A single line of poetry writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme | ![]() | 9 |
9974095583 | vilanelle | a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. | 10 | |
9974109561 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") | ![]() | 11 |
AP Literature quiz 6 Basic Terms Flashcards
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