8243550460 | Pastoral | a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life. | ![]() | 0 |
8243550501 | Elegy | a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. | ![]() | 1 |
8243556049 | Hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | ![]() | 2 |
8243556050 | Dramatic monologue | a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events. | ![]() | 3 |
8243560173 | Slant rhyme | a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match. | ![]() | 4 |
8243573839 | Iambic pentameter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable | ![]() | 5 |
8243577983 | Polysyndeton | a literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed. | ![]() | 6 |
8243582758 | Couplet | two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. | ![]() | 7 |
8243592739 | Elizabethan sonnet | a type of sonnet much used by Shakespeare, written in iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. | ![]() | 8 |
8243596525 | Trochaic pentameter | a literary device that can be defined as a line in verse or poetry that has five strong metrical feet or beats. | 9 | |
8243616204 | Trochaic tetrameter | is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line of four trochaic feet | ![]() | 10 |
8243620175 | Iambic tetrameter | is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of four iambic feet. | ![]() | 11 |
8243620176 | Exact rhyme | is rhyming two words in which both the consonant sounds and vowel sounds match to create a rhyme. | ![]() | 12 |
8243625007 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form | ![]() | 13 |
AP Literature Terms #2 Flashcards
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