4369611246 | allegory | deliberate correlation to historical reference or character archetypes | 0 | |
4369615584 | ambiguity | both | 1 | |
4369615585 | apostrophe | addressing an absent entity | 2 | |
4369619346 | connotation | associated meanings to words | 3 | |
4369622731 | convention | typical, trope | 4 | |
4369622732 | denotation | non-associated meanings to words | 5 | |
4369635303 | didactic | preach-y, fable-y | 6 | |
4369638205 | digression | to go off topic | 7 | |
4369638206 | epigram | a quote from a source in a source | 8 | |
4369640746 | euphemism | positive expression of something not so nice | 9 | |
4369643004 | eulogy | good words | 10 | |
4369643005 | grotesque | nasty, gross, dark | 11 | |
4369644656 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 12 | |
4369644657 | jargon | slang, buzzwords, vocabulary typically associated with a niche of people | 13 | |
4369649863 | literal | really, actually occuring | 14 | |
4369659653 | lyrical | rhythmic, poetic, with emotion | 15 | |
4369665075 | oxymoron | combined opposite | 16 | |
4369665076 | parable | story that teaches a lesson (ex Bible) | 17 | |
4369666995 | paradox | contradiction that conveys a truth | 18 | |
4369669340 | parody | making fun of something | 19 | |
4369669341 | personification | inanimate things with qualities of a human | 20 | |
4369674983 | reliability | trusting the narrator's words | 21 | |
4369677572 | rhetorical question | designed to make a good point, has one answer | 22 | |
4369681915 | soliloquy | single speaker | 23 | |
4369681916 | stereotype | oversimplified description of something | 24 | |
4369697432 | syllogism | 3 part logical structure | 25 | |
4369712814 | thesis | main statement | 26 | |
4369712853 | alliteration | repetition of the same sound (consonants) | 27 | |
4369727468 | assonance | repetition of vowel sound | 28 | |
4369736074 | ballad meter | 8-6-8-6 meter (syllables) | 29 | |
4369741568 | dactyl | patterns of three | 30 | |
4369743666 | end stopped | hard stop at the end of a rhyme (period, semicolon) | 31 | |
4369747514 | free verse | no regular pattern | 32 | |
4369747515 | heroic couplet | two lines that rhyme | 33 | |
4369749671 | hexameter | twelve syllables | 34 | |
4369751283 | iamb | unstressed followed by stressed | 35 | |
4369752815 | internal rhyme | rhyme in same line | 36 | |
4369765216 | onomatopoeia | words to describe a sound effect | 37 | |
4369765217 | rhyme royal | 7 line stanzas of iambic pentameter | 38 | |
4369768001 | sonnet | 14 line poem with various rhyme schemes | 39 | |
4369870297 | stanza | verse in a poem | 40 | |
4369870298 | terza rima | lines in pairs of 3 | 41 | |
4369872546 | tetrameter | 8 syllables | 42 | |
4369876066 | antecedent | before a pronoun | 43 | |
4369877939 | clause | subject-verb pairing | 44 | |
4369880087 | ellipsis | leaving out words | 45 | |
4369880088 | imperative | authoritative command | 46 | |
4369882523 | modify | when one word relates to another one | 47 | |
4369885488 | parallel structure | repetition of a grammatical form | 48 | |
4369887091 | periodic structure | main clause is at end of sentence | 49 | |
4369894286 | syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences | 50 |
AP Literature Vocab Flashcards
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